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Free Your Staff to Think

Harvard Business Review

Because professionals have such direct access to information and people, many companies have let most of their administrative assistants go, leaving it to professionals to manage their own information. Self-service information management makes sense — to a point. Kit" information.

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The Biases That Punish Racially Diverse Teams

Harvard Business Review

Gender diversity in top management teams improves firm performance , especially when innovation is a strategic focus. It may be the result of differing information, perspectives, and worldviews being worked through to allow innovation, better problem solving, and accurate decisions to emerge.