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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Common examples include: “It’s just the way things are done here.” “If Drawing inspiration from metaphorical applications of guerrilla warfare and coup d’état strategies, this paper proposes a series of approaches to empower individuals and collectives to challenge and overturn these clichés (Roberts, 2019).

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. It could help boost pay equality Tips and tools to help you navigate the slippery slope of business ethics Lessons from Britain’s Most Admired Companies on leading with integrity Should pets be allowed in the office?

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Stretch Assignments for High Potential Employees

CO2

Convince upper management to support a proposal. Managing diversity. Lead people from different cultures, gender, or racial or ethic backgrounds. Lead a team with extensive gender and racial diversity. What Makes a Developmental Experience Challenging? Characteristics of developmental challenge. Description.

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The “Business in Society” Imperative for CEOs

Harvard Business Review

election and Brexit are only the most recent examples of the pervasive, burgeoning importance to corporations of business-in-society issues. In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. But the U.S.

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Women Directors Change How Boards Work

Harvard Business Review

The examples are numerous: Citing private internal research of 20,000 client teams, EY’s vice chair Beth Brooke has said that the more diverse teams had higher profitability and great client satisfaction than non-diverse teams. In addition, diverse boards that were not properly managed created distrust and dissatisfaction.

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Why – and How – to Hire Young People Without Diplomas

Harvard Business Review

When an executive at global services firm UBS Americas challenged trainees to design a cost-saving strategy, one young woman proposed that the company install software that puts a computer into sleep mode after a period of inactivity. As remarkable as this is, it isn’t an isolated example. Fill critical skills gaps.

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.