Workplace Wrangler By Mark Craemer on February 24, 2021 at 10:00 AM
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I’ve recently discovered that while many people don’t feel comfortable making small talk, some minimize its importance as a leadership trait. Why bother chatting about insignificant things when more important business matters should be prioritized?
The verbal interaction between two people who just meet is an opportunity to make a connection. It has the potential to expand your network by discovering what you may share and how you may be able to help each other. It’s good to remember that you can learn something from anyone. You just have to open up and discover what that may be.
I want to be reflective about it, says Immelt, who now lectures at Stanford University s Graduate School of Business. I don t want to hide.
In 2001, Immelt, who had previously held executive positions at GE for 19 years, was picked to succeed Jack Welch, one of the most famous CEOs in U.S. history. Under Welch, GE s market value soared from $14 billion to more than $410 billion.
Immelt s run wasn t so fruitful.
He took the helm on Sept. 7, 2001, four days before 9/11. The impact of the terrorist attacks battered several of GE s businesses, causing shares to plunge 20%, Immelt writes in Hot Seat. Seven years later, the 2008 financial crisis hit GE s financial services division, GE Capital, which nearly collapsed.
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Pandemic caused ‘staggering’ economic, human impact in developing counties, research says
Edward Lempinen
21 February 2021
As the impact of the coronavirus pandemic surged, women in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, crowded in a line to get aid. The pandemic caused devastating loss of income and food insecurity in Bangladesh and eight other countries in the global south, according to new research co-authored at the University of California, Berkeley. (Photo: UN Women/Fahad Abdullah Kaizer | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year led to a devastating loss of jobs and income across the global south, threatening hundreds of millions of people with hunger and lost savings and raising an array of risks for children, according to new research co-authored at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Ravenswood Solutions appoints new CEO and CFO
February 11, 2021 GMT
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FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, the Ravenswood Solutions Board of Directors appointed two new members to the Ravenswood Solutions executive team. Mr. Kipp F. Peppel has been appointed as President and CEO of the company following the retirement of the company’s founding President and CEO, Mr. Daniel Donoghue. Mr. Peppel also joined Ravenswood’s Board of Directors. In addition, the Board selected Peter F. Kuebler to serve as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO).