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This Company Has The Best Origin Story You’ve Ever Heard

Naadam Cashmere’s founders brought $2.5 million into the Gobi Desert to cut out the middleman and buy cashmere straight from the herders.

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Sex Ed is broken: Here’s how to fix it

Fem tech is a growing technology that aims to improve and support women’s health. The fem- and sex-tech industries are focusing on inclusive education, support, and wellness for the next generation. Host Chris Denson caught up with Lilly Sparks, the founder of Afterglow, and Gabrielle Evans, the cofounder of The Minority Sex Report, to discuss how they are changing the narrative.

Sex Ed is broken: Here’s how to fix it

The Power of Employee Engagement with Jim Clifton

Jim Clifton is the Chairman of Gallup, the world-renowned polling, analytics and advice organization. Jim has tracked what makes people thrive at work for decades, and written several bestselling books on the topic. In this episode of the New Human Movement, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini talk to Jim about what drives employee engagement, the link between engagement and productivity & wellbeing, and how organizations can unleash the involvement and enthusiasm of all employees. This conversation is part of the New Human Movement, a series featuring bold thinkers and radical doers who are reimagining work, management and capitalism for a new age. For more, visit humanocracy.com/movement

The Power of Employee Engagement with Jim Clifton

The Heart of Business

Hubert Joly is the former the former Chairman and CEO of Best Buy and author of The Heart of Business. In this episode of the New Human Movement, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini talk to Hubert about Best Buy’s remarkable turnaround during his tenure as CEO, and unpack the key lessons from the retailer’s resurgence: pursue a noble purpose, put people at the center of the business, create an environment where every employee can flourish, and treat profit as an outcome, not the goal. This conversation is part of the New Human Movement, a series featuring bold thinkers and radical doers who are reimagining work, management and capitalism for a new age. For more, visit humanocracy.com/movement

The Heart of Business

How marketers mess up Pride month

Brands are flying their rainbow flags to celebrate Pride, but are they allies all year round? This week, Jeff Beer takes a look at how brands approach Pride this month and the controversy around corporate participation

How marketers mess up Pride month

A Business Behind Boundaries: Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country are again fighting for Roe v. Wade. We visited a Planned Parenthood in Ann Arbor, Michigan to understand how they'll continue providing vital services if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

A Business Behind Boundaries: Planned Parenthood

Why Reddit's COO Leads With Empathy

Jen Wong, COO of Reddit, tops the 2022 Fast Company's Queer 50 list. Wong says that being a gay Asian woman and coming from an immigrant family background helps her understand and be sensitive to diverse perspectives within in the workplace.

Why Reddit's COO Leads With Empathy

This COO's hope for Trans visibility in business

Avantha Arachchi spent one year interviewing for the CIA and was rejected due to her gender identity. She then refocused her efforts and partnered with like-minded people to create A-Frame Brands—a branding solution for underserved communities. With such clients as Gabrielle Union, Dwayne Wade, and Naomi Osaka, A-Frame is addressing problems that disproportionately impact millions of people.

This COO's hope for Trans visibility in business

Going Beyond “Innovation Theater” with Steve Blank

Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur with eight different Silicon Valley startups to his name, and the author of The Startup Owner’s Manual. In this episode of the New Human Movement, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini talk to Steve about how to bridge the gap between the rhetoric and the reality when it comes to innovation, and how to build organizations that are relentlessly creative. This conversation is part of the New Human Movement, a series featuring bold thinkers and radical doers who are reimagining work, management and capitalism for a new age. For more, visit humanocracy.com/movement

Going Beyond “Innovation Theater” with Steve Blank

Disney defends Star Wars actor against racist trolls

Moses Ingram posted an Instagram Story about the racist comments she’s been receiving from Star Wars fans. Learning from past mistakes, Disney is using its social channels and stars to combat racist troll attacks against the 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' star.

Disney defends Star Wars actor against racist trolls

Building a More Just Economy with Martin Whittaker

Martin Whittaker is the founding CEO of JUST Capital, an independent nonprofit that tracks, analyzes, and engages with large corporations to improve how they serve all their stakeholders. In this episode of the New Human Movement, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini talk to Martin about what’s required to move the vision of stakeholder capitalism from rhetoric to reality. This conversation is part of the New Human Movement, a series featuring bold thinkers and radical doers who are reimagining work, management and capitalism for a new age. For more, visit humanocracy.com/movement

Building a More Just Economy with Martin Whittaker

Tech

This NASDAQ adviser thinks markets are tumbling because of data privacy changes

This Dutch company is creating networks of connected sensors to combat poaching

This tech tool can actually help you read and learn more

News

Report: Many large companies that vowed to leave Russia are still active there

This is how many rejections it takes before job seekers lose confidence

New data shows just how much investors have been contributing to the housing boom

Co.Design

This $150 massage wand is like a Theragun for babies

How home offices have evolved—and gotten cozier in the process

Inside the post-pandemic office: More stairs, better acoustics, and . . . WiggleRooms?

Work Life

This interpersonal technique will help you foster genuine connection

These management changes for neurodivergent employees make work more accessible for everyone

How to teach yourself to be more confident