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Nine trends that will shape work in 2023 and beyond
Emily Rose McRae, Peter Aykens, Kaelyn Lowmaster, and Jonah Shepp, Harvard Business ReviewLast year was another tumultuous year in the workplace, with continued high employee turnover rates, evolving return-to-office policies, inflation, and more. In 2023, amid a looming economic downturn, organizations will continue to face significant challenges — and how they respond could determine whether they are...
regulation
You are not your anxiety
Kelsey Alpaio, Harvard Business ReviewLearning how to manage stress, anxiety, and other mental health challenges takes time. These videos are meant to help you define some mental health terms you should be familiar with and provide you with guidance on how to find relief.
managing yourself
How great leaders communicate
Carmine Gallo, Harvard Business ReviewTransformational leaders are exceptional communicators. In this piece, the author outlines four communication strategies to help motivate and inspire your team: 1) Use short words to talk about hard things. 2) Choose sticky metaphors to reinforce key concepts. 3) Humanize data to create value. 4). Make mission your...
leadership communications
adaptive leadership
How Companies Can Navigate Today’s Geopolitical Risks
David S. Lee and Brad Glosserman, Harvard Business ReviewThe rules of international business have changed. To navigate this new paradigm, companies need to understand four important trends: 1) Interdependence between countries has grown and has created new risks, 2) geopolitical competition between the West and China is growing, 3) this geopolitical competition is...
socio political environment
What a Mature CSR Team Looks Like
Christopher Wickert, David Risi, and Tommaso Ramus, Harvard Business ReviewAs climate change, social inequities, and other critical issues grow ever more urgent, many companies have built dedicated departments focused on corporate social responsibility (CSR).
corporate responsibility
csr
socio political environment
How can business prepare for the next disaster?
Lizzie O’leary and Ayesha Hazarika, Strategy+Business a pwc publication, 17 November 2022Cyberattacks, supply chain disruptions, hurricanes, and pandemics: the list of things that can go wrong for a company is long, and it is growing. So, how can business prepare for the unknown?
socio political environment
4 Ways Businesses Can Help Uphold Democracy
Vincent Pons, Harvard Business ReviewBusinesses need political stability to thrive, and so when democracy is jammed, companies can feel threatened. But few would see business as a solution to political system woes; to the contrary, business is most often depicted as a corrupting influence, attempting to tilt the scale towards particular candidates or...
socio political environment
Building stakeholder trust in measures of sustainable performance
Matthew Falconer and Cécile Saint-Martin, Strategy+BusinessInvestors say they value a company’s data on sustainability almost as much as they value its financial data. They need to be able to trust it as much, too.
adaptive leadership
socio political environment
stakeholder
Why stakeholder capitalism has taken the spotlight
Lizzie O’Leary, Strategy+Business, 08 November 2022If you think the CEO agenda is jam-packed now, consider this: Richard Oldfield, PwC’s global markets leader, says that in a world in which trust is lacking, particularly in government, “employees are expecting business leaders to actually fill that trust gap, and they expect them to stand up for the ethical and...
stakeholder
socio political environment
Layoffs Are Painful. But You Can Communicate Them Compassionately.
Laurie Tennant, Harvard Business ReviewExecutives and managers too often underestimate the importance of clear, consistent communications as part of a reduction in force (RIF). Without an effective communications plan that begins well in advance, an RIF can result in long-term damage to the company’s reputation and to the well-being of both dismissed...
socio political environment
reputation
leadership communications