2020 Corruption Perceptions Index

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020/index/nzl

Companies that embrace 5 emerging trends can gain a competitive edge.

https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/report/business-technology-trends-2022

The Best Management Is Less Management

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/The-Best-Management-Is-Less-Management?utm_source=itw&utm_medium=itw20211207&utm_campaign=resp

the fear of public speaking

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/my-rookie-moment?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck&hdpid=5a732dff-f5c5-48b1-8478-08091d8b519c&hctky=2920544&hlkid=6bbc12095c1a4d52a046f3fc5f2653b0#episode1

12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/millennials-industries-thriving/?utm_source=CB+Insights+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a154efb569-newsletter_general_Wed_20190904&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9dc0513989-a154efb569-88252861

The Great Resignation Is Great for Low-Paid Workers (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-18/the-great-resignation-is-great-for-low-paid-workers?srnd=opinion&sref=s8o0IkxD

Run Your Business So You’ll Never Need Layoffs by Dennis Campbell, John Case, and Bill Fotsch

https://hbr.org/2020/06/run-your-business-so-youll-never-need-layoffs

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves (harvard business review)

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/how-a-company-made-employees-so-miserable-they-killed-themselves?cid=spmailing-33924180-WK%20Newsletter%2011-24-2021%20(1)-November%2024,%202021

COVID-19 Survey says: More than one-fourth of unvaccinated workers are willing to lie (HR BREW)

https://www.morningbrew.com/hr/stories/2021/11/22/survey-says-more-than-one-fourth-of-unvaccinated-workers-are-willing-to-lie?mid=b3ff78c10fbec82990dd5a8ff6bb9344

Tesla, Rivian and Lucid: The Big Bet on Electric Mobility

https://www.statista.com/chart/26205/market-cap-and-deliveries-of-electric-car-makers-vs-traditional-auto-companies/?utm_source=Statista+Newsletters&utm_campaign=ba460bf672-All_InfographTicker_daily_COM_KW40_2021_Fr_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_662f7ed75e-ba460bf672-314823433

Top 10 MBA Programmes In The World 2022

https://www.topmba.com/mba-rankings/full-time-mba-rankings-global/top-10-mba-programmes-world-2022?utm_campaign=Newsletters&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=181999593&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_lmaOXkooOcZ0kZRFLw16etssNxmzFgmVjBZwCjSNnxHFP-j4A86FlDHwFtVWJJJwsJ8of8zipYTIBa0Tn1n_ZrKI8dA&utm_content=182012975&utm_source=hs_email

Corporate social Responsibility: The short life of enlightened leadership (and how to extend it)

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/The-Short-Life-of-Enlightened-Leadership-and-How-to-Extend-It?utm_source=itw&utm_medium=itw20211111&utm_campaign=resp

CLIMATE CHANGE Tuvalu Exploring Ways to Retain Status as a Country as Sea Levels Rise

https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2021/11/10/tuvalu-exploring-ways-to-retain-status-as-a-country-as-sea-levels-rise?email=alexsahinidis%40gmail.com

The Falling Cost of Renewable Energy

https://www.statista.com/chart/26085/price-per-megawatt-hour-of-electricity-by-source/?utm_source=Statista+Newsletters&utm_campaign=4ab3c26ed9-All_InfographTicker_daily_COM_KW40_2021_Fr_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_662f7ed75e-4ab3c26ed9-314823433

The great attrition stems from a great disconnect

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/great-attrition-or-great-attraction-the-choice-is-yours

social inequality index: GINI index (World Bank estimate) - Country Ranking

https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SI.POV.GINI/rankings

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/dying-to-lead-how-reaching-the-top-can-kill-you-sooner?cid=spmailing-33841886-WK%20Newsletter%2010-27-2021%20version%203%20(1)-October%2027,%202021

Reviving the art of apprenticeship to unlock continuous skill development

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/reviving-the-art-of-apprenticeship-to-unlock-continuous-skill-development?cid=other-eml-dre-mip-mck&hlkid=a774e1a8976d4a078406df70a8406fd5&hctky=2920544&hdpid=bd18a30c-8d37-4348-9e8a-416e4384655f

The Risks You Can’t Foresee (Harvard Business Review)

https://hbr.org/2020/11/the-risks-you-cant-foresee

Οι 25 εταιρείες με το καλύτερο εργασιακό περιβάλλον στην υφήλιο

https://www.businessnews.gr/epixeiriseis/item/221035-oi-25-etaireies-me-to-kalytero-ergasiako-perivallon-stin-yfilio

How the best soccer team in the world lost its luster

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/How-the-best-soccer-team-in-the-world-lost-its-luster

Cultivated meat: Out of the lab, into the frying pan

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/agriculture/our-insights/cultivated-meat-out-of-the-lab-into-the-frying-pan

Getting Serious About Stakeholder Capitalism (Harvard Business Review Home

https://hbr.org/2021/05/video-walk-the-talk-of-stakeholder-capitalism

ECONOMICS: Prizewinning Economists Show You Don't Need a Lab (Morning Brew)

