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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. This year we added a carbon metric. Methodology.

Company 70
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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. Corporations are now taking a further step beyond objective metrics, which can be financial and nonfinancial, to include subjective measures — tagged as “soft.”

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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business

Companies with a strong sustainability program and culture attract and retain better talent who desire a sense of purpose and contribution to a greater good. Our network of global Green Teams took this to heart and made considerable strides in 2016 by diverting 2.4 million pounds of waste from landfills and saving more than 2.2

Company 135
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How Self-Care Became So Much Work

Harvard Business

It seems likely that the values driving us to be workaholics in the first place are also encouraging us to “optimize” ourselves by using metric-driven “hacks.” But it’s important to see how this ancient tradition is being commodified by our culture as a tool for improvement.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Nearly Half of Companies Say They Don’t Have the Digital Skills They Need

Harvard Business

Compare that with 67% and 66% in 2016 and 2015, respectively. The word “digital” used to mean your company’s investments in IT, and perhaps social media readiness, but now it’s bigger, touching on your company’s overall culture. Jump ahead to 2017, and that same metric is just 18%.

Company 135
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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. ” Many CEOs in our interviews emphasized the importance of choosing the right metrics to support both/and decision making.

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