A human-centric approach to CEO leadership, board–CEO collaboration, inclusive care for people with disabilities, and more: The Weekend Read

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It’s officially fall in the Northern hemisphere. Get cozy this weekend and catch up on some of the week’s big reads on a human-centric approach to CEO leadership, boosting board–CEO collaboration, inclusive care pathways for people with disabilities, and more.

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Successful leaders constantly reinvent themselves and their organizations. Critical to this reinvention is adopting an “inside out” approach that focuses on the human aspects of leadership. Find out more on the latest Five Fifty from McKinsey Quarterly.

Get your Five Fifty

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As board director roles continue to become more complex, stronger partnership with management, especially the CEO, is increasingly critical, write Celia Huber , Frithjof Lund , and Nina Spielmann.

Strengthen partnerships

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The prevalence of diseases is substantially higher for people with disabilities. They also experience more and higher barriers to care. Mona Hammami , Sunny Sun, and coauthors explore what healthcare stakeholders can do to reduce or eliminate these health inequities.

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Brodie Boland talks about how decarbonizing building operations is more crucial—but also more doable—than ever.

Ready to unwind?

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Advancing R&D for chronic diseases with AI: A conversation with Novo Nordisk’s CSO

As head of R&D at Novo Nordisk, Marcus Schindler is leading the company’s efforts to embrace external innovation and expand into new therapeutic areas with AI as a powerful catalyst for progress.

Find inspiration

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Author Talks: The fight for fairness at work

Among many educated women, hard-won workplace gains appear to be waning. Why—and what does this mean for organizational performance?

Strengthen parity and performance

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Make the cut

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