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Bringing Gender Balance to Nestle Italy

Harvard Business Review

More in my series on showing how the gender balancing program at Nestle , on which I have been working with them, has gone down well even in the more macho countries in which the company operates. In Italy, the classic leadership style is pushy and directive. This time I'm looking at Italy. We needed to understand our consumers better.

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How We Revolutionized Our Emergency Department

Harvard Business Review

Rethinking the time-honored processes upon which our daily operations depended would require overcoming the complacency that pervades many large academic medical centers. To foster a common sense of urgency, every member of our leadership team was provided a copy of John Kotter’s “ Our Iceberg is Melting.”