ESG accounting is a mess. Competing initiatives mean there’s no uniform set of standards for measuring a company’s progress on sustainability. The good news is that a new initiative, the International Sustainability Standards Board, promises to do for sustainability reporting what the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) does for financial reporting — develop standards for companies to…
Streamers look increasingly like social media, but without the content controlsNEIL YOUNG was five years old when, in 1951, he was partially paralysed by polio. Joni Mitchell was nine when she was hospitalised by the same illness around the same time. Both grew up to become famous singers—and, lately, prominent campaigners against anti-vaccine misinformation. The…
Many organizations that allowed knowledge workers to do their jobs remotely during the pandemic now seem committed to getting them back together in the office, and bosses are trying to get their teams on board. Although the pandemic has been a once-in-a-century disruption to business, navigating this challenge is no different than managing any other kind…
Anger and resentment across your team can make an already stressful leadership job feel worse. But how you respond to your employees’ frustrations is critical to ensuring negative emotions don’t limit your effectiveness. The author offers four recommendations to try: 1) Balance your emotions first before reacting to your team’s frustration. 2) Lean into their anger with…
This year they may not be as immune as before to infection, inflation and imploding supply chainsTHROUGHOUT 2021 corporate profits in America seemed immune to infection, inflation and snarled-up global supply chains. With most of the country’s biggest firms having reported their latest quarterly results, revenues and earnings in the last three months of the…
A little-known pinch-point in the world’s supply chainsSHORTAGES AND bottlenecks have been a source of constant frustration for manufacturers around the world for two pandemic-afflicted years. For a handful of companies in the business of keeping factories running and supply chains intact, these frustrations have been a source of cheer—and profits. Japanese makers of industrial…
In the world of financial uncertainties, a side hustle can bring financial freedom and flexibility into your life. A side hustle is…
As the pandemic drags on and on, worker burnout continues to be a crisis at health care systems. But there are proven strategies that health systems can use to mitigate the physical and emotional depletion that their employees are suffering. This article offers five. They are derived from the authors’ interviews with health care leaders, their…
Two decades ago, companies began adding degree requirements to job descriptions, even though the jobs themselves hadn’t changed. After the Great Recession, many organizations began trying to back away from those requirements. To learn how the effort is going, the authors studied more than 50 million recent job announcements. The bottom line: Many companies are…
Automated tools that help to lift, sort, and move goods around warehouses can substantially improve efficiency and quality. But how do the millions of workers employed in warehouses around the world feel about these changes? The authors conducted a series of interviews with on-the-ground workers and identified several common hopes and concerns. Based on these…