Research: Women Score Higher Than Men in Most Leadership Skills
by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman For Harvard Business Review Photo: Alex and Laila/Getty Images Summary. Recently updated research shows that women in leadership positions are perceived as being every bit as effective as men. In an analysis of thousands of 360-degree assessments, women were rated as excelling in taking initiative, [...]
Gen Z Employees Are Feeling Disconnected. Here’s How Employers Can Help
by Adam Smiley Poswolsky For Harvard Business Review Photo: Evgeniy Shvets/Stocksy Summary. New research by the mental health organization Sapien Labs shows that half of young people worldwide have experienced mental health decline and a deterioration of their “social self” in the wake of the pandemic. In this article, the author [...]
20 Women-led Startups to Get Google Advantage in First Round of Accelerator Program in India
By Vijay Anand For CNBCTV Mini The inaugural batch of the accelerator will accept up to 20 women-founded/co-founded startups, including those at the minimum viable product stage, and "support them through a three-month programme". The programme will focus on areas like access to networks, to capital, hiring challenges, mentorship and many [...]
Forbes Releases Its 2022 List Of America’s Richest Self-Made Women, A Ranking Of The Most Successful Female Entrepreneurs In The Country
by Forbes Staff photo: America's Richest Self-Made Women2022 / FORBES ART NEW YORK – June 14, 2022 – Forbes today released its eighth annual list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women, which spotlights America’s most successful women entrepreneurs, executives and entertainers. The 100 women featured have a combined net worth of $111 billion. Women [...]
Top 10 Resilient Countries
As the world continues to face increasing risk, the 2022 FM Global Resilience Index, which ranks 130 countries and territories according to the relative resilience of their business environment, has updated its methodology. In addition to the regular disruptions like natural disasters, cyberattacks, and political uprisings, it now includes an additional 15 [...]
A Shared Purpose Breaks Down Silos
Getting people to unite for the sake of the company--and forget about their differences--focuses them on working together to benefit the whole. by Jay Richards For Industry Week Does it feel sometimes like your people spend more time battling each other than they do the competition? This is silo behavior. [...]
IMF Likely to Cut Global Growth Estimate as Conditions Deteriorate: Official
"We see the global economy headed into a growth slowdown," IMF spokesperson Gerry Rice said. by Agence France-Presse The IMF expects to once again cut its forecast for world growth this year amid a continued deterioration of conditions in the global economy, a fund official said Thursday. "So much has [...]
Can Small Businesses Adapt Their Supply Chain With Current Challenges?
By Catherine Erdly Contributor, Small business retail expert and founder of The Resilient Retail Club photo: 2021 brought rising shipping and oil costs and major supply issues, largely driven by shipping ... GETTY For Forbes 2021 brought rising shipping and oil costs and major supply issues, largely driven by shipping disruption, [...]
Paris Plans to be Completely Cyclable by 2026
By: Paige BennettWriter, EcoWatch for World Economic Forum Photo: Plan Velo: Act 2 also outlines measures to teach children to ride bikes in schools, add repair workshops in each district of the city, and encourage cycling tourism. Image: Jilbert Ebrahimi/Unsplash France is investing 250 million euros ($290 million) to make [...]
When Your Efforts to Be Inclusive Misfire
by Daisy Auger-Dominguez For Harvard Business Review Photo: Todd Pearson/Getty Images Sometimes in your efforts to be inclusive and call out injustice, you accidentally cause harm to others. Perhaps you use words that some find offensive, or you neglect to name all of the groups that are suffering the injustice, or [...]