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The Diversity Dividend: How Balancing Your Leadership Team Can Pay Off

Strategy Driven

The call for greater diversity at senior leadership levels is not new, although it has itself become more inclusive, extending beyond gender, race and ethnicity, to encompass age, education, socioeconomic background and sexual orientation, as well as experience, skills and talent. As early as 2004, research by Catalyst, Inc.

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Benefits of Communication Training for Businesses

Strategy Driven

McKinsey & Company’s report underscores that robust client communication strategies breed customer retention and positive referrals. Thus, communication training acts as a toolkit that delves deeper than surface-level problem-solving—as a result, fostering understanding and constructive dialogue.

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Love Your Ex-Employees and They’ll Love You Back

Harvard Business Review

But the question deserves better than executive hand-offs to HR, McKinsey, or Myers-Briggs. Just as harsh criticisms by exes demoralize and disrupt, their constructive contributions can have as profound an impact on human capital brands as current employees. That’s because love creates great expectations. Insight Center.

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How the Best Board Directors Stay Involved

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey research suggests that the most effective directors are meeting these challenges by spending twice as many days a year on board activities as other directors do. We recently discussed some of these tensions with board members and executives at Prium, a New York-based forum for CEOs (in which McKinsey participates).

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How Managers Can Promote Healthy Discussions About Race

Harvard Business Review

Cordoning off diversity and inclusion efforts in a single department signals those issues aren’t priorities, making challenging conversations easier to avoid. One company my firm worked with in the insurance sector engaged in customized diversity and inclusion training over the course of three years.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

There are many capable consultants ranging from one person independent contractors to large multi-national firms like McKinsey & Company. Different approaches include: Strategically focused research – this is constructive research with the greatest likelihood of creating practical and commercial applications. human judgment.

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Just How Powerful Are You?

Harvard Business Review

And of course, premiere venture capitalists talk with pride about "pattern recognizing" for success, signaling that they typically fund a 23-year old from Stanford over say, women, people of color, or those with a more diverse life experience. It's a win-lose construct. So, which is it?

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