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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

Even though we were following the typical playbook — posting open positions on job boards that specialize in attracting candidates from underrepresented groups, sponsoring events, giving scholarships, and training our employees on inclusion and hidden bias — we weren’t seeing progress. Native American, 18.1%

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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. While the execution of a conventional strategy lends itself to linear progress and clear benchmarks, innovation often proceeds by S-curves , moving at a slow crawl until it explodes at an exponential rate. Focus on Problems, Not Ideas.

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