HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

By recognizing and rewarding these strengths, employers can create a diverse and dynamic team. Writes clearly and effectively in both formal and informal settings. Keeps others informed and up-to-date on relevant information. Asks thoughtful questions to gather information and clarify understanding.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. In recent years a body of research has revealed another, more nuanced benefit of workplace diversity: nonhomogenous teams are simply smarter. Let’s dig into why diverse teams are smarter. They Focus More on Facts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity. Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Assembling and managing diverse teams is hard work. How to get started?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 30, 2011

And somehow, while civility remained (for the most part anyway), a spirit of collaboration, where people shared information and resources freely to achieve something important together was rare. Share Freely Sharing information and assets between and among various concerns is fundamental to effective collaboration.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. These choices historically conferred advantage – first-mover, scale – but asset-based scale advantages have diminished in recent years, thanks to technology, cheap information, and outsourcing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

How women are perceived — how they dress, talk, their "executive presence," capacity to "fill a room," leadership style and public image — has been the object of vast, well-intentioned efforts to get more women to the top. But, at the same time, they must "tone it down" or risk being labeled as having sharp elbows.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Yet concern that outside directors may divulge material, non-public information can be minimized through a briefing with management beforehand or scheduling engagement meetings to follow earnings reports and other significant announcements. In sharp contrast to the Commonsense Principles, the U.K. As I have written previously , U.S.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

A professional with proven ability to manage change and work across diverse areas, as required, can be a great asset to an organization. Do informational interviews with people who do the jobs you're interested in, try to get some additional work experience. After an initial cut-down of your options, learn more and then try them out.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Whether major investors on a board add or subtract value has become a contentious debate of the era, fueled by a sharp rise in activist campaigns. When activists move from outside critic and cajoler to inside fiduciary and counselor, it is now up to the board leader to mold the more diverse boardroom players into a productive team.

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