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Kim Shepherd on her book, 'Remote Work' Jun 22, 2021

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Questions about remote work post-COVID-19? Join us to hear Kim Shepherd discuss her new book, Remote Work: Redesign Processes, Practices And Strategies To Engage A Remote Workforce. There are no magic wands but Kim does have some tangible recommendations and great stories. If you plan to have remote employees, work with a mixed or hybrid system, or have teams spread across different locations, this book will be your guide for the new normal. In addition, Remote Work includes case studies on how other top organizations use remote work as part of their talent strategy, e.g., Cornerstone OnDemand, AMN Healthcare, Buffer, and the United States Marine Corps. And if you're interested in The Conference Board's latest data on remote work, check out The Reimagined Workplace a Year Later: Human Capital Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

John Hagel III on his new book 'The Journey Beyond Fear' Jun 14, 2021

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Join Rebecca Ray as she and business strategy expert John Hagel III break down his new book 'The Journey Beyond Fear'. In this conversation, John dives in on how to identify your fears, face your fears, move beyond your fears and how these lessons can apply to organizations and careers. The pair also touch on the importance of cultivating your personal passions and harnessing the potential of platforms.

Curtis Odom on his book 'Things I Heard My Professor Say' Jun 08, 2021

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Join Dr. Curtis Odom, business leader and Executive Professor of Management in the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, as he shares his 20 years of professional insights, lessons learned, and personal experiences about how to be a successful business leader.

What makes the writing of this book so beautifully ironic is that you will be reading the career learnings of someone who barely made it out of high school and yet found his personal definition of success as a business owner and full-time faculty member at a top business school in Boston.

This book started with a student who gave Dr. Odom the greatest gift of his career: a transcript of his academic lectures taught over a fall semester in a college classroom that encapsulated an entire career's worth of experience. This engaged student distilled the insights from Dr. Curtis Odom lectures into simple, impactful statements that most influenced him as a student and now can be shared with the book's readers.

John Pabon on his book: Sustainability for the Rest of Us Jun 01, 2021

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John Pabon founder of Fulcrum Strategic Advisors, talks with Uwe Schulte, Leader of the TCB Global Sustainability Centre about his book Sustainability for the Rest of Us. Why was there so little progress over last decades in sustainability and what is a pragmatic plan, each of us can engage with to tackle the global climate crisis and all the other challenges facing us, like loss of biodiversity, abuse of human rights or inequality and discrimination? Listen in as John gives you some insights into the book's 5 main points on how to tackle these hard questions.

Nathan Ainspan and Kristin Saboe on their new book Military Veteran Employment: A Guide for the Data-Driven Leader May 25, 2021

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How can civilian employers improve the way that they locate, hire, and retain military veterans and military spouses? Join Rebecca Ray as she discusses this and more with Nathan Ainspan, Senior Research Psychologist with the Military-Civilian Transition Office at the Department of Defense and Kristin Saboe, Global Senior Manager for Organizational Research and Employee Listening at Boeing. Their new book, Military Veteran Employment: A Guide for the Data-Driven Leader draws on principles and research from industrial/organizational psychology and best practices from human resources management. The discussion touches on the current state of veteran employment in the US and why it's such an important issue, what separates their research from what's been presented before, the benefits of veteran employment and the common misconceptions that civilians have about veteran employment.

Order Military Veteran Employment: A Guide for the Data-Driven Leader here.

Other related content from The Conference Board:

Supporting Veteran-owned Businesses, Employees, and Communities – Are Corporations Doing Enough to Help? (Podcast, November 2020)

Corporate Citizenship Watch: Supporting Military Caregivers During COVID-19 and Beyond (Webcast, July 2020)

Tendayi Viki on his latest book "Pirates In The Navy" May 07, 2021

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John Mestelaar, co-leader of Innovation Institute at The Conference Board interviews Tendayi Viki on his latest book "Pirates in the Navy". Listen in as Tendayi gives us a taste of some the insights this book provides. Tendayi endeavors to arm innovators with practice tools and guidance to navigate the choppy water of corporate politics while successfully transforming their companies.

Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg on their book, Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work Apr 20, 2021

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Why does the gender gap still persist and how can we close it? In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest on record. But despite these statistics, women remain underrepresented in positions of power and status, with the highest-paying jobs still remaining the most gender-imbalanced. The persistence of these inequalities begs the question: Why haven't we made more progress?

Join Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg as they discuss their new book, Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work, and reveal the pervasive organizational obstacles and managerial actions that create gender imbalances – as well as important strategies both leaders and businesses can use to break these barriers down.

Beverly Kaye on her book, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay Apr 14, 2021

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Since employees who walk out the door can cost their organizations up to 200 percent of their annual salaries to replace, retention is one of the most important issues facing businesses today. And with so many surveys reporting that employees are not happy and not working up to their full potential, engagement is also a serious and costly issue. And yet, how many talent management books truly stand the test of time?

In its sixth edition and published in more than 20 languages, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay provides managers around the world with 26 practical engagement strategies. Join internationally renowned Dr. Beverly Kaye as she suggests simple ways for managers to get started engaging their employees, ranging from the benefits of conducting stay interviews (first suggested in Love 'Em or Lose 'Em over 20 years ago!) to why it's essential to always tell the truth to when it's appropriate to question the rules. Dr. Kaye challenges organizations to think about how they can keep their best employees through internal mobility and describes how diversity and inclusion are essential components to all 26 of the engagement strategies.

CB Bhattacharya on his new book, 'Small Actions, Big Difference: Leveraging Corporate Sustainability to Drive Business and Societal Value' Apr 06, 2021

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Craig Carroll, leader of The Conference Board's Communications Institute, sits down for an engaging talk with Professor CB Bhattacharya, H.J. Zoffer Chair in Sustainability and Ethics, about his new book, 'Small Actions Big Difference: Leveraging Corporate Sustainability to Drive Business and Societal Value'.

Professor Bhattacharya outlines how employees can take charge, the pathway to sustainable ownership, lessons learned from the pandemic, and driving business value.

Jeff Schwartz on his book, Work Disrupted Mar 23, 2021

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As we enter a new year that is sure to be filled with further disruptions, Jeff Schwartz's new book Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work is essential reading for those looking to embrace these fast-paced changes as an opportunity to accelerate forward and flourish. The challenge, in a nutshell, is that you can't navigate 21st century work and careers with 20th century maps and mental models. Albert Einstein once remarked, "You can't use an old map to explore a new world" but a lot of leaders are trying to do just that.

As Schwartz says, this new era of "accelerated change" does not have to feel as stressful and scary as it did this past year. But it's essential that we reframe how we face the future. To do so, he maps out the skills and practices that require fresh perspectives as we prepare our workforces, workplaces and the definition of work itself for a very different tomorrow.

You can find Work Disrupted here: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/human-capital/articles/digital-workforce-transformation-roadmap.html

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