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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 & 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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The Challenges When We’re Not Ourselves At Work

The Horizons Tracker

.” The researchers crafted their scale with a keen understanding of the deeply personal and subjective nature of identity, considering the diverse array of threats that can arise in various settings. When we think of diversity, we think of race and gender, but diversity is so much more than that,” the authors conclude.

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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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New Study IDs Best Companies for Leadership?, Innovation

Great Leadership By Dan

I don't remember seeing innovation highlighted in previous results - were those new questions? Susan : Yes, there was a new set of questions added this year around the theme of innovation, based on what we're hearing and seeing about it's importance. The Top 20 connect leadership development with the business strategy.

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Small Business Resolutions for 2011

Coaching Tip

by Alexander Hiam, author of Business Innovations for Dummies. The key to improved results is innovative actions that, while they stick within the limits of your budget, also take you in exciting new directions. Here are some resolutions to help small or mid-sized businesses innovate in 2011. . Be proactive in 2011. .

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-02-04

Tanveer Naseer

How to Foster Innovation Through Diverse Workgroups [link] # innovation #. development # ff @ eschreyer @TMODOM @ TanveerNaseer @ MeredithMBell @tnvora #. The myth of the innovation nation [link] # innovation #. Some other posts you may enjoy: Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-01-07.

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