Last week, Musk railed on Twitter against ESG (“Environmental, Social, and Governance”: non-financial factors increasingly being considered by socially conscious investors) for Tesla being dropped from the popular S&P Global ESG index—while ExxonMobil remained. On its surface, understandable how many would be confused by that turn of events, including the increasingly un-nuanced billionaire troll.
Read MoreThe problem with data is that it often gets interpreted as infallible, providing a false sense of comfort about our decision making. It’s why so many companies have made increasing investments in data analytics in the past decade.
But data is not insight—at least, not by itself.
Read MoreOne of the reasons my partners and I built 18 Coffees to be focused on strategy, change management, and organizational development was that we knew we were in a unique moment in business history, one in which our basic assumptions about what it means to be a business were about to be questioned.
Read MoreIf the leaked draft opinion holds, the Supreme Court is on the precipice of overturning Roe v. Wade—and 50 years of precedent. The decision would have an incredibly negative effect on women’s health care—depending on what state you live in.
Read MoreAs I’ve written before, it is a leadership mistake for CEOs to assume they can stay out of politics and remained unscathed—one that Disney CEO Bob Chapek is currently making.
Read MoreThe war in Ukraine is providing us with a myriad of case studies about the application of digital tools in ways they weren’t necessarily designed for: from Google Maps providing real-time information about Russian troop movement, to passionate pleas on Twitter by the Ukrainian president, to Facebook blocking Russian state media. It’s been surreal watching a 20th-century style war play out on 21st-century media.
Read MoreThis week has been another of many reminders in recent years that our brains have not been built to manage the influx of information that the internet provides. From the standpoint of history, the experience of having real-time updates about every terrible thing happening in the world is very new.
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