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Get inspired by these three pioneering, sustainable companies

Chartered Management Institute

As a result, a more sustainable, ethical operational approach is now just good business sense; minimising the risks of climate change to the business, meeting stakeholder and investor needs, and increasing consumer appeal. Listicle Looking for top tips, checklists or listed ways to help you along with your management and leadership journey?

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The Case for Corporate Disobedience

Harvard Business Review

Like a startup, you have to get the market fit right, but you also have to fight the corporate systems at the same time, dealing with the rules, procedures, and approval processes that every big company has in place to support its strategy. Our job as senior managers is not to prevent all forms of rule breaking. An HBR Insight Center.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. He also forced partners and distributors to commit in writing to uphold IBM's strict ethical standards. It is not about you.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. These stats were reviewed by managers every week.

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What is HRIS? Your Guide to HRIS Features and Benefits

HR Digest

Its the backbone of 21 st century people management. A Human Resources Information System is a software platform that collects, stores, manages, and processes employee data, turning HR from a paper-choked waste-room into a digital artist. Start with the essentials: employee records management. Its strategy, not just admin.

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

And everyone is trying to climb to the top of that to get ahead,” explains Heather Fadali, senior brand manager for coffee at Kraft Heinz, Nabob’s parent company. The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades. competitors are entering the market.

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