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How Royal DSM Is Improving Its Geographic and Gender Diversity

Harvard Business Review

These leaders are recognizing that this balance drives the innovation and market understanding they need for other key business transformations. Companies are starting to acknowledge the pervasiveness of bias, as the proliferation of unconscious bias training for middle managers demonstrates. How did he do it? .”

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75% of Cross-Functional Teams Are Dysfunctional

Harvard Business Review

As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'” Cross-functional teams have become ubiquitous because companies need to speed innovations to market.

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