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Why A Great Remote Leadership Strategy Is A Cure For Quiet Quitting Old-school leadership thinking looks like this: Half of business leaders believing remote employees aren’t working as hard; 48% of businesses using monitoring software to track remote employees; half of managers of knowledge workers planning to force people back into the office next spring. It’s all the leaders stuck in the traditionalist belief that remote workers are phoning it in. It’s the countless companies “flex washing” their job descriptions, promising remote work they don’t plan on allowing.
The solution for quiet quitting isn’t to monitor employees or force them to work where they don’t want to work (the office), and it’s certainly not to hire more motivated people. Instead, organizations need a modern remote leadership strategy to train leaders to reframe their perspective of what makes for a hard worker and give them the essential tools for inspiring, engaging and motivating distributed teams.
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WorkWhy NATO Needs to Plan for Nuclear WarAs the alliance meets this week, leaders must discuss how they will react if Russia uses weapons of mass destruction.
WorkRussia announces Kherson evacuation, raising fears city will become frontlineBorrell, a former Spanish foreign minister, said: “Putin is saying he is not bluffing. Well, he cannot afford bluffing, and it has to be clear that the people supporting Ukraine and the European Union and the member states, and the United States and Nato are not bluffing either. Any nuclear attack against Ukraine will create an answer, not a nuclear answer but such a powerful answer from the military side that the Russian army will be annihilated.” � | | WorkEurasia Is More Than Russia's BackyardViewing recent conflicts in the Caucasus and Central Asia through the lens of Moscow's political calculus overlooks important internal dynamics.
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The news essentially ensured the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates by another 75 basis points next month, while doubling the odds of an additional rise in December. Â WorkHere's the inflation breakdown for September 2022 in one chartThese signs include a decline in the price of used cars, which \"should continue to feed through,\" and private-sector measures of new rents, which \"point to an eventual sharp moderation in shelter inflation too,\" the note said. However, a slowdown in rent inflation likely won\'t be pronounced until the first half of 2023, it added. WorkQatar plans sobering up areas for drunken fans\"All we ask is for people to be respectful of the culture,\" Al Khater said. \"At the end of the day, as long as you don\'t do anything that harms other people, if you\'re not destroying public property, as long as you\'re behaving in a way that\'s not harmful, then everybody\'s welcome and you have nothing to worry about.\" WorkWorkBofA warns that the US economy will start to lose 175,000 jobs per month during Q1 of 2023, expects a harder landing rather than a softer one heres why(Reuters) -A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that a federal ban on possessing a gun with its serial number removed is unconstitutional, the first such ruling since the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically expanded gun rights in June. 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Offers may be subject to change without notice.S&P Index data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Terms & Conditions. Powered and implemented by Interactive Data Managed Solutions. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWhy Middle Managers Struggle to Implement DEI StrategiesTo successfully achieve DEI change, organizational leaders must understand the implementation challenges faced by middle managers and incorporate their specific needs into policy development. The authors identify two key tensions faced by middle managers the autonomy vs. control tension, and the short-term vs. long-term tension and offer strategies for leaders to help middle managers navigate them. WorkWorkPitch Deck Teardown: Supliful's $1M seed deckSupliful picked print-on-demand services. 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Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy | CA Notice at Collection and Privacy Notice | Do Not Sell My Personal Information | Ad Choices FORTUNE is a trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, registered in the U.S. and other countries. FORTUNE may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice.S&P Index data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Terms & Conditions. Powered and implemented by Interactive Data Managed Solutions. WorkKatie Porter: Congress needs to change to build Americans trust© 2022 Fortune Media IP Limited. All Rights Reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy | CA Notice at Collection and Privacy Notice | Do Not Sell My Personal Information | Ad Choices FORTUNE is a trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, registered in the U.S. and other countries. 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