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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

Diversity is an overused word, but at Chevron it’s a perfect description of its corporate culture. The company’s 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report highlights how diversity and inclusion (D&I) feature so centrally in the company’s success story. Efforts to bring more diversity to the oil and gas industry are working.

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Does The Age Of A Board Affect Company Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

The study looked at data from big companies in the S&P 1500 list from 1992 to 2016. This might be because they don’t need as much advice from their top executives on technology-related issues. The study found that if that was the case, firms seem to be “more” innovative than normal.

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Driving Success through the Employee Experience

HR Digest

The world is rapidly changing—new technology, new competitors, new opportunities— and with it comes new ideas and insights. A strong leader is constantly expanding their knowledge, searching for diverse perspectives, and growing their networks. The best leaders are those who are willing and eager to continue learning.

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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. easy to do.

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Why Diversity Hiring Is Important

ExactHire - Leadership

Diversity is complicated, and that’s why most companies fail to meet their Diversity, Equity & Inclusion goals. Businesses tend to see diversity as a numbers issue. But emphasizing statistics ignores the uncomfortable factors that lead to poor diversity. These factors make conversations around diversity difficult.

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Stefan Ries on SAP’s Most Comprehensive Workforce Skills Upgrade

HR Digest

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. We needed to shift faster to public cloud and new technologies such as IoT, machine learning, SAP Cloud Platform and advanced analytics.

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Tracy Layney Makes Way for Her Vision

HR Digest

we’re committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive company and culture. We’ve seen the positive impact of paid leave in our employees’ lives since we introduced paid parental leave in 2016. This includes valuing diversity, equity and inclusion, and I am proud to say that 58% of the LS&Co.