Weekly Impact Brief (2023.Aug.20)
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Welcome!
This Brief offers executives and their teams quick, fact-driven insights on trending topics around leadership, innovation, and more. These are curated weekly from top sources based on elements of the Impactful Framework.
Highlights
Three Powerful Levers of ESG: Sustainable Growth’s Impact On Profitability
Leadership Through Disruption: Navigating Productive Partnerships In Times of Change
The Art and Power of Paraphrasing: Bilateral Connection and Communication
Beyond Business: Blending Profit with Purpose
Jazz-Inspired Boardroom Rhythms: The Sound of Effective Collaboration
Post-Covid Team Leadership: Navigating Hybrid Versus Non-Hybrid Work Models
Impact Pulse
Each week, we review 100+ articles from 50+ premier academic and consulting firm sources to highlight the essential few below.
Three Powerful Levers of ESG: Sustainable Growth’s Impact On Profitability
Leading with Purpose: The New CEO Metric in a Socially Conscious World
A McKinsey analysis delves into the nature of achieving consistent growth. Growth isn’t just about revenue growth or profitability, but also sustainability and ESG priorities. "Revenue growth is good. Profitable growth is better. Profitable growth that advances ESG priorities is best."
Leadership Through Disruption: Navigating Productive Partnerships In Times of Change
Countering Disruptive Forces While Building Productive, Win-Win Partnerships
In a Harvard Business Review interview Andrew Liveris, former chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical, discusses three major talking points; technological advancements, the US-China relationship, and the importance of win-win scenarios in global business and politics.
The Art and Power of Paraphrasing: Bilateral Connection and Communication
Paraphrasing To Capture The Essence And Connect
A Standford GSB podcast with Matt Abrahams explores the power of paraphrasing to foster understanding, clarity, and connection… Passive listening results in a superficial grasp of the communicated material that quickly moves on to judgments, evaluations, or the next statement.
Beyond Business: Blending Profit with Purpose
From Apartheid Shadows To Global Spotlight: The Power of Persistence And Optimism
EY Global spoke to Discovery Limited CEO Adrian Gore about the birth of Discovery Limited during the challenging post-apartheid era in South Africa. “Pessimism sounds smart, but it isn't. Optimism sounds naive, but optimism requires engagement, accountability, investing.”
Jazz-Inspired Boardroom Rhythms: The Sound of Effective Collaboration
Beyond Conventional Collaboration: Lessons from the Jazz Ensemble
Wharton Executive Education and Center for Leadership and Change Management collaborated to tackle the challenge of achieving synergy within teams. "Most leaders would attest that true collaboration… is a desired yet often elusive outcome."
Spotlight Analysis
Below is our featured work for the week, a thought-provoking MIT Sloan 2021 study on Hybrid vs. Non-Hybrid working tensions.
Post-Covid Team Leadership: Navigating Hybrid Versus Non-Hybrid Work Models
A Shift in Leadership Tactics in the Post-Pandemic Digital Age
An MIT Sloan article considered the necessity of a multimodal approach to teamwork in the post-pandemic world. Hooijberg and Watkin observed, “We envision that the post-pandemic future of teamwork will be a purposeful hybrid combination of virtual coordination and in-person collaboration."
While the digital space has greatly advanced, human connection and face-to-face dialogue remain irreplaceable in certain capacities. Based on their nature, tasks can be divided into two modes of execution.
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Parting Thoughts
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Impactfully yours,
The Impactful Executive Team
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