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In this race to succeed, you want your team to be ready to play their part, and nurturing an intrapreneurial culture helps.   According to PWC’s annual Global CEO survey, 45% of CEOs believe their organization won’t be viable in 10 years if they stay on their current path. The pressure to keep up, perform, outperform, and reinvent what you do and how you do it is never-ending.

Being an entrepreneur can be an isolating experience. But here’s why prioritizing friendship is so important for business leaders. When I launched my business nearly two decades ago, I’d decamp to my local coffee shop every morning while the sky was pitch black and iron out any issues at my fledgling company.

The prescription for kicking our global plastic habit. Throughout my 25-year career as an orthopaedic surgeon and former team physician for the Los Angeles Chargers, I’ve counselled patients and athletes on how best to recover from injury and strengthen their bodies to achieve and maintain peak performance.

The city’s network of blue-green roofs have water-storing technology to help prevent flooding. If you walk up to the roof of a social-housing apartment building in Amsterdam, you’ll see a sprawling garden covered in plants. Hidden under the flowers and grass is an extra layer: a thin reservoir that can store rainwater in storms.

Supporting inclusion for workers with Long COVID requires rethinking many long-standing practices. But it can—and must—be done. We often talk about the impact of COVID-19 on workplaces during the height of the pandemic as if that impact is over. But it is far from over. In the U. S. alone, nearly 18 million people are grappling with Long COVID, and 65% of them are working, even if some had to make adjustments to hours and tasks.

Surrendering to right-wing pressure, major brands like Lowe’s and Harley-Davidson are scaling back diversity initiatives. They risk alienating employees and future customers, these DEI experts say. The dissonance is inescapable. Corporations like Lowe’s, Jack Daniel’s, and Harley-Davidson retreat from DEI despite a drumbeat of reminders that their future customers and employees are the most diverse of our time.