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The TikTok issue is one of the biggest damned if you do, damned if you don’t problems on America’s agenda. On April 14, 2023, nearly a year ago, Montana became the first state to try to ban TikTok, but a US District Judge put a temporary halt to the ban, saying it “oversteps state power,”
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Making bad hiring decisions is incredibly costly. Making hiring decisions in which a leader chosen who doesn’t uphold the organization’s values or is unethical is even more costly. At stake is the organization’s reputation, customer trust, and shareholder value. Selecting leaders who will promote an organization’s values or ethics is essential as more of today’s
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Let’s face it, the workplace landscape these days is nothing short of rocky. Organisations are wrestling with all sorts of employee pressures from every angle. How do you keep employees truly engaged and motivated? What’s the secret sauce for crafting an Employee Value Proposition that makes top talent sit up and take notice? And let’s
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OpenAI has announced significant changes to its board of directors, marking a pivotal moment in the organization’s leadership landscape. Notably, former CEO Sam Altman will be rejoining the board after several months of absence alongside three distinguished new members: Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, and Fidji Simo. Desmond-Hellmann, renowned for her leadership at the Bill and
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With today’s long fundraising cycles and low chances of closing a round, founders of innovative technology startups who are frustrated by all the rejection may be inclined to dreams of cashing out. Given the massive drop in venture capital exits in the last two years, founders should set exit fantasies aside and instead use this
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What will the future of computers look like? Can we anticipate these futuristic products today? The answer is actually yes. Information analysis often employs a window observation method to predict future trends. This year, such a “window” comes from Samsung. On January 17, the South Korean tech giant officially hosted its annual flagship product launch
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Workforce wellbeing, which declined this past year, is in need of an overhaul to make real progress. How its commonly approached now is as a separate initiative or Corporate Wellness program. These include one-off events such as yoga classes, meditation apps, lunch n’ learns, or trainings. As the CEO of an Executive Coaching + Wellbeing
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During Apple’s recent meeting with its shareholders, CEO Tim Cook unveiled the company’s forthcoming plans to delve deeper into the realm of generative artificial intelligence later this year. Cook underscored Apple’s substantial investment in this domain, underscoring the transformative potential of generative AI in bolstering user productivity and problem-solving capabilities. Even though Apple has often
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Recently, after giving a keynote at a major conference about The New Political Capitalism I was asked a question: “But business has always had a political dimension. So, what has changed?” Good question. The answer – almost everything has changed. What a business is for? The first thing that has changed is that the Milton
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Accelerating demand for metals and minerals driven by the energy transition revolution. The outlook is clear. The demand for critical metals and minerals is advancing dramatically as the energy transition gathers momentum globally. Rare metals and minerals such as lithium, copper, nickel, cobalt, and graphite are some of the essential components in many clean energy
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When a new year begins, we think of it as a fresh start. It’s when we claim we will break negative habits, replace them with positive ones, and set goals for the year. Sixty days (or what seems like 5 minutes) later, we may be off track. On one hand, we still have ten months
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Serving on dozens of boards – both for-profit and non-profit – over three decades has provided me a unique window into organizational governance. I have seen a lot of boards succeed and many that didn’t. Boards play an invaluable governance role for organizations but often underperform at their job. Frequently, board members serve either for
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High employee turnover rates have an enormous, widespread economic impact. Companies spend excessive time, effort, and money on recruiting and training new employees, only to see them move on, fail to meet expectations, or perform well below their potential. Low morale, the loss of institutional knowledge and inexperienced employees result in reduced productivity. A recent
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On February 13th, 2024, Toby Williams, the President and co-CEO of Paylocity Holding Corp (NASDAQ: PCTY), completed a transaction involving 8,000 shares of the company’s stock. This action, documented with the SEC, offers detailed insight into recent company developments. On the day of the aforementioned sale, Paylocity Holding Corp shares were valued at $169.15, resulting
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CEO peer advisory groups and forums convene to help their members become better leaders and run healthier companies. The members engage in an active learning environment that prizes psychological safety and confidentiality so they can freely draw upon each other’s various perspectives and rich experiences. Sharing opportunities or challenges in an open forum is an
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