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

HR Digest

Since 2002, Chevron reports a 68 percent increase in the number of women and minorities in senior leadership and executive positions. 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.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

The ability of such technology to enable traditional jobs to be disaggregated and to supplement or replace routine activities presents opportunities in efficiency, effectiveness, and impact. Cognitive automation like Google Glass can transform the work of a flight attendant , for example.

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Why Your Salespeople Are Pushovers

Harvard Business Review

In ongoing efforts to differentiate their companies, virtually every leadership team has exhorted their team to "put the customer first," or "place the customer at the center of everything we do." It's not a bad strategy, mind you, but it backfires when leadership is vague about how this translates to specific behavior.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership. Optimizing customer experiences invariably demands internal realignment.

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