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Michael Fraccaro, CHRO at Mastercard, on the value of business resource groups

HR Digest

I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” That requires us to invest in developing both current and future skills.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Pushing Employees to Go the Extra Mile Can Be Counterproductive

Harvard Business Review

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. Develop a work environment in which people are more intrinsically inspired to participate in pro-organization behaviors. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry. How talent management is changing.

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Saudi Arabia’s New Economic Reforms: A Concise Explainer

Harvard Business Review

While there is little prospect for political reform on a wider scale — Saudi Arabia is and remains a traditional monarchy with limited public participation in policymaking — the current reform process is an important one, and one indicative of the sort of the socio-economic challenges the Gulf oil producers increasingly face.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. With these, you actually participate in the upside of your customers, and therefore your business grows with them. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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Strategic Planning Steps

CO2

Internally, examine culture, leadership, process, and people, as well as the value proposition you offer to customers. Be sure your assessment tools are thorough, accurate, and clear, so that participants won’t feel like their time has been wasted. GPSing can be used by individuals, of course, or by organizations as a whole.