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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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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. The Most Talked About Barrier- Work/Life Balance There are many many role models and examples of women. Advancement of Women – the Barriers We know the barrers to the advancement of women in.

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. We need to look to leadership examples of truly radical, innovative, in-your-face teams like that at Nucor Steel. How sad is this?

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Lessons from the Best Global Brands 2010: Building trust and.

Strategy Driven

Santander, which made its debut on this year’s list, is a best-case example of a brand that stayed true to its brand promise and saw it pay off. Santander has also done a good job at leveraging its promising position, by embarking on a number of aggressive acquisitions since 2008. As a result, it is a brand that consumers can trust.

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Relational Leadership and Employee Retention – A Match, part 2.

Strategy Driven

This book will explore how our institutional leaders can make claim once again to ethical, fair, and purposeful practices that underscore the value of human beings as the linchpins of our society. For example, Discover Bank held monthly meetings of all staff by location and shift. It is possible to be hard-nosed and caring.

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

Harvard Business Review

In the United Kingdom, for example, the employment share of managers and supervisors increased from 12.9% Notice how rapidly the thicket of bureaucracy grew back after being pruned in the wake of the 2008 recession. Who else is going to meet all those new compliance requirements around diversity, risk mitigation and sustainability?

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Too Big to Manage: JP Morgan and the Mega Banks

Harvard Business Review

But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Some of these problems occurred before the 2008 crisis and some since then. CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. trillion in assets ,$1.1