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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. Lee Jourdan: One thing we’re doing, and it’s a bit subtle, is that we’re disaggregating the data we provide in our Corporate Responsibility report, so we can gauge how we’re progressing.

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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

Return on Improved Performance (ROIP) – similar to Return on Investment – measures the value of improved performance in a given position (i.e., To answer these questions, we need to begin disaggregating work and understanding how automation and AI can differentially handle various aspects of work.

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The Best Investment You'll Ever Make

Harvard Business Review

In his 1931 book The Epic of America , historian James Truslow Adams coined the term the " American Dream " to describe a "social order in which each man and each woman shall.attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable.regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." This creates a positive feedback loop.

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Who Wins in the Gig Economy, and Who Loses

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated from jobs and reorganized into a variety of alternative arrangements, such as consulting projects, freelance assignments, and contract opportunities. All of that is changing. Entrepreneurial workers also win. The gig economy rewards hustle.

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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

A disaggregated laptop that is lighter and more versatile, since I can use the screen by itself as an e-reader and the keyboard with other devices. Forget the titles on the org charts and the advertised positions. I recently bought an iPad. After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard.

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The Truth About How Uber’s App Manages Drivers

Harvard Business Review

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. million drivers are active on the platform globally.

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What a Changing UK Can Learn from Multinationals

Harvard Business Review

The newest element of that wider dialogue is the idea that consideration is needed about the position of England. Previously, there has been a presumption that there was no need for a disaggregation of the interests of the UK as a whole and England, on the grounds that it contains 85% of the UK population.