The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 7, 2021

Diversity is generally accepted as a good thing, with MIT research highlighting how diversity within our organizations can boost the bottom line of those businesses. Each participant played the game with an online partner. Global fluency. Only then will we reap the dividend that diverse teams can provide.

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HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

As one of the largest organizations globally, American Express has carved an employer brand as strong as its name in the financial world. Sonia Cargan: At American Express, we are proud of our long history of building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that embraces differences and reflects the values we hold true.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 26, 2017

Many companies, schools, and community organizations benefited from participating. I was so happy to participate in the You Matter Marathon last year. My individual contribution counts, but the You Matter Marathon also has the potential to inspire more people if it can scale up its operations through corporate sponsorship.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is most important for business, the economy and quality of life. I have conducted many diversity audits of companies. I have seen corporate America embrace diversity in many practices, including the workforce and suppliers. Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

“ESG is following something of a similar pattern to diversity, which in the beginning was largely virtue signaling to make it look like organizations really cared,” Columbia University’s Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic says. ” This extends to being active participants in each of the regions in which they operate.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

HR strategies for business growth focus on the hiring and retention of the right talent, but they can also involve active participation in key business decisions by bringing in a grounded angle to the discussion. reported that 63 percent of global workers would begin looking for a new job if they were not allowed to work remotely.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For instance, last year I wrote about the Ocean Discovery XPrize, which had attracted a number of young participants to develop unmanned technologies that are capable of providing high-resolution and rapid mapping of the oceans. Student entrepreneurship. The value of entrepreneurship.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Visual Thinking Workshops Monthly visual thinking workshops were attended by participants from 17 countries through the year. The workshop also went to some of the renowned organizations globally helping people/teams with visual thinking strategies. Listen to all my podcast appearances here.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This fall, I embarked on a worldwide quest to gain insights and perspectives on global leadership in the 21st century. My goal was to meet with a globally diverse group of thought leaders and top executives to discover what is required to lead in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Dawn Frazier-Bohnert, Liberty Mutual Insurance, EVP, Global Diversity Equity & Inclusion Officer, on laying the foundations for a successful global future where intersectionality is celebrated. The HR Digest: What is your vision of diversity at Liberty Mutual? Diversity is about all of us and equity is for all of us.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

The company global headquarters are in London, United Kingdom (Rio Tinto Plc) with the Australian Headquarters in Melbourne, Australia (Rio Tinto Ltd). I started my career in purchasing; migrated to sales and marketing; moved to manufacturing, mining, and then general management in a business operating in 40 countries.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

I believe the companies who have the best chance to survive this cataclysmic event, and any future global pandemics, are the ones that already have a set long-term vision for their organization. Dana Theus of InPower Coaching writes Pay Equity: Why it’s Critical to Diversity and Inclusion Efforts. Find Dana on Twitter at @DanaTheus.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 16, 2012

Guest post by Rick Lash, from the Hay Group: The matrix has often been described as a new type of organizational structure that is flatter, more interconnected, more global and more innovative. The old functional siloed approach is no longer sufficient to solve the demographic and economic challenges that most global companies face today.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

We crowdsourced globally, and received more than 200,000 ideas and reactions. As we continue to bring our culture to life in our operating model and our HR practices, we continue to use surveys, crowdsourcing, focus groups and other tools to ensure our people are heard. How is 3M responding to the COVID-19 crisis? Kristen Ludgate.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

CMI bolsters its presence in Australia Last month, CMI participated in The PIE Live event in Gold Coast, Australia, alongside leaders in international education. We greatly appreciate the continuous support and active involvement of our CMI members in Singapore and look forward to another year of further growth for CMI Singapore!