The three Nobel Prize winners in economics show that science is happening all around us—if we’re willing to look. David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens, US-based economists who shared the prize awarded yesterday, helped pioneer the use of “natural experiments” to conduct studies on real-life situations as if they had happened in a tightly controlled lab. Here’s one example: Card is most famous for his and Alan Krueger’s 1993 study on the effects of minimum wage on employment. They compared fast food jobs in New Jersey, which had just raised its minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.05, to fast food restaurants in neighboring Pennsylvania. The idea was that NJ and PA are generally pretty similar, so any observed differences in the labor market could lead to important conclusions about raising the minimum wage. What did they find? That NJ’s higher minimum wage did not hurt job growth...and may have even increased employment. This shocked most experts at the time. Bottom line: Natural experiments are now ubiquitous in economics research, but only because these Nobel Prize recipients showed what was possible. —NF

Unlocking the true value of effective feedback conversations

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/the-organization-blog/unlocking-the-true-value-of-effective-feedback-conversations

The World's Most Innovative Countries

https://www.statista.com/chart/18804/rankings-of-the-global-innovation-index/?utm_source=Statista+Newsletters&utm_campaign=a688b501ae-All_InfographTicker_daily_COM_AM_KW29_2021_Mo_COPY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_662f7ed75e-a688b501ae-314823433 https://www.globalinnovationindex.org/gii-2021-report#

Best Workplaces in Europe 2021: 11 εταιρείες από την Ελλάδα στις καλύτερες της Ευρώπης

Best Workplaces in Europe 2021: 11 εταιρείες από την Ελλάδα στις καλύτερες της Ευρώπης https://csrnews.gr/49073/best-workplaces-in-europe-2021-11-%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%b1%ce%b9%cf%81%ce%b5%ce%af%ce%b5%cf%82-%ce%b1%cf%80%cf%8c-%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%bd-%ce%b5%ce%bb%ce%bb%ce%ac%ce%b4%ce%b1-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b9%cf%82-%ce%ba

What Remote Work Does to Companies (Morning Brew)

If it feels like you haven’t caught up with anyone on your company’s sales team in months, you’re not alone. Remote work is causing companies to become islands of business units with few connections between them, according to a new study from Microsoft researchers. The study, which explored the communication patterns of more than 61,000 Microsoft employees during the Covid-19 pandemic, found a significant decrease in collaboration between teams, causing networks to become “static and siloed, with fewer bridges between the disparate parts.” The researchers also found a decrease in “synchronous” communication (meetings, video calls) and an increase in “asynchronous” communication (emails, instant messages). Why it matters: Less interaction across teams may lead to less new information shared, especially complex ideas. Zoom out: The research was published as most of the country’s biggest tech companies push off a return to the office in light of the Delta variant. Microsoft itself just announced it will postpone its office return date indefinitely.

Amazon and the Importance of Treating Employees Right at a Customer-Centric Organization (BAIN AND COMPANY)

https://www.netpromotersystem.com/insights/amazon-and-the-importance-of-treating-employees-right-at-a-customer-centric-organization-linkedin/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mkto&utm_campaign=OPT-q3-loyalty-insights-2021-09-10&utm_term=amazon-and-the-importance-of-treating-employees-right-at-a-customer-centric-organization-linkedin&mkt_tok=NTQ1LU9GVy0wNDQAAAF_buA5eYFRDggBvBr3ki9dg8Rb2lO0fyf5juW7hYfMbFBl8wtD3a9ohKe7eycd_46F38a5dqU8nCVNvlsKh7iRaTB-qU_CQEwz6avD2FY2Ke4AOdk

Robo Recruiters Have a Patchy Track Record (MORNING BREW)

https://www.hbs.edu/managing-the-future-of-work/Documents/research/hiddenworkers09032021.pdf Robo Recruiters Have a Patchy Track Record Waiting to hear back for a job interview? Your résumé might never have gotten into human hands. Popular software used by companies to screen job applicants has filtered out more than 10 million potential employees, new Harvard Business School research shows. How does the tech work? An automatic screener largely relies on “negative” logic to reduce the size of the applicant pool. Résumés—even those of well-qualified candidates—can get lost in a black hole because of things like a gap in the applicant’s employment history, a lack of certain credentials, or keywords that don’t match up with the job description. Some of those keywords might not seem obvious. Hospitals set “computer programming” as a keyword when they look for registered nurses who can enter patient data into a computer, Joseph Fuller, Harvard’s lead researcher for the study, explained to the WSJ. Why it matters: 99% of Fortune 500 companies and 75% of the US employers Harvard surveyed use an automated scanner to initially filter applicants. While there are 10 million job openings in the US that employers desperately want to fill, automated hiring systems are excluding viable candidates. – SQ

The 32 Companies Leading for Their Workers by Industry (Just Capital)

https://justcapital.com/news/the-best-companies-for-workers-by-industry/

What if the Coronavirus Crisis Is Just a Trial Run? (The New York Times Sept. 1, 2021)

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-on-shutdown-keynes-and https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/opinion/covid-pandemic-global-economy-politics.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur

Why aren’t successful people happier?

