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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox on Gender, Generations, and the Workplace of Tomorrow

HR Digest

It is a combination not only of policy and culture, but also leadership practice. We started in 2005 working with a lot of multinationals that were globalizing, seeing much of their future growth coming from new markets and needing their leadership teams to reflect a deeper understanding and representation of these places and cultures.

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Saudi Arabia’s Labor Market Challenge

Harvard Business Review

One of the most overlooked aspects of this challenge is the makeup of the Kingdom’s talent pool, and other domestic labor market realities. Presenteeism in offices often is used as a critical measure of effort, and hence value to an organization, in place of output, qualification, or skill. It’s a tall order.

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Fight the Nine Symptoms of Corporate Decline

Harvard Business Review

People become self-absorbed and lose sight of the wider context — customers, constituencies, markets, or the world. You might not see absenteeism, but there is "presenteeism," which means the body is there but the mind is absent. Policies and processes are perceived to be ingrained and inevitable, shutting off new ideas.