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Leading a Multicultural Team

Center for Creative Leadership

Managing a multicultural team can be a rewarding experience, giving leaders the opportunity to work closely with employees from diverse backgrounds and offering the chance for personal and professional growth. It’s easy for misunderstandings to occur on a diverse team, simply due to cultural differences. Applied Research Award.

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

Strategy Driven

This means no individual who holds a leadership role is off the hook. Utilize Constructive Feedback skills and methods. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Advisor’s Corner – Does working smarter, not harder apply to leadership positions? About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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Attention Leaders: Five Attitudes to Take to work in 2014

You're Not the Boss of Me

I’m posting it again because well, I think it continues to be relevant in 2014. However, if you have something that would make the workplace of 2014 much better, attitude-wise, I encourage you to share it. That makes valuing diversity a business imperative. I expect the coming year would be the richer for it.

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How Women Drive Innovation and Growth

Harvard Business Review

This "power of the purse" is growing rapidly; expectations are that it will swell to $18 trillion by 2014. Specifically, we find that companies fail to realize the full innovative potential of women in their midst because leadership either doesn''t know how to elicit their insights or lacks the perspective necessary to endorse their ideas.

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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.”

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

Harvard Business Review

Black women continue to be sorely underrepresented in leadership roles in corporate America. We conducted interviews around the years 2007 and 2014 — one year before and 6-7 years after the global financial crisis, when many businesses faced new challenges. Currently, they make up 12.7% of the U.S. Climbing Glass Cliffs.

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?