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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

In 1999, rock-and-roll legend Rikk promoted me within six months from sales associate and drum department head at Sam Ash Music to Operations Manager, where I not only led a warehouse crew, but I became the regional trainer on an Oracle-based POS system at the age of 23. That’s a lot of bending!

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The Secret to Leading Organizational Change Is Empathy

Harvard Business

She also explained how the HR department was redoubling its efforts to speed up the recruiting process and add more rigor to interviews to ensure new hires were more likely to be high performers. This continued down five levels, all the way to branch managers, and helped every impacted individual understand their part.

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

Harvard Business

For example, Christopher Kilmartin and his colleagues reduced men’s perception that other men accept sexism by using interventions that verbally critiqued sexist ideologies with role-playing and written exercises. (A A control group completed an assertiveness skills exercise.)

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How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM KORN FERRY

Harvard Business

Part of that exercise is to include a greater variety of voices and perspectives in the leadership pipeline. Embed change throughout the organization: The entire organization needs to be enlisted in change initiatives.