Corporate culture is hard to define, yet culture is often cited by employers and employees as an important factor in talent placement. Further, Harvard researchers found that,“when aligned with strategy and leadership, a strong culture drives positive organizational outcomes.” But what is a strong culture? How can culture be evaluated and/or improved?
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Last year, State Street announced its intention to use shareholder activism to work towards gender parity on corporate boards. However, it appears that women on corporate boards can also be targets of shareholder activists, according to a recent study in the journal Applied Psychology.
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Millennials: Disrupting the status quo Millennials: they’re challenging the status quo in every aspect of society, including the corporate sector.
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As CEO of IBM, Ginni Rometty is no stranger to both the complexities of the modern business environment and gender diversity. Artificial intelligence, or cognitive computing, as IBM prefers to call it, is not a threat to jobs. In fact, Rometty believes the purpose of AI is to augment the human brain and simplify the job
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Recent events such as the Equifax hack and the breach of the Edgar system, the SEC’s public company files, are not isolated events; this is a new reality. The volume of data stored electronically “in the cloud” and the rapid pace of technological change puts everyone at risk. As quickly as we can develop firewalls
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The term “war for talent” has been subsumed into the business lexicon since its introduction 20 years ago. This “war” rages on and it appears that we are no closer to winning any battles. In fact, I have written about it here. But a new book by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, The Talent Delusion: Why Data, Not
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“All effective leaders are effective leader developers,” says Bernard Banks, retired Brigadier General of the US Army and now X at Kellogg School of Management. Banks noted that upon leaving military service after a 25-year career, he saw a disconnect between the military and the business world in the way they cultivated leaders. In business,
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EMPOWERED WELL-BEING What is Well-being? “Who doesn’t want to have less stress, more flexibility, a more human approach to dealing with the demands of work and life?” This is the question posed by Jennifer Fisher, National Managing Director of Well-being at Deloitte, in a recent LinkedIn post. Wellbeing is tied to inclusion, Fisher asserts, which is why
Millennials and a shift in buying behavior According to Deloitte’s Perspectives report ‘Investment Management Outlook 2017,’ one major trend likely to impact our industry in the coming year is “a shift in buyer behavior as the Millennial generation becomes a greater force in the investing marketplace.” If investment management firms want to drive growth, they
Trust has become a high priority Trust.. it’s a high priority issue these days. Since the financial crisis of 2008, trust has catapulted into the limelight and the impact on CEOs has been significant. Below, a few intriguing takeaways on the issue from PwC’s recently released 20th CEO Survey:
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