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The Advisor’s Corner – How Should I Address Sensitive Subjects With My Staff?

Strategy Driven

Utilize Constructive Feedback skills and methods. Through AskRoxi.com , Roxi — “the Dear Abby of Leadership” — imparts invaluable free advice to managers and leaders at all levels, from the bullpen to the boardroom, to help them solve problems, become more effective and realize a higher measure of business and career success.

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The Problem of Visibility for Women in Engineering, and How They Manage It

Harvard Business Review

In 2014 we interviewed 50 women engineers in three leading FTSE 100 organizations in the UK. All three organizations said they were committed to diversity and were attempting to hire, retain, and promote more women engineers. This was used by early-career women to generate support from colleagues.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries. The disparity in gender diversity has little to do with competence levels.” Wellins, Ph.D.,

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Interviews with 59 Black Female Executives Explore Intersectional Invisibility and Strategies to Overcome It

Harvard Business Review

We sought to understand the barriers they faced, their strategies for ascending through the organization, and the tools they used to manage significant organizational change efforts and navigate career risks. By mid-career, they started strategically taking on risky assignments to become more visible.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

Yet, in an economy whereby 60% of GDP and 85% of exports are derived from oil and gas, the need to diversify is evident, not least due to the decline in oil prices since 2014 that many believe is the new normal and the political and economic blockade that was imposed by some neighboring countries in June 2017.