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2018 Deming Prize Winners

Deming Institute

The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has announced the 2018 Deming Prize winners. Ocean’s King Lighting Science & Technology Co., Distribution of winning organizations since 2000 (including prizes for 2018). 2018 Deming Grand Prize. 2018 Deming Prize for Individuals. India – 28.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2018

Leading Blog

The Mind of the Leader : How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018) The Mind of the Leader offers a radical, yet practical, solution to solve the leadership crisis. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). We fear rejection.

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Parental Leave for New Dads: Companies That Boosted Their Paternity Leave

HR Digest

Between 2018 and 2016, paid maternity leave jumped 10 percent, according to a study published by the SHRM. In 2016, employers offered 40 days (on average) for maternity leave while paternity leave got about 20 days, according to the SHRM data. Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

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Apple Lays-Off 200 Titan Project Employees

HR Digest

Apple on its pay-roll has incredibly talented team members who are working on autonomous systems and associated technologies. In August 2018, Apple assigned the leadership of the Titan team to Tesla engineering vice president and Apple veteran, Doug Field, alongside Bob Mansfield.

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Creating Scalable Opportunities For Lifelong Learning

The Horizons Tracker

“ The rate at which new skills and disciplines are emerging, especially in technologies such as machine learning and AI, universities are saying that they simply don’t have the faculty to keep up,” Maggioncalda continues. There is also evident potential for universities to better engage with their alumni community.

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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

The company’s 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report highlights how diversity and inclusion (D&I) feature so centrally in the company’s success story. We’re looking at recruiting talent from people who have temporarily left the workforce and need a ramp-up coming back up to speed, with new technology or in other areas.

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Tear Down This Wall: 4 Ways to Fix Business and Tech’s ‘Women Problem’

Strategy Driven

Information technology (tech) is at the epicenter of the world’s economy. Even lower down the ranks, the number of women tech companies employ has declined – from 37 percent in 1995 to 24 percent in 2016 — and is predicted to decrease further in coming years. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are the foremost companies in the world.