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Toxic Culture Gender Gap: Women’s Experience in the C-suite and Beyond

HR Digest

As Donald Sull, the lead author and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, rightfully points out, we’ve been fighting for pay equity, and now it’s time to fight for a safe and healthy work environment too. But Sull isn’t just raising awareness; he’s taking action. His advice?

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Learning to Manage the Map Paradox

Leading Blog

Donald Sull calls it the Map Paradox. In The Upside of Turbulence , he writes, “In a turbulent world, people must make long-term commitments based on a mental map they know to be flawed. These mental maps are based on yesterday.

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Business Competition Has Not Gotten Fiercer

Harvard Business Review

As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. Puzzling anecdotes abound: Microsoft has missed out on a series of new products in the past decade, yet as Don Sull points out , it continues to be highly profitable. The macro numbers tell a very different story.

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Before You Agree to Take on New Work, Ask 3 Questions

Harvard Business Review

Are you considering that merger because you should say yes to the potential cash windfall, or because it truly aligns with your company’s long-term vision? ” Donald Sull and Dominic Houlder suggest creating a worksheet with four columns. In “Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions?”

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