Generosity in leadership, business travel, the people agenda for geopolitics, and more: The Weekend Read

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The holidays are just around the corner. This weekend, take a break from the hustle and bustle and dive into the week’s highlights on generosity in leadership, business travel, the people agenda for geopolitics, and more.

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What is generosity in leadership? Brooke Weddle, Bryan Hancock, and Dana Maor talk about the overarching benefits of shifting to a mindset of abundance and why—and how—the best leaders carve out more time for their teams.

Will it really help?

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Business travel is back. Ryan Mann discusses four notable themes that are taking shape across today’s business travel landscape.

4 themes

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Geopolitics is not only personal—it’s emotional. Ziad Haider explains why leaders need a geopolitics strategy for engaging with their people, just as they need one to guide their operations.

5 elements

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From navigating the CEO journey to boosting employee engagement to discovering your company’s superpower, here are this year’s highlights from the Five Fifty.

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What is generosity in leadership? Brooke Weddle, Bryan Hancock, and Dana Maor talk about the overarching benefits of shifting to a mindset of abundance and why—and how—the best leaders carve out more time for their teams.﻿

Business travel is back. Ryan Mann discusses four notable themes that are taking shape across today’s business travel landscape.﻿

Geopolitics is not only personal—it’s emotional. Ziad Haider explains why leaders need a geopolitics strategy for engaging with their people, just as they need one to guide their operations.﻿

From navigating the CEO journey to boosting employee engagement to discovering your company’s superpower, here are this year’s highlights from the Five Fifty.﻿

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Breaking the mold: Five behaviors of leading growth transformers﻿

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What is generosity in leadership? Brooke Weddle, Bryan Hancock, and Dana Maor talk about the overarching benefits of shifting to a mindset of abundance and why—and how—the best leaders carve out more time for their teams.

Business travel is back. Ryan Mann discusses four notable themes that are taking shape across today’s business travel landscape.

Geopolitics is not only personal—it’s emotional. Ziad Haider explains why leaders need a geopolitics strategy for engaging with their people, just as they need one to guide their operations.

From navigating the CEO journey to boosting employee engagement to discovering your company’s superpower, here are this year’s highlights from the Five Fifty.

Breaking the mold: Five behaviors of leading growth transformers

60-Down: “What ___ I thinking?”