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The Big Picture of Business – Diversity is Important for Business

Strategy Driven

Diversity is most important for business, the economy and quality of life. I have conducted many diversity audits of companies. I have seen corporate America embrace diversity in many practices, including the workforce and suppliers. Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues.

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Is a Corporate Board Seat in Your Future? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

By Bonnie Marcus This past week I had the opportunity to not only attend the MA Conference for Women, but also to participate in a leadership panel about women and corporate board positions. In fact, companies with more female representation, outperform companies don’t have women.

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Leveraging Military Leadership for Civilian Success

Strategy Driven

At its core, this intensive program, which is offered free of charge to participants, is about tapping into the world-class development that our soldiers, airmen, marines, and sailors have received during their military tenure and repackaging and repurposing it for civilian application. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Lock in and Engage Top Talent | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

P romote Participation. Share information about organizational goals and resources to enable staff to set realistic individual goals. Rather than having just a replacement mentality, human resources needs a more strategic approach to the situation—one that finds answers to the coming high turnover.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Expert teachers (fountains of learning material) are the building block in the educational process, and the student must be an active participant (rather than a non-involved or combative roadblock). Human Resources Oversees Training. Mentorship (which has seven levels) is a stairstep process of bettering all participants.

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How to Improve the Engagement and Retention of Young Hourly Workers

Harvard Business Review

They shared five key insights for employers looking to improve retention and engagement, including how to improve manager training, diversity and inclusion, and scheduling. Work toward inclusion, not just diversity. In 2007, it created a program for teens and young adults facing barriers to employment called This Way Ahead.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

According to my current research at Harvard on innovation models in global companies across diverse sectors, these types of projects fail between 70% and 90% of the time.This should be a deeply troubling, motivating statistic. And it’s one that stems from a very human problem in most big organizations.