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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

Organizational Talent Consulting

If you are looking for a good discussion topic at an upcoming meeting, take some time to ask those attending how they would describe the organization's culture. Examples could include speaking up in meetings, holding a door for someone, smiling, or greeting someone by name when walking down the hall. What is Organizational Culture?

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

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What We Learned from Improving Diversity Rates at Pinterest

Harvard Business

Pinterest’s fastest growing users are outside of the United States, and for current and future users, it’s important that the people building our product make it relevant to people of different ethnic, social, physical, and geographic backgrounds. Others wonder if underrepresented groups can truly meet a high hiring bar.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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How Some Companies Are Making Child Care Less Stressful for Their Employees

Harvard Business

The 2016 Care Index released by the New America Foundation and Care.com shared an increasingly troubling cost profile of child care right now. These are the very same cities where employers struggle to recruit and maintain skilled talent. Set regular start and end times for meetings. Photo by Mike Wilson. This is not news.

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As Machines Take Jobs, Companies Need to Get Creative About Making New Ones

Harvard Business

Retailers such as Macy’s and The Limited are closing hundreds of stores and cutting tens of thousands of jobs as people buy more and more products online, and others are testing robotic assistants or planning for autonomous stores. Or child care, elder care, psychological services, rehabilitation, or meeting space for community groups?

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. A team of U.S.