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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Because of this, CEOs are leaving a tremendous amount of employee potential talent and contributions on the table. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. A global IBM study found that 33% of CEOs had engineering degrees and another 15% had finance degrees. We know everything.

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The 5 Key Corporate Sustainability Trends in 2023

Comatch

A Global Shift Toward Sustainable Finance. Right now, more than 80% of the world’s largest companies are reporting on ESG metrics and performance, and I expect to see that number rise. . The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (the “ SFDR ”) came into force in December 2019 and began to apply across the EU from March 2021.

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The 5 Key Corporate Sustainability Trends in 2022

Comatch

A Global Shift Toward Sustainable Finance. Right now, more than 80% of the world’s largest companies are reporting on ESG metrics and performance, and I expect to see that number rise. . The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (the “ SFDR ”) came into force in December 2019 and began to apply across the EU from March 2021.

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How to Fix the Most Soul-Crushing Meetings

Harvard Business

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan. The right composition and metrics.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

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The Challenge of Activation

Kates Kesler

The business targets and processes they co-manage, and the nature of talent that staff these new roles, are all part of bringing global organization to life. Leaders do not know how and are not motivated to work in a matrix – metrics and reward systems continue to reinforce lack of enterprise thinking.

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What the Data Tells Us About Immigrant Executives in the U.S.

Harvard Business

— for example the study of the ethnic composition of boards in corporate America by Richie Zweigenhaft — studies of immigrant leadership talent are still scarce. This lack of study is particularly troubling given that nearly 60% of American companies are facing leadership talent shortages that are impeding their performance.

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