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The Myth of a Psychologically Safe Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

Getting to where you are going I learned an important life lesson on a business trip to Puerto Rico, traveling with a good friend. Even if you identify several habits you want to change, you will see the most growth by taking it one step at a time rather than attempting to change multiple habits all at once.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in Washington, DC

Management Consulted

The Washington, DC office’s recruitment team hires highly intelligent people who start as great communicators but are trainable. Make sure you specify where you should show up when you’re reporting for duty on the first day of work!). That’s not all, though – BAH has 10 offices in Northern Virginia as well.

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What We Learned from Improving Diversity Rates at Pinterest

Harvard Business

With over 175 million active users worldwide, Pinterest thrives on providing users with relevant ideas: what to wear, what to cook, how to furnish your home, and where to travel. and almost no companies report engineering data specifically), Pinterest’s goal in 2016 was to hire women engineers at nearly twice this rate.

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What We Can Learn About the Economics of Discrimination from a Chilling Study of 1930s Germany

Harvard Business

Here are just a few examples: The travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, which has raised fears among U.S. corporations (including Amazon , Nike , and MasterCard ) that increasing discrimination will leave them unable to recruit, retain, and develop talent. percentage points.

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How Winning Organizations Last 100 Years

Harvard Business

Most businesses focus on serving customers, owning resources, being efficient and growing — but the Centennials don’t. They also recruit from outside their sector to bring in new knowledge and experience. Instead, they try to shape society, share experts, create accidents, and focus on getting better not bigger.

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business

By doing so they avoid the delays associated with information and approvals traveling up and down the management hierarchy. We find it useful to start with four qualities most executives want their organizations to have: responsiveness, reliability, efficiency, and perennity (e.g., Efficiency through syndication.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business

The H-1B Visa Process The H-1B visa was established, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, to let companies recruit trained foreign workers (with at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent) to work in “specialty occupations” for which there are few qualified local candidates. For example, Axios reported that 72.4%