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7 Barriers to Growth Every Leader Needs to Eliminate Today

Ron Edmondson

Just like the people they lead, they become protective of the way things operate. This may need to be the subject of another post, but one example of how I have tried to address this lid is with what I call “focus groups”. I wrote a post on innovative ways to develop people , as an example. They are just “normal”. .

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management.

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business Review

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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Using Analytics to Predict Hollywood Blockbusters

Harvard Business Review

Disney admitted its studio would have an operating loss of $80-$120 million, making the film arguably the biggest flop of all time. The resulting spike in both supply and demand for movies has created fierce competition for financing. Sales teams could be equipped with likely sales for a given film to sell appropriately.

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Using Analytics to Predict Hollywood Blockbusters

Harvard Business Review

Disney admitted its studio would have an operating loss of $80-$120 million, making the film arguably the biggest flop of all time. The resulting spike in both supply and demand for movies has created fierce competition for financing. Sales teams could be equipped with likely sales for a given film to sell appropriately.

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It’s a Match! How to Create an Equitable Compensation System That Fits You

HR Digest

Dedicate manpower and resources to look for patterns or trends that may indicate inequities, especially within specific job roles or demographic groups. Then develop protocols for making adjustments to address identified pay disparities. The gathered data needs to be reviewed in detail.

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How to Launch a Working Parents’ Support Group in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Take the following steps before and after your network is launched, and you’ll develop a network with a large following and with powerful, positive impact. In these organizations, the working parents’ groups feel like natural and essential outgrowths of core operations. Build up from what works.