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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business Review

The sad part is that all of them had started off strong: they were engineers with an average tenure of more than 20 years in R&D and product strategy and marketing. After earning a degree in industrial engineering, he joined Techint, a multinational conglomerate with headquarters in Milan. But that potential had been squandered.

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A Fairer Way to Make Hiring and Promotion Decisions

Harvard Business Review

So it''s no surprise that even during the economic downturn, organizations tended to maintain or even slightly increase their budgets for such diversity and inclusion initiatives as mentoring programs, training, affinity groups, diversity councils, and scorecards. Managers submit a list of candidates for designated positions.