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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. I’ll take it one step further – I can’t really think of any issue that should be argued or decided solely on the merits of diversity. In fact, let me take it up even another notch…diversity should be a non-issue altogether.

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50 Years of Diversity Training – How Far Have We Really Come?

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Diversity training formally debuted in the 1960s to ensure companies were policy compliant and protecting themselves. That’s according to the history of diversity training timeline from Elizabeth Lisican of Diversity Executive. 1979: McDonald’s Corp. 1979: McDonald’s Corp.

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The Role Prediction Markets Play In Assessing Climate Risk

The Horizons Tracker

Prediction markets are often highly effective means of bringing together diverse perspectives, and have been shown to outperform individuals and teams in a wide range of tasks. In other words, an initial stake could be provided by a sponsor, with this then distributed to participants based on the information they contribute to the market.

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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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How Inequality Affects Our Grocery Choices

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers examined the disparities in income distribution across over 1,700 counties in the United States from 2007 to 2013. “The conventional wisdom is that greater inequality means that we have greater diversity of desires, and that this should increase the number of product offerings in the store.

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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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Professional Women Still Marginalized

Strategy Driven

The United States, once a world leader in gender equality, now lags behind other similarly wealthy nations in women’s economic participation. America ranks number six in women’s economic participation and opportunity on the World Economic Forum’s 2013 Gender Gap Index of 136 countries. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.