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Men Who Get It: Jim Wall (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Here is an excerpt from an article about Jim Wall (Chief Diversity Officer, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited) written by Melissa J.

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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

CoachStation provides consulting and business advisory, coaching / mentoring and human resource related offerings. My career from that point has almost always been in leadership roles within the retail, hospitality, finance and contact centre industries in Australia and overseas. There are many reasons.

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Motivating People Starts with Having the Right Attitude

Harvard Business Review

One problem that gets in the way is a mechanistic, instrumental view of the human beings who sit at our companies’ desks. Seeing compensation as the primary or only tool we can use to motivate high performance is like trying to build a house with only a hammer.

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All Hail the Generalist

Harvard Business Review

The logic is straightforward: learn more about your function, acquire "expert" status, and you'll go further in your career. To advance in one's career, it was most efficient to specialize. In more straightforward language, a man with a hammer is more likely to see nails than one without a hammer. Why's that?

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