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Mary Barra’s “Just Keep Swimming” Strategy

LDRLB

From starting her post as CEO of America’s largest automotive manufacturer, to being named “The Most Powerful Woman” by Fortune, to being the focal point of the newest cyber rampage on gender pay inequality, Ms Barra is making headlines around the world. What an eventful month it has been for Strategista Mary Barra!

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Leadership Lessons from Outward Bound

Skip Prichard

This concept of service that [Outward Bound founder] Kurt Hahn felt was so important,” said Laura Kohler, senior vice president of human resources, stewardship, and sustainability for Kohler Co. Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Work with advisory functions such as legal, compliance or human resources? We tell ourselves that we would never do those things.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business Review

Franklin was in the business of designing, engineering, and manufacturing climate control systems for cars and SUVs. FB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money—but the climate control systems divisions, a Tier 1 automotive supplier, had not fared as well.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

The research shows that men are 16 percent more inquisitive than women, possibly due to their tendency to gravitate towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers that reinforce inquiry. Fact 3: Considerable personality gaps exist between the sexes in inquisitiveness, sensitivity and impulsiveness.

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5 Positions Companies Need To Navigate Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Systems Engineer. DEADS: Data Engineer and Data Scientist. Machine Learning Engineer. This includes Big Data strategy (both internal structured and external unstructured data); identify data components, select analytics engines and all the system and data interactions. To: AI/Cognitive Era. Database Administrator (DBA).