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How Work Placements Can Improve Diversity In Engineering

The Horizons Tracker

The opportunity to gain experience in the workplace is tremendously important when embarking on your career, but such opportunities are not equally available. One’s connections, financial status and personal circumstances all play a part in the availability of placement opportunities.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

Gordon Berridge: Our readers, with mining knowledge, will be will be familiar with the name Sam Walsh and Rio Tinto, but to provide a complete sketch of your background, would you please share a brief summary of your career history? I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

It is noted nowadays that, within metropolises like Hong Kong and many other budding cities in the Greater Bay area, there is a great need to introduce business administration skills into the legal industry, and, at the same time, emphasise legal perspectives and legal compliance within the business administration sector.

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5 Leadership Modes for Team Success

Skip Prichard

Resetting and rebalancing life and career is on many people’s minds during a pandemic. We are witnessing the most progressive organizations operate as engines for learning. Other ‘strategies’ that were once cosmetic, including diversity and inclusion, have been revealed to be both good for the bottom line and for human betterment.

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Can You Push Diversity Without Creating Resentment?

Harvard Business Review

I was speaking at The Economist's Diversity Summit last month in London where most of the talk was about gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and scorecards. A typical syllabus among Heads of Diversity. They mutter about quality, compliance and competence. The explosion of dual careers is making managers everywhere less mobile.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates.