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The Big Picture of Business – Diversity is Important for Business

Strategy Driven

Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. Good intentions and political correctness are not enough. There are many good reasons why diversity relates to your livelihood: Embracing diversity is politically correct. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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What CEOs Are Afraid Of

Harvard Business Review

In 2014, I surveyed 116 CEOs and other executives, interviewing 27 in depth afterwards. About a third (32%) were CEOs or presidents; 31% were division/business unit heads; 30% were senior managers reporting to division/business unit heads; and 7% were in investment or professional services firms. .”

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Why the Best Internal Candidate Might Be from an Unlikely Part of the Company

Harvard Business Review

If these companies had followed a strengths-based leadership approach, they would have likely hired an internal or external candidate who’d built their entire career in the field of Human Resources, where they could easily leverage their domain expertise. Call it baptism by fire. Better internal networks.

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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

This provision would have required most companies with the equivalent of 50 or more full-time workers to offer health benefits on January 1, 2014, or pay a fine of at least $2,000 per employee. HR executives are finding health care planning to be as high on their list of priorities as talent management.

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Learn How to Spot Portable Talent

Harvard Business Review

But his insight makes a lot of sense — and it applies to human talent as well. The best employees and executives are what talent management experts call “portable”. Or would you be better off following a more counterintuitive strategy and finding the true stars who have managed to thrive at weaker firms? An HBR Insight Center.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business Review

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey.