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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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10 Ways to Keep “Post-truth” From Crippling Your Leadership

Lead Change Blog

3) Encourage healthy debate and diversity of thought , opinion, and perspective. Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. Facts are concrete realities verifiable by observation, consistency with the rules of a symbol system such as 2+2=4, or applying objective standards of value such as ‘stealing is wrong.’

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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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Can Bigger Be Faster?

Harvard Business Review

Bio-mechanical systems get more efficient as they get bigger, but they also slow down and become less adaptive. So do social systems like cities and communities. Four strategies were at the core of this transformation: build relationships, establish shared purpose, create shared consciousness, and foster diversity. (1)

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

Harvard Business Review

Even as someone who has studied alternative management movements , I’ve been skeptical about holacracy, which eschews the standard “org chart” for a system of interlocking “circles.” How do you balance cohesion and diversity? What’s really important is to balance cohesion and diversity.

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Creativity Lessons from Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, experts fret that our public school system doesn't foster enough creativity in our future workforce. Wandering around — observing, talking to strangers, taking pictures, inhaling the rich diversity of unfamiliar life, may feel unproductive or even wasteful. But I think the declinism is overwrought.