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What to Consider During Your Annual Evaluation When It Comes to Boardroom Diversity

N2Growth Blog

Boardroom diversity is far from just a hot-button buzzword, and today, it’s well understood that diversity is never recommended simply for the sake of “checking a box.” ” The truth is that boardroom diversity brings immense benefits to the CEO, the entire organization, shareholders, and the board itself.

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New Live Course: Business & Racial Awareness Starts Friday

Modern Servant Leader

About the Course. I said everything I thought a supportive, intelligent, diversity-endorsing professional was supposed to say: “I don’t see color” “I treat everyone the same” “Our homogeneous employee base reflects our community” I was wrong. Seats are limited. Sessions start Friday.

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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

A recent study from Carnegie Mellon suggests that diverse teams are more likely to make successful pivots than their more homogenous peers. The research reveals that businesses established in dynamic environments tend to have a longer survival rate when their founding teams exhibit greater functional diversity.

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Laura Kriska | How Leaders Close The Us Versus Them Gap In The Workplace

Tanveer Naseer

Of course, those divisive issues found in various communities and countries inevitably spill into the workplace. My guest for this episode of my “Leadership Biz Cafe” podcast, Laura Kriska, not only has the answer, but she has a proven process for how leaders can succeed at creating a more diverse and inclusive organizational culture.

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Board Governance Excellence: The Pinnacle of Organizational Success

N2Growth Blog

It’s the board’s prerogative to chart a strategic course, oversee the operational ambit, and instill a culture of accountability—morphing it into a cornerstone of organizational governance. A crucial facet of the board’s role is to exercise oversight and gauge the performance of the executive cadre.

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Creating A Diverse And Inclusive Work Environment

The Horizons Tracker

This is despite the benefits of diversity being increasingly well established. For instance, MIT research shows that diverse workforces were especially beneficial because they were more likely to yield the kind of creative breakthroughs seen at NASA in the 1960s. Lackluster change. Why you want to change. Employees? Knowing your gap.

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9 Tips for Navigating the Inevitable Unexpected

Leading Blog

A LL COMPANIES begin with a vision. Some fail for a host of strategic or operational shortcomings addressed in any decent business school course. Over the course of five years, these events will occur frequently enough that your ability to address them will likely determine whether your business succeeds or fails.

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