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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

Earlier this year, Chevron announced a $5 million grant to Catalyst, a global nonprofit advancing workplace gender equality, in support of expanding the MARC program, which Chevron adopted in 2016. He currently serves as Chief Diversity Officer, Global Diversity and Ombuds Center of Expertise with Chevron.

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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. Bearing witness in a global communications web is more important than ever and has its own professional standards, long held up by organizations like Human Rights Watch.

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Approximately Correct Is Better than Precisely Incorrect

Harvard Business Review

Levitt and Dubner, they of Freakonomics, offer a slightly more sophomoric example when they point out that the "average" adult in a global sample has one breast and one testicle. What they should be doing is disaggregating the drivers of these results, and focusing instead on who, or what, comprises those averages.

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Why Your Salespeople Are Pushovers

Harvard Business Review

Its conclusions are based on data from a global study of more than 6,000 sales reps across nearly 100 companies in multiple industries. Without clear guidance, most reps simply slip into "order taker" mode, closing small, disaggregated, price-driven deals at a discount all in the name of "giving customers what they want.".

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The World Needs a DARPA-Style Project to Prevent Pandemics

Harvard Business Review

While advances in tracking weather-related risks have improved public safety and resilience, we have made far less progress on enhancing global resilience to biological risks and pandemic threats. levels of readiness and global coordination are woefully inadequate. is not alone in this; it’s is a global problem.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work.

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What a Changing UK Can Learn from Multinationals

Harvard Business Review

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. The newest element of that wider dialogue is the idea that consideration is needed about the position of England. First, U.S.