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Why-arent-successful-people-happier?utm_source=itw&utm_medium=itw20210902&utm_campaign=resp

Postings for HR Roles Jump 53% Above Pre-Pandemic Levels

https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2021/07/02/postings-hr-roles-jump-53-prepandemic-levels?utm_source=morning_brew&__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=42e01f9d858aeacd5c1def3dadde4c2acc4f6ea7-1625485388-0-AWCKLvLsDheRb3PW0Ahi7kFJhHyi6hqViuSWVLVPUrliYPbAZLC-u_QLtq13uy95Urp7Ylm6hTctrtQFPwdAQt3dIrDdMhKhjUfZu11flnacl7zyZBjdCbk6ikkSijXR3hIu2NeeOIcEVIRgGfcFvsVq4XdcaUxm86namE6z0p5cKWH0TBqnd1nswJAOoO11zVtlyY8mjXlLGCTdXCFIS8Agze7W93qmOznQIrjL1XXlSrvcllnzdBviFtfDyJ2jh8upqJeR27xbvzuvMQegCb4OXo4L-7lpl_IIB4rJkqxjwbsYNyuabwcT_Tokyr4eUQJItJInoqDecJU0ZDjTymn98d13RD8X8Yjr7GYCM8X34SvvasWaI6mbdDNxOjwKxkJGyUnqEGBTj2eJd-O1F1pg6GABP5BjdDankhm0qDwuIqK7PsxCD80wN4owmly2-ibwmibvngDXPuclE0Z_95fGyibr5-52pG9gwWfrA7J_RPedP2-hz8nmJ_yoskUVMkffC1aKj9JBG_uux8wyREiqUXRCjD6QzJhWjmk79S8F2fa_nYuzPn9B0WPRsM7x9qToEL2J1oUERtkVj_YVZi0

IMD WORLD COMPETITIVENESS ONLINE

https://worldcompetitiveness.imd.org/countryprofile/overview/GR

How Should I Deal With an Unvaccinated Student? (The New York Times June 15 2021)

By Kwame Anthony Appiah Published June 15, 2021 Updated June 16, 2021 I run a small group at a college that requires Covid-19 vaccination for students. One student in my group received a religious exemption. I want to start having in-person meetings and functions, but not everyone is comfortable gathering in a room with an unvaccinated person. Even though the risk is small to any one of us because we are vaccinated, some of us have family members who are unable to be vaccinated at the present time. Having an unvaccinated member within the group carries a risk that one of us could become infected and infect an immune-compromised person or otherwise vulnerable family member. Group functions and meetings are vital to my students and especially to new members. They promote learning and exchange of ideas vital to our projects, and social and work-related interactions are important for our work and for team building. Before Covid-19, we would order food and discuss work-related issues and other topics. The Zoom meetings we’ve been having are not a great substitute for this. How can we have group functions and not exclude an unvaccinated person? Should we suggest that the person participate via Zoom? Name Withheld People are free to refuse vaccination for religious reasons, but they may have to deal with the consequences. The fact that most students in your group have been vaccinated substantially lowers their risk of contracting the virus and then infecting other, vulnerable people, but of course not to zero. The C.D.C. currently uses red (least safe), yellow (less safe) and green (safest) scoring to indicate safety when vaccinated and unvaccinated people mingle. There are certainly ways of accommodating this unvaccinated student that would secure a fully green score for all participants — meetings with masks and social distancing and without food; or meeting only outside. But such measures would pose a serious burden. They would impede the easy, free-form interactions that contribute to the group’s functioning. The unvaccinated student who wishes to be included in these interactions, meanwhile, gains nothing when they are eliminated for everyone. The members of your group could reasonably agree to gather in a room with an unvaccinated person who was properly masked and distanced. (Note that it’s the unvaccinated person who is chiefly at risk, earning a C.D.C. “yellow” even when those precautions are taken.) Otherwise, the student could indeed participate via Zoom. This arrangement is far from ideal. The student will not get all the benefits that other members will. But disallowing this student from pre-pandemic-style in-person sessions where everyone, including the student, is unmasked and undistanced wouldn’t represent hostility toward the student or his faith community. It would merely represent C.D.C.-guided vigilance.

How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax. How billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax?campaign_id=56&emc=edit_cn_20210609&instance_id=32635&nl=on-politics-with-lisa-lerer®i_id=69265859&segment_id=60299&te=1&user_id=b3ff78c10fbec82990dd5a8ff6bb9344

The rise and fall of merit In The Aristocracy of Talent, Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of meritocracy and fears for its future.

