Anne Bahr Thompson

Feb 23, 2022

Time to get purposeful about purpose: 10 guidelines to connect employees to purpose

PURPOSE. It’s a loaded word. Both for corporations and individuals. And while today’s focus on purpose makes us think it’s a new concept, it’s not. For centuries, spiritualists, existentialists, religious scholars and the like have explored the purpose and meaning of life. Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “The number…

Employee Engagement

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Time to get purposeful about purpose: 10 guidelines to connect employees to purpose

Employee Engagement

9 min read

Jul 8, 2021

Will Jassy and two new leadership principles move Amazon from a big data behemoth to the World’s Best Employer?

The article includes an excerpt on Amazon from Do Good, Chapter 4 — Trust. As I’ve been reading the news about Jeff Bezo’s trip to space, Andy Jassy’s ascension to Amazon’s CEO seat and the brand’s two new management principles — Strive to be the Earth’s Best Employer and Success…

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Will Jassy and two new leadership principles move Amazon from a big data behemoth to the World’s…

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Jul 3, 2020

Agility, clarity, sincerity, and WE before ME define game play today

The most successful businesses have always continuously evolved to stay relevant and remain competitive. Yet sometimes it takes a crisis to jolt our best intentions into action. Whether that crisis affects a business, an industry or, in the case of the novel coronavirus pandemic and the systemic problems it has…

Purpose

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Agility, clarity, sincerity, and WE before ME define game play today

Purpose

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Jun 16, 2020

BRAND CITIZENSHIP: a mechanism for positive change in an ever-evolving, shape-shifting world

2020 prologue In June 2018, I had the honor of giving the opening keynote at the Beauty of Sourcing with Respect Conference in Paris hosted by Union for Ethical Biotrade (UEBT). …

Sustainability

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Sustainability

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