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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. It is time now to announce the 100 Coaches. 100 COACHES.

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Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team

Harvard Business Review

But there is a deeper lesson to my story that I hope will help others build exceptional, and exceptionally diverse, teams. Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills.

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

Over the last five years there has been a substantial increase in the number of leading business schools offering courses to meet this demand. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing.

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How the Best Board Directors Stay Involved

Harvard Business Review

.” For boards seeking to boost their level of engagement between meetings, experimentation and course correction when things get out of balance are likely to be necessary. Directors have long assumed responsibility for selecting and replacing CEOs, both in the normal course of business and in “hit by a bus” scenarios.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

In our opinion, which of the two is the more successful depends on the context in which the business operates. Of course more often than not you would find out that such extreme customization is not profitable. Quite a respectable performance for a company operating in a fairly mature industry. Quite to the contrary.

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business Review

Even though these sectors also qualified as “clean energy,” the capabilities they required were too diverse to manage. Chasing growth won’t help them (or you); the only viable alternative is to build the kind of company that enables you to grow as a matter of course. How do we add value in ways that others do not?