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How External Board Evaluation Can Support Board of Director Recruitment

N2Growth Blog

The truth is that bringing on a new board director can be powerful and transformative because they will reshape the composition of the board, bring new skills to the boardroom, and has the potential to contribute diverse insights that pull the organization’s future forward.

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Action-Learning based leadership development using entangled-trios

Mike Cardus

Each participant to establish individual learning goals that will complement the process and their current and future teams. Participants will be in entangled-trios (teams of 3) Each trio will select an organizational challenge and objective to research, learn, and propose solutions or improvements to implement. Expectations.

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The Role Prediction Markets Play In Assessing Climate Risk

The Horizons Tracker

Prediction markets are often highly effective means of bringing together diverse perspectives, and have been shown to outperform individuals and teams in a wide range of tasks. In other words, an initial stake could be provided by a sponsor, with this then distributed to participants based on the information they contribute to the market.

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It Helps Women When They Have Male Allies At Work

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers quizzed over 3,000 volunteers across three studies, with the participants asked about a range of different gender equity proposals. In each, the participants consistently reacted more positively towards proposals from mixed-gender advocates than either female-only or male-only supporters.

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Female Only VC Funds Don’t Necessarily Help Female Entrepreneurs

The Horizons Tracker

A commonly proposed remedy to this situation is for women to take a greater role in the investment community, and for these female investors to then back female-led businesses. The proposal, which was made by the European Women in Venture Capital Group, was designed to tackle the ongoing challenges female entrepreneurs face in raising money.

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Tackling The Bias Against First-Generation Graduates

The Horizons Tracker

The authors proposed a variety of possibilities, however — perhaps hiring managers deemed the mention of first-generation status as inept or akin to soliciting preferential treatment. These participants were not in managerial roles, but rather ordinary individuals with college education and jobs.

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A 236-Year-Old Lesson in Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

It was a diverse mix of volunteers and militias with different traditions and backgrounds, primarily loyal to their own town, region or colony. Facing an almost impossible challenge with no clear solution, he made that diversity an asset by actively seeking the advice of his subordinates. Everyone who can contribute should be included.