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Inside the Big Tech’s Brutal Layoffs

HR Digest

Everyone’s getting slammed,” says Roger Lee, founder of Layoffs.fyi, told Yahoo Finance “Earlier in the year, layoffs in tech were concentrated within food, transportation, and finance startups — but at this point it’s hitting every sector within tech.”. Google-parent Alphabet may also reduce workforce.

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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl – Need Any Country be Poor?

Deming Institute

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. Roger and Persia Neidermeyer wrote a book on the effort – Use What You Have: Resolving the HIV/AIDS Pandemic.

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Great CEOs are Born, Not Made

Harvard Business Review

Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The poster child for his view was Roger Smith who was an MBA-trained accounting and finance specialist. Strategic judgment.

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How to Fix the Most Soul-Crushing Meetings

Harvard Business Review

Roger Schwarz. For example, if a meeting charter has significant implications for finance, one person from finance can attend and keep their finance colleagues informed. And when they do, leaders are more inclined to use power responsibly. You and Your Team Series. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track.

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

With the leadership of Opportunity's Geralyn Sheehan , a CED specialist, we forged ahead, investing resources to build programs in four areas: agriculture financing, training, and processing; artisan training and product distribution; a rural technical high school and community infrastructure; and leadership development work.

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Why We Fail to Report Sexual Harassment

Harvard Business Review

Last month, Fox News agreed to pay Gretchen Carlson $20 million to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network’s former Chairman and CEO, who resigned in the summer. And we continue to hear stories about sexual harassment in academia , medicine , science , and engineering driving women out of STEM.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me.