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/The-rise-and-fall-of-merit?gko=5c881&utm_source=itw&utm_medium=itw20210608&utm_campaign=resp

Remote Workers Reluctant to Return to the Workplace

https://www.statista.com/chart/25019/preferred-work-location-after-the-pandemic/

Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working From Home (Bloomberg.com)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/return-to-office-employees-are-quitting-instead-of-giving-up-work-from-home?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Some%20Workers%20Are%20Quitting%20Rather%20Than%20Giving%20Up%20Remote%20Work&utm_campaign=Enews%20BOTW%206/4/2021

Sustainability at a turning point (IBM.COM)

https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/report/sustainability-consumer-research?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_content=000038GP&utm_term=10012001&utm_campaign=PLACEHOLDER&utm_id=launch

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful (Harvard Business Review)

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/skills-and-behaviors-that-make-entrepreneurs-successful?cid=spmailing-33397559-WK%20Newsletter%206-2-2021%20(1)-June%2002,%202021

What if you could condense all your pills into one? With 3D printing, you can

https://www.fastcompany.com/90632252/what-if-you-could-condense-all-your-pills-into-one-with-3d-printing-you-can?utm_source=The+Medical+Futurist+Newsletter&utm_campaign=122c023750-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_5_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_efd6a3cd08-122c023750-420590069&mc_cid=122c023750&mc_eid=9ad5a03784

GDP per capita levels - most recent year. Labour productivity levels - most recent year (OECD)

GDP per capita levels - most recent year https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=PDB_LV Labour productivity levels - most recent year https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=PDB_LV

C.E.O. Pay Remains Stratospheric, Even at Companies Battered by Pandemic While millions of people struggled to make ends meet, many of the companies hit hardest in 2020 showered their executives with riches. (ΝΥΤ, 25/4/2021)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/business/ceos-pandemic-compensation.html Boeing had a historically bad 2020. Its 737 Max was grounded for most of the year after two deadly crashes, the pandemic decimated its business, and the company announced plans to lay off 30,000 workers and reported a $12 billion loss. Nonetheless, its chief executive, David Calhoun, was rewarded with some $21.1 million in compensation. Norwegian Cruise Line barely survived the year. With the cruise industry at a standstill, the company lost $4 billion and furloughed 20 percent of its staff. That didn’t stop Norwegian from more than doubling the pay of Frank Del Rio, its chief executive, to $36.4 million. And at Hilton, where nearly a quarter of the corporate staff were laid off as hotels around the world sat empty and the company lost $720 million, it was a good year for the man in charge. Hilton reported in a securities filing that Chris Nassetta, its chief executive, received compensation worth $55.9 million in 2020.....

Where the jobs are: An inside look at our new Future of Work research (mckinsey.com)

https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/new-at-mckinsey-blog/where-the-jobs-are-insights-from-our-new-study

Five Quick Takes on the Sustainability Revolution (Bain.com)

https://www.bain.com/insights/five-quick-takes-on-the-sustainability-revolution-infographic

The sustainability bump. The pandemic has intensified global consumers’ focus on sustainability (Ibm.com)

https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/RVXZZX3L

The 50 Most Innovative Companies Over Time (BCG.COM)

https://www.bcg.com/publications/most-innovative-companies-historical-rankings?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=esp&utm_campaign=most_innovative_companies&utm_description=featured_insights&utm_topic=none&utm_geo=global&utm_content=202104&utm_usertoken=2cf70b82037df25fce370991294159b87be07ea2

Δ. Συζήτηση: "Η ελληνική επιχειρηματικότητα μετά την πανδημία" 7/4/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co5LpegXNEo

Study of 36.5M people reveals huge jump in pandemic telehealth use

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/study-365m-people-reveals-huge-jump-pandemic-telehealth-use?utm_source=The+Medical+Futurist+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3a0cc413d6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_04_01_Resend&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_efd6a3cd08-3a0cc413d6-420590069&mc_cid=3a0cc413d6&mc_eid=9ad5a03784

Business Acronyms You Should Know

https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2021/02/16/business-acronyms-know?utm_source=morning_brew&__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=501f7331f35f932c5af83711bae9b09d8f61b5c5-1617223714-0-AeT-dTnP0qDTOk-yoXHq_SBSEpDXoPNLPtYfmWZkwvjfqhcUbX_Rpxu6U9IfsDs4qZ7YFtenf1a3soVcrAvEGts7SHmDhEd_NS-8WMVYF1PMDAeyula53sRLaptG98LRwecnTR6oFXhw36-TqSFYr4HKYL1x7ilfuUd4DUdzflpXrRSw6xTwF7Jp_r06qpKY7tOeULA6Z5a_Ns6F8FUNQGQRUfIntGcb-I9F9jKyhA3taL4u0JZCQw-Epj-RkWxp9-aCdbNl0pJo6fmHLrxGPIAxjk9VCh_ikEBhmXuONn71_ER_6OgM_wBbr64OT-4ajJquHfSSCt_VxA8p8uyZJKj-ypg_FOo0GmDaeFjFPd1m0AfDz9iJcFuHFq-NmZKwQW5-ZTrrhVdABvPBRs-ttaEiIMcHPCylxbzbOp-PBaAEMTdZDU7fObfVqO6Z_2x5mzaRSYMAukqziGnLXv_mAMAP35n_U1cmkrHIRqfKbzPpx0eOgwvV8JtPv0lW8HXNxhPL9KIR0PEk4qhF24dECjo

Export champions from Greece offer good value for money

https://www.solarthermalworld.org/news/export-champions-greece-offer-good-value-money

3 Ways the Pandemic Has Made the World Better ( The Atlantic)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/three-ways-pandemic-has-bettered-world/618320/?utm_source=The+Medical+Futurist+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5f4779671a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_3_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_efd6a3cd08-5f4779671a-420590069&mc_cid=5f4779671a&mc_eid=9ad5a03784

The stickiness test: what trends are likely to persist in the future?

