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When Asking Too Many Questions Undermines Your Leadership

Luis Velasquez, Harvard Business Review

Although it’s widely accepted that good leaders are good learners, a learning mentality can also have a darker side. If not carefully managed, it might lead to a perception of decreased effectiveness, less expertise, and lower efficiency.

workplace leadership communications

It’s Time to Change How ESG Is Measured

Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun, and Quoc Nguyen, Harvard Business Review

Estimates suggest ESG investing could surpass $50 trillion by 2025, as investors look for opportunities for their investment capital to have broader social impact. However, research suggests that ESG ratings suffer from a measurement trap that occurs when a metric used as part of the rating is systematically biased...

corporate responsibility

The Most Common DEI Practices Actually Undermine Diversity

Traci Sitzmann, Shoshana Schwartz, and Mary Lee Stansifer, Harvard Business Review

While companies say they champion diversity, there are glaring disparities in diverse representation within managerial ranks. Despite not working well for attaining diverse representation, diversity training is widely used in organisations.

workplace

Away win: how relocations are making an unlikely comeback

Sam Forsdick, Raconteur

At a time when millions of people can work remotely from virtually anywhere with a broadband connection, the number of companies looking to move employees is on the rise.

workplace

The tussle over TikTok isn’t just geopolitics

Carol Soon, Chew Han Ei and Ann Mak, CNA

The ongoing technological tussle between the US and China reflects a broader trend. Increasingly, countries are implementing unilateral policies and initiatives to regulate the internet and digital sphere, in a bid to safeguard their autonomy and control of the internet.

socio political environment cybersecurity

What’s with the rise of “fact-based journalism”?

Philip M. Napoli and Asa Royal, Niemanlab

To describe one form of journalism as ‘fact-based’ is to tacitly acknowledge that there is also such a thing as ‘non-fact-based journalism.’ And there isn’t.

media relations

3 Ways to Clearly Communicate Your Company’s Strategy

Constantinos C. Markides and Andrew MacLennan, Harvard Business Review

For all the communication around strategy, we know that leaders at many companies don’t provide the necessary context for employees to understand what the words and sentences in a strategy statement actually mean.

workplace communication

Scarlett Johansson’s AI row has echoes of Silicon Valley’s bad old days

Zoe Kleinman, BBC News

Scarlett Johansson's clash with OpenAI over the use of her voice echoes back to the macho Silicon Valley giants of old.

ai

Climate transition plans under the spotlight

Kulja Coulston, Australian Institute of Company Directors

In the most recent AGM season, corporate climate transitions were thrust into the spotlight when Woodside Energy’s shareholders rejected the company’s Climate Transition Action Plan. The advisory vote’s defeat raised the important question: What makes for a 'credible' company transition?

governance stakeholder

What employers are getting wrong about skills-based hiring

Sam Forsdick, Raconteur

Increasingly, companies are prioritising skills over experience when assessing candidates but results show that simply removing degree requirements isn’t sufficient

workplace