McKensey
MAY 16, 2025
Government subsidies, investment incentives, and other industrial-policy actions have almost quadrupled since 2017. Heres how business leaders can navigate the impact of industrial policy on their markets.
Robertson Cooper
MAY 16, 2025
Stress is part of life, but chronic stress affects our health and wellbeing. Discover the link between managing stress & building resilience.
McKensey
MAY 16, 2025
Big changes in tech are presenting CIOs with a chance to modernize the economics of technology and productivity.
Mad in America
MAY 16, 2025
O n a regular Tuesday I went to work and my coworker told me she wished that someone like me had killed himself. The person she was talking about was severely depressed and had been hospitalized following a suicide attempt. My coworker found him annoying because he kept asking her for things, like to use the phone. She wished that he had died so he wasnt here bothering us.
Speaker: Chester Santos
Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform
McKensey
MAY 16, 2025
Bob McDonald, a leader with unique experience as both a Fortune 25 CEO and a cabinet secretary, reflects on the elements of leadership, team health, and building a strong culture.
Work Life
MAY 16, 2025
Leaders today are stretched to the breaking point. Many managers enter their roles wanting to coach and care for their teams. But in todays workplace, that vision is colliding with a lengthening list of competing pressures: performance metrics, shifting workplace norms, and the unrelenting emotional labor of guiding teams through crisis after crisis.
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Work Life
MAY 16, 2025
Parental leave is often treated as a checkbox issuehandled quietly by HR, focused on paperwork, and confined to a narrow window of time. But Amy Beacom, founder and CEO of the Center for Parental Leave Leadership and author of The Parental Leave Playbook , is reshaping that view. With over 25 years of experience in executive coaching and organizational development, Beacom, who has an EdD degree in industrial and organizational psychology from Columbia University, partners with leading companies
McKensey
MAY 16, 2025
The profit margins of IT service providers are under pressure. Pricing offers higher potential ROI than other margin improvement levers, but seizing the opportunity requires a comprehensive approach.
Work Life
MAY 16, 2025
Like most humans, I generally prefer to surround myself with people who like, value, and respect me. You know, its quite a nice and simple way to boost my self-esteem. And yet, after studying human behavior for many years, I am fully aware that the tendency to indulge in this self-enhancing habit is intellectually debilitating: while it feels nice to hang out with people who appreciate you, it is also a way to develop blind spots and ignore opportunities to get better, improve, and develop new s
Office Snapshots
MAY 16, 2025
The Arabian has recently completed a distinguished project in the heart of DIFC for Baraka Financial Limited, a prominent Fintech company recognized as the Start-up of the year. Spanning 1800 square feet, this compact space was was required to accommodate a few cabins, meeting rooms, a fully equipped pantry, 24 workstations, and collaborative work pods.
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
Work Life
MAY 16, 2025
How do you feel about your work? Do its daily demands leave you burned out and drained of energy ? Do you find yourself reducing how much effort you make to engage in some quiet or “soft” quitting ? Or maybe you dream of taking a more decisive step and joining the “ great resignation.” The prevalenceand popularityof these responses suggest that there has been quite a change in many peoples attitudes to the way they earn a living.
Success
MAY 16, 2025
On Wednesday, the Burberry brand announced it will be cutting up to 1,700 jobs, about 18% of its workforce, by 2027 to reduce operating costs by around $133 million. This move is part of new CEO Joshua Schulmans Burberry Forward comeback strategy. Call it a comeback The move comes amid a reported operating loss of around $4 million year over year.
Work Life
MAY 16, 2025
Adults with grown children are often still helping support them financially. And sometimes, those contributions take away from the funds they would otherwise be saving for retirement. According to a recent Savings.com survey of 1,000 U.S. adults with grown children, half regularly assist them financially. Those numbers are going up in recent years. On average, parents are shelling $1,474 monthly to help their adult children, which is about 6% more than they provided the previous year.
Fellow
MAY 16, 2025
AI note-taking apps have become a familiar sight in virtual meetings. While these tools can boost productivity, its important to ask: where is all your meeting data going? Otter.ai is one of the most popular AI note takers. It originally launched as a transcription app, designed mainly for journalists and podcast producers to transcribe interviews. It wasnt built with recurring meetings in mind, which is why Otter doesnt support video recording except for with its most expensive enterprise plan.
Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC
Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult
Office Snapshots
MAY 16, 2025
One Impression engaged Designforth to imagine their first office – a 8000 sft space nestled in prominent commercial building in Gurgaon Designforth delivered an eco-conscious office design keeping transitional and transformational requirements of One Impression in mind- both in terms of spatial planning and the aesthetics. The result is a collaborative space that focuses on forging community and connection facilitating the varied styles of working and transform into and communal space for
Success
MAY 16, 2025
The young workforce isn’t job hunting in traditional ways. Unlike previous generations, which relied on in-person and LinkedIn networking, Gen Z is turning to Instagram and TikTok for career advice and networking, reports a recent study by Zety. They’re more likely to connect with peers, mentors or industry professionals on Instagram66% of Gen Z uses the app for this purposecompared to LinkedIn, which only 35% of Gen Z uses for networking.
Bonnie Low-Kramen
MAY 16, 2025
Bonnie Low-Kramen When I was a kid, I would give my dad a great big neck hug and I would wait for him to say, This hug is like medicine as we held on tight. Dad was onto something. Hugs feel great and actually have healing properties. Google it. So, thats my advice for this years graduates. Spend time thinking about how you relate to people, including the person looking back at you in the mirror.
Zevo Health
MAY 16, 2025
In 2025, the Trust & Safety (T&S) sector stands at a critical crossroads. Regulatory pressure is intensifying, moderation demands are growing more complex, and competition from decentralized and emerging platforms is fragmenting the digital landscape. Social media companies and their outsourcing partners are navigating a volatile environment that demands resilience, agility, and above all, a renewed investment in the people behind platform integrity.
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
Mad in America
MAY 16, 2025
U sage of psychiatric drugs goes up all the time, almost like a law of nature. This does not reflect genuine needs for the drugs but drug marketing and corruption of doctors, drug agencies, the media, medical journals, politicians, and the science. 1,2 We have a mental health crisis because the existing approaches that focus on drugs are not working and worsen the outcomes. 3 In the UK, mental health disability has almost trebled in recent decades, and the gap in life expectancy between people w
Work Life
MAY 16, 2025
Midway while sailing across the Pacific with just his cat named Phoenix, Oliver Widger reflected on why he thinks his many followersmore than a million on TikTok and Instagramare drawn to his story of quitting his 9-to-5 job and embarking on a journey from Oregon to Hawaii. “The world kind of sucks and, like, I don’t think I’m alone in how I felt with my work,” Widger, 29, told The Associated Press on Wednesday via Zoom. “You can be making $150,000 a year and you st
Work Life
MAY 16, 2025
As a lifelong pop culture aficionado, I have a tendency to connect my favorite media to whatever Im currently doing. When I purchased a secondhand easy chair a few weeks ago, my husband and I spent a sweaty 30 minutes struggling to get it up the stairs. With the chair still wedged at an impossible angle, we paused to catch our breath and I said, Youre gonna need a bigger boat.
Work Life
MAY 16, 2025
In February, the newly appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission opened a probe into Verizon just as the company was awaiting approval for a sizable acquisition. The telecom giant had announced plans last fall to purchase internet provider Frontier in a $20 billion deal, which was under review by the FCC. Verizon has now made the decision to cut its DEI programs , seemingly in response to FCC chair Brendan Carr’s investigation into its diversity practices.
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