The stickiness test: what trends are likely to persist in the future? https://covid-tracker.mckinsey.com/poThe%20stickiness%20test:%20what%20trends%20are%20likely%20to%20persist%20in%20the%20future?st-pandemic-consumer

Why authentic informal leaders are key to an organization’s emotional health

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Why-authentic-informal-leaders-are-key-to-an-organizations-emotional-health?gko=17a76&utm_source=itw&utm_medium=itw20210323&utm_campaign=resp

What working from home looks like in nine different countries

https://restofworld.org/2021/heres-what-working-from-home-looks-like/

Working Conditions Survey Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC February 2021 ( Morning Brew)

https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rSEzNw9cve9E/v0?utm_source=morning_brew Goldman Sachs bankers have become a little too familiar with their Zoom reflection. In a survey circulated to managers, 13 analysts in Goldman's investment banking division reported sharply deteriorating mental and physical health from working almost 100 hours/week in what one described as "inhumane" conditions. They asked managers to cap their hours at 80/week, allow more time to prepare for client and team meetings, and guarantee Friday nights and Saturdays off (unless there's a pre-approved exception). If conditions don't improve, analysts said there's only a 35% chance they'll still be at Goldman in six months. A spokesperson said the bank is listening and trying to address concerns, including by hiring more junior bankers and transferring some employees to help. But execs probably don't want to address the root problem.

Better bosses

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/five-fifty-better-bosses

The World Economic Forum’s “Future of Jobs Report 2020” . 5 charts showing the jobs of a post-pandemic future – and the skills you need to get them

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/x-charts-showing-the-jobs-of-a-post-pandemic-future-and-the-skills-you-need-to-get-them/ http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_2020.pdf

YouGov - international vaccine safety perceptions. A Five country study

https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/ei0ckvi45y/YouGov%20-%20international%20vaccine%20safety%20perceptions.pdf

PwC 24th Annual Global CEO Survey: A leadership agenda to take on tomorrow

https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/ceo-agenda/ceosurvey/2021/report.html?WT.mc_id=CT2-PL200-DM2-TR2-LS4-ND30-TTA9-CN_CEO-Survey2021-HTML-Report

‘Look for skills, not credentials’: Beth Cobert on tapping into US talent

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-accelerate/our-insights/look-for-skills-not-credentials-beth-cobert-on-tapping-into-us-talent?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck&hdpid=1662ed5f-e61e-4253-bd72-4451dbbcc783&hctky=2488449&hlkid=e954cb2d72ea408ca21cff8cb205e0e3

Women, leadership, and missed opportunities (IBM.COM)

https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/report/women-leadership-2021

