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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Subsequently, stacks of uneaten pizza remained on the break room table for hours — a stale reminder of a stale culture. While a party or shared meal can provide a fun break from the norm, organizations cannot rely on one as a magic solution to deeper issues in your company’s culture. So, What’s Wrong with Pizza?

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Fight Ageism, Fuel Growth with Inclusive Hiring & Retention

Harmonious Workplaces

In 2022, at the age of 46, I interviewed for a marketing executive position with a tool manufacturer. I responded that I held a certification in digital marketing and had a history of early adoption of technology throughout my career. After five or so interviews, the hiring manager stated that they wanted a “digital native.”

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Why an Innovation Culture Matters

Organizational Talent Consulting

Top-ranked innovation companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon accelerate out of market disruptions. Innovation doesn't just happen in the workplace without a supportive culture. Company culture is the one thing that influences everything in the workplace. link] Leaderships Role in Creating an Innovation-based Culture.

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Aerospace and Defense Industry 2022: Project Management Challenges and Ways to Address Them

Epicflow

Now, let’s consider what challenges 2022 trends add to the A&D project management. . the development of defense mergers and acquisitions activity; space market growth; research and development, testing and application of innovative technologies and equipment, etc.), Managing multiple projects running concurrently .

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

I attended a meeting led by the VP of construction for a company for which I was the VP of marketing. Here’s the link: [link] I could not help but to reflect on my personal experience in my last executive role where I needed to stand up to a bully boss. I joined the meeting virtually from another part of the building via Microsoft Teams.

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Five Ways to Raise your Game in Consulting

The Consultants Peer Group

First, Confessions of a Whistleblower by Garrison Lovely highlighted several cultural problems at the consulting firm, McKinsey. Lovely writes openly his experiences working in the $15 Billion annual revenue (2022) firm and recommends an approach to more accountability, especially in government arenas. Lovely has since left McKinsey.

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3 Steps Toward Getting Your Workforce Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Right

Organizational Talent Consulting

Some of the many ways different business functions could begin utilizing generative AI in the workplace now are: Marketing and sales functions - writing sales copy and creating product user guides. Every AI-related skill category grew in 2022, with Python being the most requested AI skill. Chui, E, Roberts, R., and Yee, L. Gebrekal, T.