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Middle management is a vital yet beleaguered role within organizations. Managers face pressures from above and below, they tend to be both underdeveloped and unempowered, and they face growing pressure to deliver in flatter, faster, and leaner organizational structures, all of which leads to being underutilized and unappreciated. The findings of a new McKinsey Global Survey…

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the impor­tance of digitalization in supporting access to essential healthcare services in the most remote areas. With the largest disease burden globally and the most limited healthcare resources, Africa has an opportunity to use the lessons learned during the pandemic to expand its use of digital health tools (see sidebar “What…

In 2022, mobility was . . . on the move. This was a year of transition, which included some leaps forward and some retrenchments. A few indicators of disruption became quite visible—even part of daily life. More and more electric vehicles (EVs) can now be seen cruising down the roads. Newly installed charging points are…

          A new wave of regulations, including the rewriting of the EcoDesign lighting regulations and the removal of the mercury exemptions for lighting means fluorescent lamps will be banned in the UK from September 2023 says Kevan Shaw, Design Director at Kevan Shaw Lighting Design Lighting regulations have had a massive…

    The trend for remote work was rising for years before the COVID tsunami hit. At that time, most of the concern was around how this new way of working impacted individuals – questions like: “How do you as a leader need to do to get the most from your teams when you weren’t…

  As we head into spring, be sure to welcome employees and customers with a property that not only looks clean but also is clean. Snow, ice, salt, and calcium can leave their mark on a facility, whether it’s a shopping center, a college or hospital campus, an office complex, an amusement or a recreational…