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Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?

Harvard Business

An innovative model developed by the Ascend Foundation provides special insight. By taking into account the percentages of minority employees in both management and the professional workforce, an EPI analysis is a more insightful metric than simply the percentage of executives or employees who are minorities.

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How Automation Will Change Work, Purpose, and Meaning

Harvard Business

Insight Center. Over the next 100 years, AI and robotic systems will increasingly dominate labor and work, producing necessities and the physical artifacts of human life, enabling more of us to ascend (Arendt did present this as ascending — this is a qualitative value judgment) to the realm of action.

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How Lilly Is Getting More Women into Leadership Positions

Harvard Business

Insight Center. Leaders (mostly male) hypothesized that many women were less ambitious than men, or weren’t capable of ascending to the highest levels of leadership. Numbers are just numbers unless translated into insights that can be put to use. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business

In contrast to much of the press coverage of artificial intelligence , this revolution is not about the ascendance of a sentient android army. So how worried should we be about the modern ascendance of algorithms? Insight Center. Orlagh Murphy/Getty Images. A quiet revolution is taking place. Adopting AI.

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Radical Transparency Can Reduce Bias — but Only If It’s Done Right

Harvard Business

As Tasha Eurich writes in her 2017 book, Insight , about 95% of us think we have strong self-awareness, but only about 10% to 15% of us actually possess it. And, in fact, the more power we have, and the higher we ascend in our careers, the less self-aware we become. .” Research supports Franklin’s assertion.

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How the Most Emotionally Intelligent CEOs Handle Their Power

Harvard Business

Insight Center. He went on to tell me that ever since he ascended (his word) to the CEO slot, women seemed to enjoy his company more (the two managers happened to be female). In fact, as an inside candidate, he’d had the benefit of learning his company’s culture before stepping into the CEO role. And concerned.