8 Books All Aspiring Leaders Should Look Out For In 2021

https://www.topmba.com/mba-programs/8-books-all-aspiring-leaders-should-look-out-2021?utm_campaign=Newsletters&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=110763606&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--gH1CBvWgU8qrSs9-f0DTCu4Hc1kYiOXFRfRuHC9cAU4LWVvX364AB1w54TlWbQok6TPCY8eT-mJDnT60EYLg0MguFHQ&utm_content=110763579&utm_source=hs_email As we look ahead to 2021 with plenty of reasons for optimism, there’s no better time to discover new ideas and develop your own leadership abilities. Add these books to your ‘Zoom bookshelf’, keep them on your bedside table, and devour them excitedly in between online learning sessions. Here are eight books every good leader needs for 2021. Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity by Scott Galloway All businesses were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is a concrete divide between industries that are set to thrive and those that are struggling to survive as a result of the disruption. NYU Business School professor Scott Galloway provides an insight into what’s currently happening across government, big tech, education, and other industries – offering a framework on how to think about the post-pandemic future. Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology by Rana el Kaliouby Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Rana el Kaliouby shares her story of transformation, showing how her experiences have inspired her to lead a technology revolution. She says to lead others and pursue audacious change, we need to be self-aware and draw from our own lives. In Girl Decoded, leaders can learn how to draw from their own experiences, make intentional changes in their lives and infuse more humanity into their work. Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity Through Business by John Mackey Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and his co-authors released Conscious Leadership as a follow-up to Conscious Capitalism. This latest installation presents a framework for how leaders drive societal change through their business leadership. John Mackey shares the principles, vision and mindset he’s used to reach the top of the business world—and do plenty of good in the process. The Gumbo Coalition: 10 Leadership Lessons That Help You Inspire, Unite, and Achieve by Marc Morial Marc Morial, former mayor of New Orleans and current president and CEO of the National Urban League says: “To be a great leader, you must be able to unite people from all backgrounds with seemingly competing agendas to come together under a common cause.” He hopes the The Gumbo Coalition will teach others what he has learned, by showing readers what it means to be a leader who can unite voices and create meaningful change. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said: “The book is a fascinating political memoir, it’s also something more: a leadership manual, complete with checklists, tips, and pitfalls to avoid. Marc writes about how to increase your collective power by building consensus, how vital it is to communicate your vision to your team at every step, and how networking done right is about building purposeful and intentional relationships for the common good. “To my mind, that makes The Gumbo Coalition essential reading for people across all sectors – especially business leaders.” Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration by Keith Ferrazzi Keith Ferrazzi is an entrepreneur, coach and author of Never Eat Alone details a new principle in his latest book Leading Without Authority: co-elevation. He says co-elevation enables employees at all levels to connect with colleagues, collaborate freely, and inspire their shared growth. Leaders can learn how to use co-elevation in their own organizations to help their teams build trust, manage stress, and improve performance across the entire company. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg Award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg says to successfully build habits and harness your true potential, you must understand the science behind habits. In The Power of Habit Duhigg shows readers how utilizing this knowledge can help you change your life for the better and for good. Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini The future of business is still uncertain in these current times, and businesses to be resilient and adaptable to change. In Humanocracy, Hamel and Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. The co-authors say top-down power structures and bureaucracy slow businesses down and stifle creativity, and their offers a compellingly argued expose on the massive costs of bureaucracy in society. Humanocracys lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are as inspired and ingenious as the human beings inside them. Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You by Frances Frei Frances Frei is one of the world’s foremost authorities on leadership. In Unleashed, she teams up with Anne Morriss to teach leaders how to dig deep and empower others. Leadership takes grit, toughness, and the ability to motivate others. Frei and Morriss offer advice from top-performing organizations that can help you raise your game as a leader and pull others up along the way.

THE MINIMUM WAGE IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES (STATISTA.COM)

https://www.statista.com/chart/3501/the-countries-with-the-best-minimum-wages/

The Most Innovative Economies in the World

https://www.statista.com/chart/19312/most-innovative-economies-in-the-world/?utm_source=Statista+Global&utm_campaign=08f1f4cb19-All_InfographTicker_daily_COM_AM_KW05_2021_Fr_COPY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_afecd219f5-08f1f4cb19-299815833 Cancer research, meat alternatives and smart home technologies are among the major developments of our time. But which countries are world leaders in research and development, patent activity, high-tech density and everything that comes with fostering innovation? A Bloomberg ranking released today shows the most innovative countries by index value. South Korea ranked highest in 2021, after Germany won the ranking in 2020. The East Asian country had been at the helm of the list also from 2014 to 2019. The U.S. ranked 11th, losing three ranks in two years, and exited the top 10 for the first time. The ranking includes factors such as research and development expenditures, the number of domestic patent applications and the number of domestic public high-tech companies. South Korea scored 90.49 out of 100 possible points, as our chart shows. The Netherlands and Denmark were the countries most improved among the top 10, climbing up four and two ranks, respectively.

Here's how much more money you'd have for retirement if you saved $100 a month starting at 25 instead of 35 (Business Insider.com)

Business Insider/Andy Kiersz. Time is the greatest tool we have for building wealth. If two people save $100 a month for retirement, but one starts at 25 and the other starts at 35, the early saver will have nearly twice as much in their bank account by age 65. Starting to save now, wherever you are in your timeline, is better than starting tomorrow or next week. Consider the following example and the chart below. Chris and Jennifer both invest $100 a month at a 5% annual compound rate of return. Chris begins investing at age 25, putting away $100 every month until 65 and Jennifer begins saving $100 a month at age 35. An extra 10 years of saving means that Chris has about $162,000 in his bank account, while Jennifer has $89,000 by the time she is 65. Chris' balance is nearly double Jennifer's, and he contributed only $12,000 more of his own money. Now, if Chris and Jennifer incrementally increase their monthly contribution as they grow older — perhaps bumping up their savings rate by a small percentage with every pay raise — they'll wind up with even more money in that account at retirement. Plus, investing in the stock market, whether directly or through a retirement account such as a 401(k), may yield a rate of return that's even higher than 5% in some years. Historically, the stock market has averaged a 7% rate of return, adjusting for inflation. Saving in a tax-advantaged retirement account, such as an IRA or 401(k), can give your money an even greater boost. Those types of accounts are funded with pretax money, so your full dollar will have the opportunity to compound.

