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Lisa Esparza on The Road to Inclusive Excellence

HR Digest

Providing opportunities for my team members to take on leadership roles and contribute towards achieving our shared goals is a cornerstone of my approach. One of our key objectives this year is to spearhead initiatives that empower women in the automotive industry.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group. Advisor and Speaker at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.

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The Future of Human Work Is Imagination, Creativity, and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Recently, space and automotive titan Elon Musk said the machine-over-mankind threat was humanity’s “biggest existential threat.” ” Computers are great at optimizing, but not so great at goal-setting. Sponsored by SAS. Assessing the opportunities and the potential pitfalls. Or even using common sense.

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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? When Tough Performance Goals Lead to Cheating. This ensures that the entire workforce is focused on longer-term sustainable goals.

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Listen to Your Employees, Not Just Your Customers

Harvard Business Review

automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors. At one 170,000-employee big box retailer, linking the feedback systems would require approvals from three different senior executives, the CMO, the chief human resources officer, and the president of retail. Organizational barriers are often the culprit.

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Changing an Organization’s Culture, Without Resistance or Blame

Harvard Business Review

So when we faced such a challenge at Lear Corporation, a Fortune 200 automotive supplier with 136,000 employees worldwide, we knew the odds were against us. That’s the ultimate goal, since the new behaviors will stick only when they become unconscious norms. Most behavior-change initiatives accomplish little, at best.

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5 Positions Companies Need To Navigate Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

These systems: learn at scale, understand with meaning, reason with purpose and interact with humans in natural ways, with the goal of improved customer experience. The digital assistant would understand/reason that the trip is during the rainy winter season and recommend accordingly.