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How HR Lost Employees’ Trust — and How to Get It Back
Joseph Grenny and Derek Cullimore, Harvard Business ReviewWhen employees have concerns, whether it’s an issue with a toxic manager or uncivil behavior from someone else on their team, they aren’t turning to HR, according to a new study.
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Countering an Authoritarian Overhaul of the Internet
Adrian Shahbaz Allie Funk Kian Vesteinsson, Freedom HouseGlobal internet freedom declined for the 12th consecutive year. The sharpest downgrades were documented in Russia, Myanmar, Sudan, and Libya. Following the Russian military’s illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin dramatically intensified its ongoing efforts to suppress domestic dissent and...
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Why You Should Make Friends at Work
Lynda Gratton, MITSloanOne of the crucial elements of personal resilience is friendship. It helps if we have a trusted confidant at our...
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In a Volatile World, Your Strategy Must Be Flexible
Michael Mankins, Harvard Business ReviewAlthough it sounds cliché, the world really is a more volatile place than it used to be. That’s because the drivers of uncertainty are more intense — there are more and more change vectors affecting outcomes and these vectors are more and more inter-related. The range of likely outcomes five and 10 years has grown...
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In the era for social responsibility, corporate brands need a higher purpose with Melanie McMillan
Very Public Affairs Podcast, The Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 05 October 2022In this episode of Very Public Affairs, The Centre’s Executive Director Wayne Burns talks with the Centre’s Senior Associate and reputation brand doctor, Melanie McMillan about stewarding the corporate brand in an era where this is so much focus on ESG, and how this manifests itself in corporate strategy....
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Corporate Australia just received a glowing profit report card, but the outlook is not as rosy
Rachel Pupazzoni, ABC, 12 September 2022Corporate Australia just received a glowing profit report card, but the outlook is not as rosy...
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How to build geopolitical resilience amid a fragmenting global order
Andrew Grant, Ziad Haider, and Jean-Christophe Mieszala, MckinseyOrganizations need to strategically invest in capabilities, people, processes, structures, and technology to navigate the risks arising from an evolving and fraught geopolitical landscape.
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Airfare increase the highest in a decade and flights fuller than ever, ACCC report warns
Jade Toomey, ABC, 07 September 2022The cost of an an airfare has increased by more than half since April, the country's consumer watchdog has warned...
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The new work–life balance
Adam Bryant, Strategy+BusinessThe phrase seems increasingly outdated, given how much our work and our lives are now intertwined. It’s time for a new framework.
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Johnson & Johnson will discontinue talc-based baby powder in 2023
Melissa Maykin, ABC, 14 August 2022Johnson & Johnson has announced it will stop selling talc-based baby powder in 2023, as it transitions its popular, but controversial, global product to a cornstarch base. The move comes two years after it ended US sales due to thousands of consumer safety...
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