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"A groundbreaking blueprint for mastering “cross-pressures” in a rapidly changing world, teaching leaders to execute and innovate, think locally and globally, and project ambition and statesmanship alike—from a Stanford Business School lecturer and consultant to some of the biggest and most innovative CEOs

Since the start of this century, businesses have confronted a series of extreme and constant disruptions, including technological upheavals, a pandemic, and a global financial crisis. As a result, today's leaders, from startup founders to the managers of global giants, face unprecedented pressures from their bosses, investors, customers, peers, suppliers, and employees. For many, it's a recipe for disaster.

Part of the problem is that these challenges, while acutely felt, are rarely articulated in a way that makes them graspable and actionable. Robert E. Siegel has witnessed the impact of these cross-pressures from different perspectives. As a lecturer in management at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, operator, venture capitalist, and consultant, he sees countless teams of managers, at all sorts of companies, struggling to lead their companies into the future.

Featuring exclusive stories drawn from inside the business world, including from the CEOs of Harley-Davidson, Mubadala, Kering, Wells Fargo, and Box, this essential guidebook teaches readers“systems leadership,” Siegel's holistic framework that helps leaders understand and master five key dimensions where they are likely to feel contradictory pressures:

Priorities: The need to succeed at both execution and innovation
People: The need to project both strength and empathy
Sphere of influence: The need to focus both internally and externally
Geography: The need to think both locally and globally
Purpose: The need to pursue both ambition and statesmanship

Actionable and powerful, The Systems Leader is a playbook for riding turbulent waves instead of drowning in them—and for taking readers from chaos to clarity."

"Social media connected the world—and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. It is paramount, MIT professor Sinan Aral says, that we recognize the outsize effect social media has on us—on our politics, our economy, and even our personal health—in order to steer today's social technology toward its great promise while avoiding the ways it can pull us apart.
Drawing on decades of his own research and business experience, Aral goes under the hood of the most powerful social networks to tackle the critical question of just how much social media actually shapes our choices, for better or worse. He shows how the tech behind social media offers the same set of behavior influencing levers to everyone who hopes to change the way we think and act—from Russian hackers to brand marketers—which is why its consequences affect everything from elections to business, dating to health. Along the way, he covers a wide array of topics, including how network effects fuel Twitter's and Facebook's massive growth, the neuroscience of how social media affects our brains, the real consequences of fake news, the power of social ratings, and the impact of social media on our kids.
In mapping out strategies for being more thoughtful consumers of social media, The Hype Machine offers the definitive guide to understanding and harnessing for good the technology that has redefined our world overnight."

"The UK has an ageing population, which offers both challenges and opportunities for individuals, businesses and the economy. The department's publication Fuller Working Lives - a framework for action outlined the background evidence around later life working and retirement and set out a number of actions to help people have fuller working lives.

To build on the Framework and fill some key evidence gaps, this research was commissioned to explore older people's attitudes to later life working and retirement. The research explores the attitudes of those who are currently employed, self-employed, and unemployed to later life working and retirement. It also explores the attitudes and reflections of those who are currently retired to the circumstances surrounding retirement and later life working."

"Health and Well-being at work, a survey of employees was jointly funded by the Health and Safety Executive and the Cross-Government Health, Work and Well-being Strategy Unit. A survey of 2,019 employees, aged 16 +, was conducted between October and December 2009. The survey objectives were to:
Develop the evidence base around work and health and workplace health initiatives from the employee perspective. Provide baseline data so that progress on health and well-being at work can be measured and monitored over time."

"This report reviews international experience of the use of differential payments in job outcome performance-based contracting for employment programmes.

The first section reviews the development of performance-based contracting and the issues involved in differential access to employment services and programmes. Subsequently, the report reviews detailed evidence from countries that have made most extensive use of performance-based contracting, with case studies of Australia, the Netherlands, the USA and Great Britain. It assesses how the hardest to help were identified and variations in the use of differential payments and considered available evidence on impacts and how such systems sought to reduce 'creaming' and 'parking'.

The report considers the policy implications of the case study findings and of other payment models that have been proposed, such as a 'target accelerator'. Whilst there is no simple model that DWP could import, the report suggests ways in which the pricing and contracting system may be used to encourage providers to work with higher risk, higher cost participants."