Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 10, 2015

This diversity stuff doesn’t work. Feeling internal and external pressure to have more diversity, some companies define diversity as “making the numbers,” and task Human Resources (HR) with hiring more women and minorities. That’s typically the beginning and end of attention companies give to becoming more diverse.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

If he had taken his research out of the office, Mark would have found that Jennifer felt very strongly about her local identity and bought her vegetables from a local organic cooperative; at the same time, she was concerned about global issues and invested her savings in Indiegogo , a global crowdfunding platform.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2017

The only area where women pull ahead of men is in human resources, where they account for 71% of all HR managers. Real diversity efforts require organizations to address the social patterns that stifle women’s careers, not just the symptoms that result from them. But these efforts aren’t really working.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

So it's not surprising that we received a striking diversity of entries from every kind of organization and from every corner of the world. Another global retail giant, The Coca-Cola Company, has been celebrated for its water stewardship initiative. Hack by Valeria Budinich, Ashoka.

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