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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...
socio political environment
Don’t Focus on Your Job at the Expense of Your Career
Dorie Clark, Harvard Business ReviewThe gap between what we have to do today and where we see ourselves in the future can be vexing. We’d like to advance toward our goals, but we feel dragged down by responsibilities that seem banal or off-target for our eventual vision. In this piece, the author offers four strategies you can try so that you can...
leadership communications
career
Why companies aren’t living up to their climate pledges
John Goddard, Harvard Business ReviewOrganisations are increasingly making firm commitments to sustainability. However, new research conducted by L.E.K. Consulting suggests many of these organizations are struggling to deliver on their commitments. Setting and balancing priorities is the main...
socio political environment
Ministry of common sense
Maria Tickle and Lisa Leong, ABC Radio NationalHow to cut through the red tape to bring common sense back into your workplace in this ABC radio broadcast featuring brand and culture transformation expert Martin Lindstrom.
leadership communications
2022 Corporate Public Affairs Oration
2022 Corporate Public Affairs Oration delivered by Professor Marcia Langton AO.
socio political environment
How leaders can escape their echo chambers
Diana Smith, Harvard Business ReviewWhile leaders are broadly aware of the importance of creating a psychologically safe culture to encourage candor, they are less cognizant of how subtle leadership behaviors can get in the way of people speaking up. In this article, the author shares behaviors that leaders might not realize shut down dissenting...
executive education
What is your crisis quotient?
Adam BryantA new metric can help identify potential leaders who have what it takes to thrive in times of disruption...
crisis management
executive education
adaptive leadership
How to write concisely
Harvard Business Review, Jane RosenzweigIt’s not the end of the world if you use an unnecessary word now and then, write the occasional overlapping sentence, or tell us what you’re doing in a sentence before you do it. But the extra words add up. In this article, the author offers advice for how to make your writing shorter and...
executive education
15 key considerations for businesses when commenting on political or social matters
Forbes Agency Council, ForbesPolitics and social issues can be thorny subjects, especially if a company doesn't understand where its audience's sentiments lie. A wrong step could mean a public relations disaster of epic proportions....
socio political environment
Stewarding an international stakeholder brand in a regional or national market with Antonia Sanda and Guy Matthews
Very Public Affairs Podcast, The Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 09 June 2022In this episode of the Very Public Affairs Podcast, Antonia Sanda, Director, Communications APAC at Deel, and Guy Matthews, Managing Director, Head of Corporate Public Affairs at Citi, are in conversation with the Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns to discuss the challenges within the corporate...
socio political environment