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Call Them Opposites. Call Them Paradoxes. Just Manage Them.

Lead Change Blog

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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What is a Great Teammate, and WHY Should You Be One at Your Workplace?

Great Results Team Building

A study conducted by the University of Texas found that diversity in a team can lead to more creative and innovative ideas. By being a great teammate and valuing the perspectives of others, you can contribute to a more creative and innovative team environment. Luckily, I have colected some very interesting statistics for you!

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Our Aim, Vision and Values

Deming Institute

When cooperation supplants competition, and people know what their jobs are and how they contribute to the system. The transformation will release the power of human resource contained in intrinsic motivation. We believe in working together with a spirit of cooperation, collaboration, respect and support.

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Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time

Harvard Business Review

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. 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.

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Let Your Employees Bring Their Interests to Work

Harvard Business Review

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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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Make you more innovative. It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? The value of diverse relationships lies not only in what your contacts can do for you, but also on what you can do for them.

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To Address Gender Bias at Your Company, Start with Teams

Harvard Business Review

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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