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What Your Organization Really Needs from You: Influence and Impact

Leading Blog

L EADERS in today’s multinational, matrixed, diverse business world have impact through their ability to influence others. As a result, Tommy was able to step back and let his team sort out operational problems without his involvement. In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning.

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Trent Henry on Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

HR Digest

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Our focus on innovation in talent is what allows EY people to build meaningful careers with impact.

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Rethinking Digital Transformation: An Interview With Kathleen Wilson-Thompson

HR Digest

I am also a huge champion of diversity, equity and inclusion, and have been across the course of my career. What has been the most challenging decision you’ve ever had to take in your career? In my 17 years at Kellogg, I held positions ranging from Legal, to Operations, to Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources.

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The Top Five Career Regrets

Harvard Business Review

What do you regret most about your career? But judging from the scores of follow-up questions and the volume of post-lecture emails I received, a talk on career regret would have been the real bull's-eye. Importantly, the effects of bad career decisions and disconfirmed expectancies were felt equally across age groups.

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Recruiting for Cultural Fit

Harvard Business Review

And the result could be a formal statement from the CEO defining the organization’s culture or a list of operating cultural norms that govern the way staff interacts with one another — or both. The values and attributes that make up an organizational culture can and should be reflected in a richly diverse workforce.

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Business Wisdom from the Commencement Speakers of 2014

Harvard Business Review

What follows is a short recap of some of the best bits from this year’s commencements, as related to business and career success. But, my friends, one of the best things I’ve done, in summer of 2005, was start painting the wall. The hardest thing I had to learn in my career is that I am not always right.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts.

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