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Advancing Gender Diversity in Boardrooms: Success Strategies

N2Growth Blog

Recently, the significance of gender diversity in corporate boardrooms and leadership has gained widespread recognition. Understanding the importance of gender diversity in boardrooms and implementing improvement strategies will continue to be one of the key concepts in the future. However, progress in this direction has been slow.

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Diversity and Inclusion – Two Very Different Concepts

Great Leadership By Dan

You need to de-bias the systems that run the organisation, such as recruitment, pay, procurement, talent management and marketing. Whilst both are important, leadership is the cornerstone, without which all the diversity initiatives in the world will be in vain. Diversity is about the mix of people on your team or in your organisation.

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Decision Making Antonyms and Story Telling

Mike Cardus

The idea of gathering + listening to information that comes from a wide variety (scanning and diversity); allowing-allotting the team to avoid discussing application or synthesis for as long as possible. We can use the antonyms to point to hyperbole or hypocrisy within our work systems. We first agree on the decision to be made.

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How to Make a Team of Stars Work

Harvard Business Review

This proprietary model analyzes six critical team competencies: Balance: How well a team understands the importance of diversity of skills and strengths and is willing to incorporate them. And then there are great sports examples, including Kyle Busch’s amazing six-man NASCAR pit crew. You can and should create an A-team.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Suzlon recently completed its acquisition of Germany-based REpower Systems, gaining access to cutting-edge expertise in aerodynamics and electronics. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Do you have examples of companies that are innovating wisely across geographies? Reliance MediaWorks.

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Want to Build Resilience? Kill the Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Researchers find echoes of this story in other contexts all the time — circumstances where adding safety-enhancements to systems actually makes crisis situations more dangerous, not less so. Imagine further that, if you choose incorrectly, you will push the system into an unrecoverable catastrophe.

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Simple Online Tools to Make Hiring Easier

Harvard Business Review

It can also increase the diversity of the people you hire, which has been shown to increase a firm’s competitive advantage. Here’s an example. The application form I created had countless fields for indicating proficiency in tens of programming languages and IT systems. Few were relevant to the position.

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