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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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How a Board Search Firm Can Support Organizations

N2Growth Blog

Boardrooms today face new, evolving challenges that are increasingly complex to navigate, and they are under immense pressure and scrutiny to operate at maximum effectiveness. Here’s how a global executive search firm can ultimately allow a Board to operate at its peak performance and empower it to realize its most ambitious goals.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. I’ll take it one step further – I can’t really think of any issue that should be argued or decided solely on the merits of diversity. In fact, let me take it up even another notch…diversity should be a non-issue altogether.

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How Do I Gain Respect When My Team Doesn’t Like Me?

Let's Grow Leaders

Of course, leadership is not about being liked. The Associate Director of Operations on the team, “Greg” was an absolute rock star and was the obvious successor for that role. “It was probably a diversity move.” You’re holding them accountable for the very first time (stay the course!).

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Resourcefulness Matters: How to Help Your Team Be More Resourceful

Let's Grow Leaders

In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” Similarly, if even small decisions require multiple layers of approval, your team will lose energy to try new things. Invest in your network.

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Leadership is a Process!

Lead Change Blog

When you identify what’s possible, it creates hope, energy, and excitement. No, of course not! Work with a diverse, cross-functional group of people and create a list of potential opportunities. You don’t have the time, people, money, and energy to pursue every opportunity that’s identified. Brainstorm.

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How Employees Respond When Activist Investors Get Involved

The Horizons Tracker

While my original article illustrated the ability of investors to prompt firms to take a more positive stance on areas such as climate change or diversity, the INSEAD paper highlights how they can also force a more short-term approach in order to secure financial returns. Lasting impact.

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