What we all can learn from the great sports captains in history, when executives say they expect workers to be back in the office, and more.
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Sports captains as models for what managers should be doing now
“I’ve only seen one communication model that works,” explains sports writer and leadership consultant Sam Walker.
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Book Briefing: ‘Work: A Deep History’ by James Suzman
“For 95% of our species’ history, work did not occupy anything like the hallowed place in people’s lives that it does now,” recounts Suzman. Why did that change?
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Reset: Rethinking political spending, whistle blowing from home, air travel virus tests
Should companies be giving money to politicians at all? And if they do so, what are the principles they should follow?
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A close look at PayPal’s employee financial wellness initiative
PayPal launched an effort to improve its employees’ financial health, and it’s showing results.
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Reset: How to boost financial health, business and democracy, virtual CES
A briefing on PayPal’s pioneering employee financial wellness plan, the response of business to the Capitol attack, and more.
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Book Briefing: ‘Leadership in Turbulent Times’ by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Goodwin focuses in Leadership on the seminal trials of four US presidents, relevant to our own moment in history.
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Reset: What people are paid, female Fortune 500 CEOs, bonus trends
We all should be dissatisfied with the status quo around compensation. From the perspective of 2020, this might seem disruptive, or radical. But future generations will wonder what took us so long to address it. Now that companies are saying they care about “stakeholders,” we should hold them, and ourselves, accountable for acting on it by paying fairly for work.
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Middle managers and CEOs are key to pursuing racial equity at work
Lata Reddy is a former civil rights attorney who oversees DEI, philanthropy, and impact investing at Prudential.
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Reset: ‘You’re not going to charity your way out of this,’ exit interviews, airfare discounts
Is the momentum for racial equity that built over 2020 now in danger of flagging? Michael McAfee, president and CEO of PolicyLink, addresses the concerns.