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Hiring the Best People – You’ve got it all wrong!

HR Digest

During the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC), BCG and the European Association for People Management surveyed 3,400 executives, including 90 senior human resources leaders in more than 30 countries, to see how they were responding. Start by benchmarking your current hiring processes. Casting a wide net. Keep it real.

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. Each rung on the ladder is important.

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Mentoring and Lifelong Learning

Strategy Driven

I have had many excellent ones in my long career and have in turn mentored hundreds of others. The mentor becomes a role model, offering insights about their own life-career. The mentor stands for mentees throughout their careers and celebrates their successes. ” Approach your career as a body of work.

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Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?

Harvard Business Review

My senior year in college, a black sales rep from IBM encouraged me and a group of fellow black students to consider a career with the company. It offered a competitive salary and extensive training, and it could point to several minority leaders in management. The job began my long career in the high-tech industry.

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It Pays to Become a B Corporation

Harvard Business Review

According to Chris McAllister , vice president for reputation management and public affairs at Nielsen, companies engaged in “sincerely-driven” CSR must work harder to convince consumers of this fact. ” Benchmarking and Operational Cost Savings. This multi-faceted project also helped Cabot win the 2016 U.S.

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How Deloitte Made Learning a Game

Harvard Business Review

"Training is a funny thing," James Sanders, Manager of Innovation at Deloitte Consulting, told me recently. "No billion business by 2016, and 70 percent of Global 2000 businesses will be managing at least one "gamified" application or system by 2014. The technology research firm Gartner , Inc.

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INTERVIEW: Philip Morris International’s Charles Bendotti on Emerging Contemporary Workplace Culture

HR Digest

Through culture, organizations are able to establish and manage their sustainability goals such as social impact, environmental footprint, employee engagement, satisfaction, etc. What do you say have been the most important transformations in your career?