5/2/2021 Η ελληνική Advent Technologies Holdings Inc.εισέρχεται στο NASDAQ

http://www.ictplus.gr/default.asp?pid=30&rID=70280&ct=0&la=1

UK small and medium-size enterprises: Impact of the COVID-19 crisis (mckinsey.com)

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector/our-insights/uk-small-and-medium-size-enterprises-impact-of-the-covid-19-crisis?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck&hdpid=48a0365e-9a3a-4317-8827-6f80c42279c0&hctky=11703013&hlkid=309a60a181904f0caeb929e297079cdb

The vaccine news continues to be better than many people realize. by David Leonhardt ( The New York Times Feb 1, 2021)

Infections aren’t what matters The news about the vaccines continues to be excellent — and the public discussion of it continues to be more negative than the facts warrant. Here’s the key fact: All five vaccines with public results have eliminated Covid-19 deaths. They have also drastically reduced hospitalizations. “They’re all good trial results,” Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, told me. “It’s great news.” Many people are instead focusing on relatively minor differences among the vaccine results and wrongly assuming that those differences mean that some vaccines won’t prevent serious illnesses. It’s still too early to be sure, because a few of the vaccine makers have released only a small amount of data. But the available data is very encouraging — including about the vaccines’ effect on the virus’s variants. “The vaccines are poised to deliver what people so desperately want: an end, however protracted, to this pandemic,” as Julia Marcus of Harvard Medical School recently wrote in The Atlantic. Why is the public understanding more negative than it should be? Much of the confusion revolves around the meaning of the word “effective.” What do we care about? In the official language of research science, a vaccine is typically considered effective only if it prevents people from coming down with any degree of illness. With a disease that’s always or usually horrible, like ebola or rabies, that definition is also the most meaningful one. But it’s not the most meaningful definition for most coronavirus infections. Whether you realize it or not, you have almost certainly had a coronavirus. Coronaviruses have been circulating for decades if not centuries, and they’re often mild. The common cold can be a coronavirus. The world isn’t going to eliminate coronaviruses — or this particular one, known as SARS-CoV-2 — anytime soon. Yet we don’t need to eliminate it for life to return to normal. We instead need to downgrade it from a deadly pandemic to a normal virus. Once that happens, adults can go back to work, and children back to school. Grandparents can nuzzle their grandchildren, and you can meet your friends at a restaurant. As Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, told me this weekend: “I don’t actually care about infections. I care about hospitalizations and deaths and long-term complications.” The data By those measures, all five of the vaccines — from Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Novavax and Johnson & Johnson — look extremely good. Of the roughly 75,000 people who have received one of the five in a research trial, not a single person has died from Covid, and only a few people appear to have been hospitalized. None have remained hospitalized 28 days after receiving a shot. To put that in perspective, it helps to think about what Covid has done so far to a representative group of 75,000 American adults: It has killed roughly 150 of them and sent several hundred more to the hospital. The vaccines reduce those numbers to zero and nearly zero, based on the research trials. Zero isn’t even the most relevant benchmark. A typical U.S. flu season kills between five and 15 out of every 75,000 adults and hospitalizes more than 100 of them. I assume you would agree that any vaccine that transforms Covid into something much milder than a typical flu deserves to be called effective. But that is not the scientific definition. When you read that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was 66 percent effective or that the Novavax vaccine was 89 percent effective, those numbers are referring to the prevention of all illness. They count mild symptoms as a failure. “In terms of the severe outcomes, which is what we really care about, the news is fantastic,” Dr. Aaron Richterman, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of Pennsylvania, said. The variants What about the highly contagious new virus variants that have emerged in Britain, Brazil and South Africa? The South African variant does appear to make the vaccines less effective at eliminating infections. Fortunately, there is no evidence yet that it increases deaths among vaccinated people. Two of the five vaccines — from Johnson & Johnson and Novavax — have reported some results from South Africa, and none of the people there who received a vaccine died of Covid. “People are still not getting serious illness. They’re still not dying,” Dr. Rebecca Wurtz of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health told me. The most likely reason, epidemiologists say, is that the vaccines still provide considerable protection against the variant, albeit not quite as much as against the original version. Some protection appears to be enough to turn this coronavirus into a fairly normal disease in the vast majority of cases. “This variant is clearly making it a little tougher to get the most vigorous response that you would want to have,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said. “But still, for severe disease, it’s looking really good.”

2020 JUST Capital Year in Review. Stakeholder Capitalism: ‘The Fierce Urgency of Now’

https://justcapital.com/reports/2020-the-year-in-review/

How Can Students Make Themselves ‘Work Ready’ at University?

https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/careers-advice/how-can-students-make-themselves-work-ready-university?utm_campaign=Newsletters&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=108467825&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9AF7T6cnWS66ux7-Ife2OmRZvtJYKJfbUM77JVh-jfSMAQIqRn8xPTsxmmbuTsvhOlM91zoM0TUtcN6E7MbsevD2m8Yg&utm_content=108468053&utm_source=hs_email

Inequality: A persisting challenge and its implications (McKinsey.com)

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector/our-insights/inequality-a-persisting-challenge-and-its-implications?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck&hdpid=401a3b87-a894-4d81-a5ff-9c92e73a8402&hctky=2488449&hlkid=f6127471fa02486bbf33cb97509a7a9d

Robo-Dancing from Boston Dynamics ( 2 min Video)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw&utm_source=morning_brew

2020 Drucker Institute Company Ranking

 

https://www.drucker.institute/2020-drucker-institute-company-ranking/

Card Over Cash? (STATISTA jan 21 2021)

 

It remains to be seen if card payments still catch on in some developing countries. In places where payment cards are not yet widespread, phone payments can actually spread quicker, creating a leapfrog effect of the population migrating straight from cash to mobile wallets and other phone payments.

