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Stop Setting Goals You Don’t Actually Care About

Harvard Business

To begin thinking of your own professional development goals, start by asking yourself three questions: If I could accomplish just one major professional development goal in 2017, what would it be? Creating an Ethical Workplace. When I think about working on this goal, do I get excited about the process as well as the outcome?

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Cybersecurity Has a Serious Talent Shortage. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

Some characteristics of a successful cybersecurity professional simply can’t be taught in a classroom: unbridled curiosity, passion for problem solving, strong ethics, and an understanding of risks. schools and 300 industry partners, with the goal of expanding to 80+ schools in 2017. The P-TECH model has expanded to over 50 U.S.

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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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Incentives vs Integrity: The BCG Bribery Scandal

Tom Spencer

Between 2011 and 2017, Boston Consulting Group ( BCG ), which is one of the world’s leading management consulting firms, engaged in high level bribery in Angola. BCG has admitted to paying millions in bribes to secure contracts with the Angolan Ministry of Economy and the National Bank of Angola.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

Too often, leaders view such investments as costly training on things that seem to be “common sense” or issues they can afford to get around to later. Today Uber is no startup, with 11,000 employees, not including its drivers, and a 2017 market value at IPO that is estimated as $28–$70 billion.

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How Men Get Penalized for Straying from Masculine Norms

Harvard Business

A study from 2017 found that men who cry at work are perceived as more emotional and less competent than women who cry. Train more broadly about gender stereotypes. Diversity training often evokes skepticism from employees—especially men. What happens when they show emotions other than anger? Do not “gender police.”

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Consultant Marketing Trust Barometer

Jerry Fletcher

A stunning 92 percent of employees surveyed in the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer say that they expect their employer’s CEO to speak up on one or more issues ranging from income inequality to diversity and training for jobs of the future. But is faulted on ethics. That means typing “Trust Research” into Google. Richard Edelman.