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

Women on Business

I sure that most of us are aware of the current studies that prove that having a diverse board (at least 30% women representation) contributes directly to a company’s performance. In fact, companies with more female representation, outperform companies don’t have women.

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Advocacy to Shift Culture

Women on Business

This is very true as it relates to organizations that are working to increase gender diversity at the leadership levels. Bennett Organizations working on raising awareness of inclusiveness and why it is essential for businesses to survive are well served by advocacy programming.

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The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy Versus Process

QAspire

Periodically, they overhaul their structure, add new positions and assign new/diverse responsibilities to people. Also download 25 Things Managers and Leaders Should Never Do [PDF] - - - - - Check out the latest edition of “Carnival of HR” at John Hunter’s Curious Cat Management Improvement blog.

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QAspire Blog 2009 – Essential Posts Redux

QAspire

Two diverse experiences shaped up this post and lessons learned from these experiences are still very relevant. I also included this example in a leadership training I delivered to a group of middle managers in my organization. This post documents observations from Geese flying in V shape and what we can learn from them. Don’t Kill It!

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More of Us Are Working in Big Bureaucratic Organizations than Ever Before

Harvard Business Review

Writing for the Harvard Business Review in 1988, Peter Drucker predicted that in 20 years the average organization would have slashed the number of management layers by half and shrunk its managerial ranks by two-thirds. Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. in 2001 to 16% in 2015.

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Too Big to Manage: JP Morgan and the Mega Banks

Harvard Business Review

Are these huge major financial institutions not just too big to fail, their leaders “too big to jail” (as some critics charge), but also “too big to manage”? Some of these problems occurred before the 2008 crisis and some since then. CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity.

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HR Chiefs Who Propel Organizational Performance

Harvard Business Review

In organizations like IBM, Lowe's, and Harvard Vanguard where HR has accelerated change, it has emerged from its compliance and administrative focus to make bold changes in spite of regulations, bureaucratic entanglements, and other barriers. Coco and Beaird relish talking operations with line managers.