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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

This ‘camouflage’ approach ensures that change agents operate seamlessly within the organization, making their efforts more effective and less susceptible to dismissal. However, when diverse voices join together, echoing the same sentiment, it becomes exponentially more challenging for those in power to dismiss or silence them using clichés.

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Sleepless in Silicon Valley: What Keeps CEOs Up At Night

HR Digest

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep.

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Getting Culture Right

You're Not the Boss of Me

This video speaks to the culture that is prevalent in more workplaces than any of us would like to admit, workplaces that operate on the basis of positional power with an undercurrent of fear. Maybe it isn’t tangible like a chair or a P&L Statement, but it is most certainly observable and most definitely impacts performance.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. Says Abi Comber, Head of Marketing for British Airways: “Having P&L responsibility is incredibly powerful.

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Why Face-to-Face Meetings Make All the Difference

Harvard Business Review

One of the biggest challenges they face is how to manage a diverse group of people across a broad geographic scope. At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management system was critical.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Directness. When the U.S.

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How Can We Increase the Number of Women on Corporate Boards?

Women on Business

That’s despite the fact that there has been so much discussion about the need for boardroom diversity and more diversity in the C-suites, particularly for women to fill more of these positions. Getting more women on boards begins with getting more women in mission-critical P&L roles. in Latin America.

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