Employee engagement and future skills: HR leaders share their priorities for 2025
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While a new calendar year doesn’t necessarily mean a new start in business, it can be a valuable opportunity to reassess, reflect and set new goals for your organisation.?
To get an idea of what British business leaders are prioritising in 2025, we spoke to executives across various functions about the talent, tools and strategies they are focusing on this year. Read on for HR leaders’ New Year's resolutions.?
Big tech’s support for Trump isn’t a moral about-face – it’s?business
On Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017, journalist Jason Tanz put forward a theory in a piece he wrote for Wired. In Tanz’s view, it was “Silicon Valley utopianism” that, in a roundabout way, propelled the once-outsider Republican candidate to power. Trump, he argued, had exploited loopholes in the tech giants’ dearly held progressive values to win the election.
At the time, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos said the president-elect was “dangerous”. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, likened Trump to dictators and even compared him to Adolf Hitler. Later, in the wake of the 6 January Capitol riots, Facebook and Twitter ceremoniously banned the former president from their platforms.
But big tech appears to have made peace with the demagogue. With less than a week until Trump’s second inauguration, the Silicon Valley heavyweights who once openly decried Trump have made a sharp 180-degree turn. Read on to find out why.
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Beyond the Balance Sheet: practical advice on common CFO?dilemmas
This advice first appeared in Raconteur’s Beyond the Balance Sheet newsletter, an agony aunt for CFOs. Sign up here to receive it weekly.
The job of a chief financial officer extends far beyond the balance sheet. From navigating C-suite politics and winning over the boardroom to managing conflicts and maintaining employee trust, the job now requires much more than mere number-crunching. Rewarding as it may be, the role can sometimes take a toll on its occupants, leading to feelings of isolation and burnout. But when you’ve reached the top of the corporate ladder, to whom do you turn for?advice?
Over the past three months, finance professionals have been writing in to ‘Beyond the Balance Sheet’ to detail the predicaments they face. Here, we’ve compiled some words of advice offered by experts and peers in?response. Read more.
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