Katharina Buchholz

Data Journalist

katharina.buchholz@statista.com

Putting people at the heart of public-sector transformations

 

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector/our-insights/putting-people-at-the-heart-of-public-sector-transformations

How to Cope When Working From Home

 

https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/careers-advice/how-cope-when-working-home?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism? (Harvard Business Review, 2020)

 

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/are-ceos-the-wrong-leaders-for-stakeholder-capitalism

The Art of the Lie? The Bigger the Better (The New York Times 11.1.2021)

 

By Andrew Higgins

"Lying as a political tool is hardly new. Niccolo Machiavelli, writing in the 16th century, recommended that a leader try to be honest but lie when telling the truth “would place him at a disadvantage.” People don’t like being lied to, Machiavelli observed, but “one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.”A readiness, even enthusiasm, to be deceived has in recent years become a driving force in politics around the world, notably in countries like Hungary, Poland, Turkey and the Philippines, all governed by populist leaders adept at shaving the truth or inventing it outright. Janez Jansa, a right-wing populist who in 2018 became prime minister of Slovenia — the home country of Melania Trump — was quick to embrace Mr. Trump’s lie that he won. Mr. Jansa congratulated him after the November vote, saying “it’s pretty clear that the American people have elected” Mr. Trump and lamenting “facts denying” by the mainstream media. Even Britain, which regards itself as a bastion of democracy, has fallen prey to transparent but widely believed falsehoods, voting in 2016 to leave the European Union after claims by the pro-Brexit camp that exiting the bloc would mean an extra 350 million pounds, or $440 million, every week for the country’s state health service." Those who advanced this lie, including the Conservative Party politician who has since become Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, later admitted that it was a “mistake” — though only after they had won the vote. Bigger and more corrosive lies, ones that don’t just fiddle with figures but reshape reality, have found extraordinary traction in Hungary. There, the populist leader Viktor Orban has cast the financier and philanthropist George Soros, a Hungarian-born Jew, as the shadowy mastermind of a sinister plot to undermine the country’s sovereignty, replace native Hungarians with immigrants and destroy traditional values."

With skill shortages looming, companies need multiple tactics to close the capability gap. Here are three keys to action.

 https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/covid-response-center/leadership-mindsets/webinars/tomorrows-teams-today-build-the-capabilities-needed-to-transform-individuals-teams-and-your-organization

Think like a CEO: Top 5 countries, industries, and tech for new ventures (IBM.Com)

 https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/report/think-like-a-ceo

Location, location, location

3 of the 5 countries most CEOs would choose for a new venture are in Asia.

Getting down to business: Top 5 industries

Shaping entrepreneurial intentions: The impact of entrepreneurship education on university students

 

Article: Entrepreneurship Dec 21 2020

https://zn.mwse.edu.pl/index.php/zn/article/view/757/704

The Resource Moat: How Companies Like Pfizer And Disney Have Used Patents And More To Gain A Competitive Edge (cbInsights)

 

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/resource-patent-business-moat-competitive-advantage/?

Co-ops in Spain’s Basque Region Soften Capitalism’s Rough Edges ( The New Yoork Times, Jan 3 2021)

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/business/cooperatives-basque-spain-economy.html

By Peter S. Goodman

"If the Erreka Group operated like most businesses, the pandemic would have delivered a traumatic blow to its workers.

Based in the rugged Basque region of Spain, the company produces a variety of goods, including sliding doors, plastic parts used in cars and medical devices sold around the world. As the coronavirus ravaged Europe in late March, the Spanish government ordered the company to shut two of its three local factories, threatening the livelihoods of the 210 workers there.

But the Erreka Group averted layoffs by temporarily trimming wages by 5 percent. It continued to pay workers stuck at home in exchange for the promise that they would make up some of their hours when better days returned."

"The concept of the cooperative may conjure notions of hippie socialism, limiting its value as a model for the global economy, but Mondragón stands out as a genuinely large enterprise. Its cooperatives employ more than 70,000 people in Spain, making it one of the nation’s largest sources of paychecks. They have annual revenues of more than 12 billion euros ($14.5 billion). The group includes one of the country’s largest grocery chains, Eroski, along with a credit union and manufacturers that export their wares around the planet."

In the United States, the chief executives of the largest 350 companies are paid about 320 times as much as the typical worker, according to the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. At Mondragón, salaries for executives are capped at six times the lowest wage. The lowest tier is now €16,000 a year (about $19,400), which is higher than Spain’s minimum wage. Most people earn at least double that, plus they receive private health care benefits, annual profit-sharing and pensions."