Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Statements like that of the Silicon Valley engineer who expressed resentment at his manager’s demands by saying, “[he] doesn’t have two kids and a wife, he has people that live in his house, that’s basically what he has,” as reported by Marianne Cooper, are increasingly common among younger men. Diversity Gender Work life balance'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In The three new Wall Street programs follow a similar formula to Returnship in terms of timing and small class size. The OnRamp Fellowship operates on a different model. And last week J.P.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

When I ask business people to define culture—or even when I ask students in my class on organizational culture to do so—it turns out to be difficult. And, of course, many of the people who operate inside a group do not actually share the values espoused as belonging to the organizational culture.

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Waterman Company Definition Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Instead, it operates more like GE. Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. Conglomerates resist this approach, combining more diverse businesses and allowing them separate decision-making structures. Investors are wary of this approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Since humans began cooperating, and also began failing to, there have been, among the under-appreciated drivers of human misery, the three Rs of payback: retaliation, redirected aggression, and revenge. A reputation for effective retaliation may well reduce the likelihood that a victim will be similarly targeted in the future.

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