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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. Consider GM as a case study. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of extraordinarily successful people? They cannot dance with employees because they think they are too busy to engage employees. He entered the building protected by multiple bodyguards.

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7 Practical Ways to Reduce Bias in Your Hiring Process

Harvard Business

To begin, you’ll need to understand what hiring prejudices are and how they operate. Case Study #1: Work to understand biases and set diversity goals. Case Study #2: Use software to simplify and standardize the vetting process. ” Rework your job descriptions. Neglect to set diversity goals.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

The conference’s agenda involves keynotes, presentations, case studies, and interviews with leading pharma experts dealing with project portfolio management. The program of the symposium includes case studies, lessons learned, academic research, actionable tips, and more.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.