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Moving the needle on diversity, equity, and inclusion
HBR IdeaCast, Harvard Business Review, 03 August 2021In this episode of HBR IdeaCast, Shelly McNamara, head of equality and inclusion at Procter & Gamble, explains practical ways in which managers can build truly inclusive work environments. She also discusses how organisations can develop their policies and practices to ensure all employees feel like they can be their authentic...
adaptive leadership
Why younger workers want hybrid work the most
Lexi McMenamin, BBC, 03 August 2021The youngest employees in the workforce are being pulled in two different directions. On one hand, Gen Z leads the pack: they’re digital natives who seamlessly understand new productivity tools and processes. However, as some workers push to stay entirely remote for good, Gen Z is not leading the charge - instead, they’re among those looking...
socio political environment
stakeholder
The post-pandemic board agenda: redefining corporate resilience
Celia Huber, Frithjoh Lund & Nina Spielmann, McKinsey & Company, 03 August 2021As boards move beyond crisis management and towards a COVID-19 recovery, survey results suggest that specific risks and organisational issues are increasingly top of mind. In the latest McKinsey Global Survey of more than 800 board directors and executives, the most adaptable boards are prioritising the types of risks that test a company’s...
adaptive leadership
measurement
The power of everyday routines to boost your work life
This Working Life Podcast, ABC, 02 August 2021This episode of This Working Life explores why we need routines and rituals, how to create them, and how they can improve your work ethic, output and satisfaction...
socio political environment
Sky News Australia banned from YouTube for seven days over COVID-19 misinformation
Amanda Meade, The Guardian, 01 August 2021Sky News Australia has been banned from uploading content to YouTube for seven days after violating its medical misinformation policies by posting numerous videos which denied the existence of COVID-19, or encouraged people to use hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. The YouTube channel has grown in two years from 70,000 subscribers to 1.85...
socio political environment
More US companies tie CEO pay to diversity metrics
Ross Kerber, Reuters, 28 July 2021A new study finds corporate diversity has become the most common type of sustainability metric used to inform executive pay as companies look to increase the share of women and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in their workforces. Among 61 metrics used by Fortune 100 companies to tie executive pay to environmental,...
socio political environment
New global survey finds COVID-19 is intensifying sustainable development challenges, but leading businesses are stepping up
Globescan, 28 July 2021New research from GlobeScan and the SustainAbility Institute by ERM finds that 40 per cent of sustainability experts believe the pandemic will increase poverty and inequality, with one-third believing COVID-19 will lead to more attention on the environment. Experts are more optimistic that the pandemic will not derail action...
measurement
socio political environment
How tech won the pandemic and now may never lose
David Streitfeld, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July 2021Big tech continues to flourish during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the combined stock market valuation of Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook totalling more than $10 trillion – roughly the size of the entire U.S. stock market in 2002. Perhaps the only threat to big tech's triumph now is government...
socio political environment
The truth behind corporate climate pledges
Jocelyn Timperley, The Guardian, 26 July 2021Facing a reckoning over their contribution to the climate emergency, companies are coming out with a record number of pledges. More Fortune 500 companies have adopted emissions targets and one in five have science-based targets. At least one fifth of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies have now made some kind of “net zero” pledge to...
corporate reputation
corporate narrative
socio political environment
Wake me up in 2022: working through uncertainty fatigue
This Working Life Podcast, ABC, 26 July 2021This episode of the This Working Life podcast explores how to work through the overwhelming and heavy feelings that come with yet another COVID-19-related lockdown for three Australian cities. Psychologist Dr Shanta Dey from the University of Sydney Business School, and leadership expert and coach Julia Steel share what they have...
socio political environment