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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

A recent study from Carnegie Mellon suggests that diverse teams are more likely to make successful pivots than their more homogenous peers. The research reveals that businesses established in dynamic environments tend to have a longer survival rate when their founding teams exhibit greater functional diversity.

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Diversity of a Different Persuasion

N2Growth Blog

Diversity is a complex issue because it comes in all shapes and sizes. As an Executive Recruiter, I have been asked to identify candidates who are diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, gender and even geography. One type of diversity that has more recently begun to receive subtle yet perceptible attention is age diversity.

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The Wisdom Wave: Preparing for the Surge of Senior Professionals.

Rich Gee Group

This is up from 16% in 2011. Action Steps for Businesses: Develop Age-Inclusive Policies: Create policies that are inclusive of all ages. Invest in Lifelong Learning: Provide opportunities for continuous learning and skill development. Foster an Inclusive Culture: Promote a workplace culture that values age diversity.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. I’ll take it one step further – I can’t really think of any issue that should be argued or decided solely on the merits of diversity. In fact, let me take it up even another notch…diversity should be a non-issue altogether.

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Data Suggests Multiculturalism Is Working In The UK

The Horizons Tracker

The latest such evidence comes from a study by Dartmouth College that looks at how multi-ethnic neighborhoods in the UK and US retain (or lose) their diversity, and how this affects their stability over a prolonged period. The overall share of such neighborhoods is declining, however, in favor of more diverse neighborhoods.

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The Why, What And How Of Learning

Eric Jacobson

Developing the confidence to try again after a failure, and to maintain composure in the face of critical media coverage. from 2007 to 2011. Cultural Literacy : growing from the richness of diversity around us. Keyes recaps his learned business lessons for top management and CEOs at companies of all sizes.

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-03-18

Tanveer Naseer

Here’s a compliation of some of the articles/tweets I shared on Twitter this week: Leaders, Are You Developing Your Employee’s Super Powers? Listening Is Critical in Today’s Multicultural Workplace [link] # leadership #communication # diversity #. Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-01-21. link] # leadership #.