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Development aid helps to fight gender inequality. Here are 5 research-backed steps to take

Work Life

Women’s participation in the workforce leads to greater productivity and brings diverse perspectives that enhance decision-making and drive innovation. Research-backed best practices Governments and aid professionals should follow five steps for success to safeguard the advances made in gender equality and continue progressing: 1.

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These 3 types of CEOs are most likely to make bad decisions

Work Life

The myth might be good for movie making and setting up the climactic peak of a story, but it is rarely reality. Instead, bad decision-making often happens slowly over time—the product of seeds planted long before. It is instead how decision-making happens within the company. SVB failed.

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There’s a happiness gap at work. Here’s what we learned from leaders in Finland and Denmark, the happiest countries in the world

Work Life

We recently spoke with business, academic, and government leaders in Finland and Denmark, the top two happiest countries in the world , about how enacted values impact workplace happiness. There, transparency begins at the topmost levels of government. Can workers be happy and trust their leaders?

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Chance to retrofit offices is going begging, report claims

Workplace Insight

A lack of clarity from government around MEES deadlines has led to hesitancy or delay among some investors and owners. UKGBC also calls for mandatory measurement and reporting of whole life carbon for major projects, to support evidence-based decision-making and demonstrate the carbon savings of retrofit over new-build.

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Without Trust, Your Company Will Resist Rapid Innovation

Great Place to Work

While the report found that business is the most trusted institution to make sure innovation is safe and accessible (compared to government, NGOs, and the media), no institution had more than 59% approval. Every employer starts out with a certain amount of trust in the bank — a level of trust built over time with employees.

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How AI Technology in the Workplace Is Shaping the Future of Work

Office Space

Entities, including Microsoft, the government of Massachusetts, and the New York Times, plan to turn to the hybrid model , which a spokesperson for the newspaper called a “collaborative work environment that is a driver of success.” They weigh how to optimize corporate real estate without sacrificing employee experience.

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Why Leaders Need To Show Humility

Tanveer Naseer

High-trust leaders, on the other hand, see their role as a stewardship, guiding people, assets, and decision-making—protecting the values and vision that make an organization what it is. The statement “ L’etat, c’est moi ,” attributed to French King Louis the XIV, isn’t a sustainable governing principle. (In