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Diversity and Inclusion – Two Very Different Concepts

Great Leadership By Dan

You need to de-bias the systems that run the organisation, such as recruitment, pay, procurement, talent management and marketing. Whilst both are important, leadership is the cornerstone, without which all the diversity initiatives in the world will be in vain. And you need to lead inclusively.

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CMI Highlights – 14 February

Chartered Management Institute

Here , you can read how Amey, which provides the transport sector with decarbonisation solutions, is using management apprenticeships to give employees the soft skills they need for leadership roles in engineering. Assessing Leadership and Management in Local Government report , published in partnership with the Social Market Foundation.

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Navigating the Mental Minefield: A Guide for Leaders

Mark Sanborn

Leadership, especially at the C-level, is a journey of high-stakes decisions and complex challenges. In Practice: A CFO might confidently project revenue figures while neglecting market uncertainties and potential disruptions. What are the cognitive challenges leaders at the highest levels face?

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Can Optimists and Pessimists Ever Get Along?

Lead Change Blog

For instance, they’d suggest an innovative marketing strategy to promote their new product without much regard for anything else. Given these characteristics, naturally, the pessimists would tear the optimistic marketing strategy and other ideas to pieces. Sometimes they would even see problems that weren’t there.

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Originals or How Non-Conformists Move the World

Leading Blog

They move before the market can support their idea. When you are the first to market, you have to make all of the mistakes yourself.” Dealing with Groupthink. Cohesion in a group doesn’t cause groupthink. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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36 Lessons for Business & Life from Trillion Dollar Coach Bill Campbell

Leading Blog

He helped to build some of Silicon Valley’s greatest companies including Google, Apple, and Intuit and to create over a trillion dollars in market value. The goal of consensus leads to “groupthink” and inferior decisions. B ILL CAMPBELL was one of the most influential background players in Silicon Valley.

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Why You Should Care About The Revenue Forecast

The Idolbuster

I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. Marketing then back calculated the number of units, service contracts, and consumables that would need to be sold to make the forecast.