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CMI bolsters its presence in Australia Last month, CMI participated in The PIE Live event in Gold Coast, Australia, alongside leaders in international education. The event was a success, as the participants had a great time learning from each other and building networks professionally. Learn more here.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2015

Guest post from Ted Bagley: All organizations worry about leadership, from the mom and pop community businesses to the giant global entities both domestic and international. He is the vice president of global human resources operations for Amgen Biotechnical Corporation, the world’s largest biotechnical company.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

The United States, once a world leader in gender equality, now lags behind other similarly wealthy nations in women’s economic participation. America ranks number six in women’s economic participation and opportunity on the World Economic Forum’s 2013 Gender Gap Index of 136 countries. About the Author.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The primary step involves an objective assessment to determine operational efficiency and effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Diversity is both an issue of fairness and, some say, a driver of innovation and performance. To assess the latter claim, we undertook a large, cross-country study into the relationship between multiple aspects of managerial diversity, the presence of enabling conditions such as leadership support for diversity, and innovation outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

If you've had a bad experience with an operational improvement effort (like Six Sigma or Business Reengineering), or if you haven't given it much attention lately, you should take a fresh look. Because of this increased diversity and scope of adoption, the learnings are deeper. But improvement has improved.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. It can empower people to take a point of view and allow the organization to benefit from diverse points of view. It can help them innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

What skills do today’s executives need to develop to become effective global leaders of tomorrow? The capacity to simultaneously develop a global and local perspective. “That requires a tremendous amount of intercultural empathy and a passion for diversity in life experiences.” ” Get Lost.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Since early 2015, when he began working with Sodexo’s executive committee as the global services firm’s chief transformation officer, Sunil Nayak has undergone his own leadership transformation. Nayak is describing a set of competencies that employees must master if they are to become leaders on the global stage.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The promise of global progress has become a reality for many — but not for all. Our global narrative of progress, the implicit case for embracing change in exchange for its fruits, is being increasingly called into question by economically marginalized groups and populist politicians across the globe.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Diversity of society is reflected in service. Re-involving those who have given, volunteered and participated in the past. Humanity as the basis for global peace and understanding. Volunteering, as time permits and worthy causes appear. Helping others.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Today, we’re talking with Dr. Terri Cooper, the Global Sector Leader for healthcare and the US national chief inclusion leader for Deloitte. We’re discussing a new Deloitte report around leadership in a diverse new world. The first is diversity of markets. The second is diversity of customers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Lilly Li, a bird-like woman with a pleasant smile, who had been running operations in Hungary for two years, raised her hand: “Trust has been a big challenge for us, as Hungarians do not take the same time to build personal relationships as we do in China.”. The Chinese participants listened carefully.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Add in more diverse identities and the disparity becomes even more apparent. According to the International Labor Organization , the global labor force participation rate for women stands at 47 percent. Equitable workplace strategies for fair compensation involve a diverse workforce as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. The hope was that the diversity of brainpower and perspectives would yield imaginative ways to outgrow the shortfall. There could be C-suite participation, but only as peers; the CEO and board members are excluded.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Dozens of studies have demonstrated that more-diverse teams make better decisions than less-diverse teams. This article is one in a series related to the 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in November 2017 in Vienna, Austria. Many leaders know this but still struggle with making day-to-day work more inclusive.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In To date, 123 “returnees” have participated in the 10 week Goldman program in the U.S., The OnRamp Fellowship operates on a different model. And last week J.P. All of the programs are paid.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The right to win is the ability to enter or participate in any competitive market with the reasonably justified belief that you will succeed and create value. CDS starts with what you as a company do best – better than anyone else – and builds from that internal base of strength in making market participation choices.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

Such a degree of corporate socialization can also stifle innovation and overall cognitive diversity. Peter Fasolo: At our core, Johnson & Johnson is a company that is deeply rooted in the values expressed in Our Credo, which defines how we operate and our expectations for our business and our people.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Many companies have embraced gender diversity initiatives, women's mentoring networks, and leadership development programs with great enthusiasm. The European Business Schools/Women on Boards initiative was launched in September of 2011 as a centerpiece of EC Vice President Reding's efforts to increase gender diversity on boards of directors.

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