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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

L-R) Chevron's Global HR Team: Rhonda Morris, VP and Chief Human Resources Officer; Lee Jourdan, Chief Diversity Officer; Brian Chase, Manager of Strategy and Planning, Global Diversity. One of the areas we’re focused on is expanding our pipeline of diverse talent through recruitment, development and promotion.

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Approximately Correct Is Better than Precisely Incorrect

Harvard Business Review

Still, companies often make the mistake of developing products and features to appeal to the mean. What they should be doing is disaggregating the drivers of these results, and focusing instead on who, or what, comprises those averages. They pore over aggregate results and aggregate averages.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

Developments in machine learning, powered by scalable computing resources in the cloud and heavy investment in exceptional human talent by the large players in the IT industry, are making computers capable of recognizing patterns and understanding meaning in big data in a cunningly human-like way.

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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

Harvard Business Review

The failing organizations around us — many of which I explore in my new book , which publishes today — continue to follow the operating rules and ethos of Traditional Strategy. So before we can explore the Social Era, we need to disaggregate two words — social is not always attached to the word media.