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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. And you need to lead inclusively.

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10 Common Thinking Errors Leaders Make

Mark Sanborn

Examples: A CEO ignores market research that suggests a new product will not be well-received because he or she firmly believes it’s a good idea. A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective.

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People Suffer at Work When They Can’t Discuss the Racial Bias They Face Outside of It

Harvard Business Review

Last month, in an unprecedented show of solidarity, 150 CEOs from the world’s leading companies banded together to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace and, through an online platform, shared best practices for doing so. But as Tim Ryan, U.S.

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You Don’t Need to Adopt Holacracy to Get Some of Its Benefits

Harvard Business Review

Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. For all of the sturm und drang surrounding the idea, as we talked I realized a lot of holacracy is just codifying many of the informal elements of good management.

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It's OK to Give Shareholders Access to Outside Directors

Harvard Business Review

firms have historically given the CEO and other management members exclusive responsibility for communicating with investors. companies have started demanding direct access to non-management board members in order to assess the quality of board stewardship. In recent years, institutional shareholders in U.S.

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How to Make a Team of Stars Work

Harvard Business Review

While both had top people, one was dramatically more successful in the market. How did the stars at that firm manage to shine brightly together, while those at the other merely twinkled on their own? Teams low in diversity often succumb to groupthink; they agree with each other too quickly and fail to consider novel courses of action.

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How to Choose the Right Protégé

Harvard Business Review

Ed Gadsden, former chief diversity officer at Pfizer, once asked his sponsor, the legal scholar and federal judge Leon Higginbotham, why he took such an interest in him, aside from the fact they were both African American. You’re nothing like me, Ed,” Higginbotham told him. According to our research, a third of U.S. Fill in your gaps.

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