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Nurturing Psychological Safety in the Workplace Through an Age-Diverse Lens

Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Leaders who embrace and leverage the strengths of each generation through intentional collaboration and reverse mentoring build a workplace culture that prioritizes psychological safety. Lester et al.

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10 Top Places To Work in 2017 and Why

Cheryl Cran

MAY 2, 2017

Want to know the top ten places to work in 2017 and why? In addition, Great Place to Work scores a Culture Audit management questionnaire from each company, which reports details such as compensation and benefits, hiring practices, recognition, training, and diversity programs.

Boston Consulting Group

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How 4 Retailers Became “Best Places to Work”

Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

HEB, Costco, Trader Joe’s, and QuikTrip all made Glassdoor’s 2017 “Best Places to Work: Employees’ Choice” list , released in early December. But they also score higher on culture. What is it about their cultures that makes them such good places to work?

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If Only It Was So Easy

Martinka Consulting

JULY 15, 2017

On May 25, 2017, the Wall Street Journal’s tech column was about how almost all of us have personal information exposed online, much more than we realize. Job search – wouldn’t it be nice if prospective employees knew about the company’s culture before accepting the job?

Case Interview

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You Don’t Have to Choose Between Fast, Cheap or Good. Instead, Change the Paradigm. - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PWC

Harvard Business

APRIL 2, 2018

When PwC asked CEOs to name the most important ingredients for successful innovation, 31% said having the capability for creativity. PwC’s 2017 Risk in Review report revealed that 47% of corporate officers said they track their risk appetite – up from 36% in 2015. Craft a Culture of Encouragement.

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Culture Meeting Data Company

Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Innovation at GE was on a roll. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies?

Balance Sheet

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The U.S. Needs a New Paradigm for Data Governance

Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

Help to increase tech literacy in Washington. This lack of knowledge — despite the millions of dollars that the tech industry spent on lobbying Washington in 2017 — shows that technology literacy among lawmakers still needs to be improved. Digital Service , and the Presidential Innovation Fellows.

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How Masculinity Contests Undermine Organizations, and What to Do About It

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

For example, Susan Fowler’s 2017 blog about Uber detailed not only her recollections of being repeatedly harassed, but what she described as a “game-of-thrones” environment, in which managers sought to one-up and sabotage colleagues to get ahead. Masculinity Contest Cultures. and Canada from different organizations.

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How GE Built an Innovation Lab to Rapidly Prototype Appliances

Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2017

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

Enterprise

Enterprise Productivity Engineering Retail

What 11 CEOs Have Learned About Championing Diversity

Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. The structured interviews were conducted by me over the phone, Skype, or in person, between February and June 2017. And many diversity programs fail. I chose eleven CEOs: Art Peck (Gap Inc.,

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From Wearables To Telemedicine To Direct-To-Consumer Prescriptions, Here’s How Healthcare Is Becoming Consumer-Centric

SkillQuo

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Article Credit: CB Insights. High deductible plans and new technologies are turning patients into savvy healthcare consumers, with higher expectations around service and experience. Companies are positioning themselves to take advantage of this shift. In healthcare, that change has come more slowly. TABLE OF CONTENTS. MOBILE TAKES OFF.

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How Technology Is Changing M&A in the U.S. - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ACCENTURE STRATEGY

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

SOURCE: Accenture Strategy 2017 study, “Tech-Led Change in M&A”, a survey of 1,100 C-Suite executives representing 13 industries in seven countries. More than half of U.S. companies logging M&A activity described themselves as primarily acquiring digital companies or assets.

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Samsung, Lee Jae-yong’s Conviction, and How Business in South Korea Is Changing

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

For example, in 2017 the profits of the 30 largest South Korean conglomerates rose by 48%, compared with one year before, but the number of workers employed by those companies decreased by 0.4% In late August, Lee Jae-yong, the heir apparent of Samsung, South Korea’s largest conglomerate, was sentenced to five years in prison.

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How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over everything from the last U.S. Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. Alberto Manuel Urosa Toledano/Getty Images. In the U.S.,

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