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How Veterans Outscore Their Counterparts on Leadership

Center for Creative Leadership

Participative management. There are a number of reasons why organizations “harvest” their future leaders by assuming that the best candidates will naturally achieve success with some development (such as challenging assignments or coaching) and can then be picked up and placed into leadership roles, according to a recent McKinsey article.

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Michael Fraccaro, CHRO at Mastercard, on the value of business resource groups

HR Digest

I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. It can empower people to take a point of view and allow the organization to benefit from diverse points of view. To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? It can help them innovate.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors.

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How Women Can Flourish in the Workplace

Harvard Business Review

Many participants, thankfully, focused on what we can do to increase the number of women leaders and managers in business rather than diagnosing the causes, which are all too well known. When I asked last week if women were dissatisfied enough to force change in the corporate world , my post triggered off a global debate.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? Dynamism: A dynamic set of extended ties that evolves as you evolve.

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