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Advancing Gender Diversity in Boardrooms: Success Strategies

N2Growth Blog

Recently, the significance of gender diversity in corporate boardrooms and leadership has gained widespread recognition. Currently, women hold less than a third of director positions in public company boardrooms. Currently, women hold less than a third of director positions in public company boardrooms.

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Boards Need To Up Their Game In Terms Of Cognitive Diversity

The Horizons Tracker

Diversity has long been recognized in terms of its importance to things like innovation and creativity, with research from MIT showing how cognitive diversity improves the profitability of organizations. Such diversity can have costs, however, as paper from Wharton illustrates. Constructive disagreement.

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How To Act And Think Like A Leader

Eric Jacobson

Reach out to three people in your company you always wanted to get to know and ask them for lunch or coffee. Here are three ways to do things at your office tomorrow : Sign up for one new project, task-force, professional association or extracurricular professional activity that takes you a bit outside your usual area of expertise.

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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”.

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Navigating the Mental Minefield: A Guide for Leaders

Mark Sanborn

Embrace Diverse Opinions: Consult individuals with different perspectives, including team members and external advisors. Groupthink: The Consensus Conundrum The Trap: The desire for group harmony can lead to unchallenged decision-making and potentially flawed outcomes.

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Don’t Hire For Culture Fit

LDRLB

The idea is that if someone is a good fit for your company culture, you can train them on the skills they need. Thus, began a series of books, articles, and interviews with company founders and human resource officers about how they added a “culture fit” interview to the stages of their hiring process.

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Don’t Hire For Culture Fit

LDRLB

The idea is that if someone is a good fit for your company culture, you can train them on the skills they need. Thus, began a series of books, articles, and interviews with company founders and human resource officers about how they added a “culture fit” interview to the stages of their hiring process.