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What is Garden Leave? The employment break you didn’t expect

HR Digest

The employer uses this window to secure their operations, reassign duties to other employees and lock down confidential company information. In the UK, where this concept is widely use, its particularly common in sectors like finance, law and technology, where intellectual capital is the currency. So, what is garden leave then?

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The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy

HR Digest

An effective financial literacy program should clear concepts of finance and accounting in simple terms with examples that are relevant to the organization’s day-to-day operations. Joe Knight is widely considered as one of the world’s most influential finance and business literacy leaders. First, share the numbers.

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The Fundamentals of Leadership Still Haven’t Changed

Harvard Business Review

The challenge, she said, was that these managers were highly proficient in their own disciplines such as finance, marketing, research, clinical care, and insurance reimbursement — and had demonstrated that they could manage people in these areas — but she needed them to be “bigger” leaders.

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” ” Yet the freedom bestowed on corporations by Citizens United comes with serious risk.