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10 Ways to Keep “Post-truth” From Crippling Your Leadership

Lead Change Blog

A few things have happened recently that increase performance pressure on character-based leaders who are dedicated to doing what’s right: The Oxford Dictionary announced the word post-truth as its 2016 word of the year. 3) Encourage healthy debate and diversity of thought , opinion, and perspective. Malcolm Forbes. Isaac Newton.

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The Diversity Dividend: How Balancing Your Leadership Team Can Pay Off

Strategy Driven

The call for greater diversity at senior leadership levels is not new, although it has itself become more inclusive, extending beyond gender, race and ethnicity, to encompass age, education, socioeconomic background and sexual orientation, as well as experience, skills and talent. Moving the needle: Strategies for success. McKinsey & Co.

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How High-Speed Trains Affect The Mobility Of Talent

The Horizons Tracker

The firms are tracked between 2005-2016 to explore the makeup of the boards, and the overall quality of the firms. The researchers believe that the construction of the high-speed train line has had a number of effects on the labor market in the region.

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Hiring Former Offenders

ExactHire - Leadership

A study released by the Center of Economic and Policy Research in 2016 found that the economy loses out on roughly 2 million workers and approximately $80 million in gross domestic product (GDP) by not hiring justice involved job seekers. As a country, we need economic stability, especially now in an unstable global market.

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“Wellth” is the New Wealth

Strategy Driven

As the millennial mindset continues to shift wellness from a mere fad into the mainstream, traditional constructs of personal/professional achievement are actively being replaced with a new appreciation of life goals (and how we reach them). Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

While it’s still early days (we launched this accelerator in early 2016), we believe the accelerator has scored enough successes to prove that the model can work. Many of them could not handle the highly diverse projects that we wanted to support — from algorithms to apps to devices. Give constructive rejections.

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The Type of Purpose That Makes Companies More Profitable

Harvard Business Review

” Oxford University and Ernst and Young found that public dialog on purpose has increased five-fold between 1995 and 2016. We constructed a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of 429 U.S. But is all this talk about purpose actually delivering business results?