Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CMI bolsters its presence in Australia Last month, CMI participated in The PIE Live event in Gold Coast, Australia, alongside leaders in international education. The event was a success, as the participants had a great time learning from each other and building networks professionally. Learn more here.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. In the context of the workplace, diversity equals representation. In fact, without inclusion there’s often a diversity backlash.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Cyril Bouquet: Very early on in my academic career, I was part of a research team that was looking into the possible genetic drivers of innovation. As a junior researcher, I had the unenviable task of collecting saliva samples from dozens of participants. This can trip us up throughout the innovation process.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” Moreover, it poses a challenge to the government’s aim of meeting recruitment targets in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly subjects such as physics and mathematics, which heavily rely on the expertise of male teachers. Of course, necessity often prompts change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

These participation gaps are part of an impending crisis for businesses and the entire U.S. million engineering and computer science jobs in the U.S., There’s much work to be done — while participation in computer science among black and Hispanic high schoolers is increasing, it remains low. What companies can do.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in tech, the hiring and retention rates of underrepresented groups in the industry remain abysmal. When I took a look at my workforce two years ago, I saw that I hadn’t created a diverse team. In order for our team to match the diversity of America , we’d need 13.4%

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 1, 2022

In traditional experiments around gender stereotypes, there is a concern that participants say what they think is expected of them rather than their true thoughts. The results emerged from four studies that combined surveys and experiments to try and capture the beliefs of a diverse group of children from 1st grade through to 12th grade.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

” A highly cited 2015 report on diversity in Silicon Valley by an Asian professional organization found that at five big tech firms (Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo), Asians and Asian Americans are well represented in lower-level positions but underrepresented at management and executive levels. Implications.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Any company that wants to improve collaboration, break down so-called siloes, or live into its diversity goals will be well-served by pursuing a deeper understanding of each. While communities of origin and growth currently attract the most attention from HR leaders, we think communities of aspiration deserve more attention.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Many hold deeply satisfying careers themselves. When women start companies they quite naturally create more permeable and diverse management teams, having worked on gender diverse teams, or, conversely, having seen the pitfalls of being the token woman in a homogenous grouping. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A diverse group of local leaders — private, public, philanthropic, and nonprofit — fed up with the dysfunction around them, come together to challenge conventional wisdom and fix problems long written off as unsolvable, such as poverty, unemployment, and a failing education system.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Here, real estate developers and managers can orient their tenant selection around companies that provide higher-paying, family-supporting jobs with pathways for upward mobility and careers. The results of Union Market’s efforts to curate and encourage a diverse group of entrepreneurs have been promising.

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ExactHire - Leadership

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Or the straightforward “Age of Automation,” as coined by a self-described former Mechanical Engineer on a Quora forum. Today’s workforce simply isn’t willing to sacrifice their personal life for their career. And do your new employees have an opportunity to participate in the mission so that their individual roles have meaning?

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ExactHire - Leadership

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Or the straightforward “Age of Automation,” as coined by a self-described former Mechanical Engineer on a Quora forum. Today’s workforce simply isn’t willing to sacrifice their personal life for their career. And do your new employees have an opportunity to participate in the mission so that their individual roles have meaning?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

As a result of a deeply engrained deference to authority, Asians in the CWLP survey are also significantly less likely than other ethnic groups to challenge a consensus, let alone participate in the "in your face" leadership model rewarded in much of corporate America. "In In Asia, there's a saying that the loudest duck gets shot. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

Evidence shows that women in academic medicine experience greater challenges finding mentors and sponsors than men, and that this gap likely contributes to career disparities. found that 30% of women (compared to 4% of men) had experienced sexual harassment from a superior or colleague in their careers. Career flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In one manufacturing company, a task force learned that leaders tended to hire and promote people, mainly men, whose backgrounds and careers resembled their own. They had good reasons for this behavior: Experienced engineers were hard to find, and time constraints pressured leaders to fill roles quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. This is also why Silicon Valley has become the go-to place for the digital labs of companies from a diverse array of “traditional” industries (such as GE, Walmart, Daimler-Benz, and the like).

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The universities believe that participating in these challenges give students a host of skills that are invaluable in the workplace today, not least of which are the softer skills such as collaboration and team work that have been cited as vital by researchers. Finding heroes. ” Broad experience. Coding for success.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Backing them up are legions of qualified and ambitious women who, increasingly, are the engines powering China's economic juggernaut. New research from the Center for Work-Life Policy (CWLP) explores and analyzes the complicated career dynamics of this rich talent pool. The payoff?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

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.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

After 12 years, 50% of technical women, predominately in engineering and computer science, had switched to other fields; 20% of other women professionals had done the same. “A lot of characteristics for the men are seen as assets but are not liked in women,” said one focus group participant. He is quick; she is agitated.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Former Google engineer James Damore was hardly the first person to argue that biological differences between men and women determine career outcomes. Many people — even smart, science-minded ones — have asserted that biological differences can explain the gender gap in math, engineering, and science.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

From his fertile mind came the light bulb and the phonograph, along with more than 1,000 other patented inventions over a 60-year career. Innovations most often arise from the interplay of ideas that occur during the interactions of people with diverse expertise, experience, or points of view. But he didn’t work alone.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

In addition, several manufacturers have recently created a new frontline role, IT manufacturing engineer, with dotted-line reporting to both OT and IT. Amazon openly shares its Career Choice program with other companies, which trains entry-level workers, mostly in warehouses, for higher-paying careers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

You may have to learn some intensive juggling, but evidence we’ve gathered from a study of fascinating people from many walks of life suggests that sometimes more — a lot more — is better, especially when “more” entails a diversity of tasks. They are true to their passions. They refuse to fit neatly into a box.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

If the hum of your career has become so deafening that you struggle to hear those other parts of your life, you’re not alone. For example, in one of our studies we talked to people participating in athletic events that raise money for a charitable cause (e.g., a bike ride for a children’s hospital in Israel).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The research of decision scientists reveals that our best strategy for tackling these problems is to harness cognitive diversity, because groups do better than individuals, including those with the highest IQs. Diversity, as Scott Page puts it, trumps ability. Structured deliberation is key.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The research of decision scientists reveals that our best strategy for tackling these problems is to harness cognitive diversity, because groups do better than individuals, including those with the highest IQs. Diversity, as Scott Page puts it, trumps ability. Structured deliberation is key.

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