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Women Leadership Changes in 2013

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Still, in the year that Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg published " Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead ," women everywhere made impressive economic and political gains. Diverse business leadership and governance are correlated with stronger business performance, employee engagement, and innovation.

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Are You Clinging to the Wrong Strategy Style?

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Perhaps, you should ask these questions: How predictable is the environment in which our unit operates? A classical strategy (the one everyone learned in business school) works well for companies operating in predictable and immutable environments. How much power do we have to change that environment? . Your answers may vary widely.

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Addicted to Connecting with Customers, Products and Partners

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Employees (known as partners) at Starbucks seek to deliver on the company''s promise at every customer contact point; thus, building a high performance organization operating through a lens of humanity. In short, Starbucks leaders have produced diverse tools to help Starbucks partners develop or deepen a genuine product passion.

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Mars Incorporated: A Sweet Place to Work

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For example, a typical Mars plant manager influences associates by his or her ability to pace development of operational systems and innovative approaches. These operational managers' value to Mars is they initiate or design positive changes. Source: FORTUNE, February 4, 2013. ? Barbara A.

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The Path to Transparency

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The software has been downloaded more than 36 million times this year, and thousands of nameless volunteers — many of them Tor clients — now help to relay mind-bogglingly diverse Tor data in nearly every country on earth. In the past year, supported by grants from the U.S.

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Successful Leadership Is Not One Size Fits All

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One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. Here, diversity in the decision-making fits the terrain. There's no doubt this is a man with vision and drive. GE and HCL.