David A Fields

JANUARY 25, 2022

Many of your consulting firm’s clients are prioritizing diversity in terms of thinking style, work style, age, cultural background and, of course, race and gender. Quick note: this article is not about DEI (Diversity, Equity … Continued. What about you and your consulting firm—should you increase your diversity too?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 18, 2024

The new age of flexible of work has encouraged a culture of overwork, which is proving to be harmful to the mental health of employees.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

What comprises an organizational culture that makes Black employees feel welcomed and valued? According to research and in-depth interviews, two qualities stand out, particularly among Black workers in market-focused sectors: the ability to collaborate and the space to be open about race at work.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2023

And while it holds the promise of transforming work and giving organizations a competitive advantage, realizing those benefits isn’t possible without a culture that embraces curiosity, failure, and learning. When paired with the capabilities of AI, this kind of culture will unlock a better future of work for everyone.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The authors suggests ways to show gratitude meaningfully and create a culture where your employees feel their work is seen, supported, and valued. Expressing gratitude early also makes employees more likely to persist through difficulty and bounce back and be resilient following failure.

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Effective Managers

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In this article, we explore how cognitive biases, emotions, and social influences impact managerial decisions and offer strategies to enhance the decision-making process. By fostering a culture of openness, leaders can avoid groupthink and make more robust, well-informed decisions.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 27, 2025

Common wisdom goes that the success or failure of an expatriate manager an employee sent to a new country to handle their companys initiatives there depends on their possession of certain personal traits, like cultural intelligence and adaptability.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2023

What they increasingly want is what the research has always shown works: mentally healthier cultures. The authors break down what employees need and — increasingly expect — from their employers when it comes to mental health support and offer several strategies for leaders to foster sustainable, mentally healthy cultures.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The cultural shift toward greater mental health awareness has helped bring needed attention to psychological suffering, improve access to mental health resources, and reduce stigma. However, it may also be increasing the pathologization of ordinary life, leading people to think of themselves as mentally fragile and unwell.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2024

It used to be thought that globalization would flatten out cultural differences among countries and regions of the world, making it easier than ever for companies to move into foreign markets.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2024

This article discusses three measures that organizations can take to bring out the best in employees with this condition: modifying job features, training managers to support them, and promoting a culture of performance and compassion. Whether leaders know it or not, chances are their workforce contains people with bipolar disorder.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2025

And by emphasizing fairness in policies, broad accessibility, inclusive cultures, and trust-based representation, organizations can better address the needs of all employees and create meaningful, lasting change.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2023

All too often, leadership development programs don’t adequately account for the culture, norms, and system within which the leader is working. The author shares four strategies that Intuit has used to build a culture that reinforces, rather than inhibits, positive leader growth.

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Harvard Business

MAY 14, 2024

Leaders who are exploring how AI might fit into their business operations must not only navigate a vast and ever-changing landscape of tools, but they must also facilitate a significant cultural shift within their organizations. But research shows that leaders do not fully understand their employees’ use of, and readiness for, AI.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Leaders who listen well create company cultures where people feel heard, valued, and engaged. In addition, employees who experience high-quality listening report greater levels of job satisfaction and psychological safety.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2023

Retaliation — in all its forms — not only harms current team members, but a culture that tolerates retaliation results in harm to the mission and the organization’s ability to deliver to its customers and stakeholders.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

Read the article to learn more about this practice and its role in manufacturing, and explore recommendations that will drive MOM’s efficiency. Promote a Safety Culture. A strong safety culture is essential for protecting employees and maintaining uninterrupted production. and implementing advanced software solutions.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2023

In this article, McKenna lays out some of those principles and offers advice to companies who want to make it possible for their employees to become expert learners.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2025

A better approach might be: keep the selection criteria for identifying talent or potential relatively broad, dont try to select the best of the best and instead use other criteria such as diversity or cultural fit, involve experts early in the process, and create a community of winners that includes all finalists.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

And they can feel especially daunting when you’re paired with strangers from different cultures, like when networking in a global business context. To help you more effectively master the art of small talk, we’ll present in this article a mindset for how to think about small talk and a series of behaviors for how to do small talk.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2024

Family is one of the most important things in most people’s lives, across cultures and geographies. This article focuses on that body of research, and discusses how organizations that embrace family at work stand to benefit from attracting and retaining employees who are highly motivated and engaged.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Among them are the lack of a culture of trust, poor communications, ineffective feedback, and valuing IQ over EQ. This article covers how to encourage and build a culture where team members know how and when to escalate an issue — before it spirals out of control.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2022

Strategies for leaders to align all three.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In this article, the author shares advice from two experts and offers seven questions to ask to help you make an informed decision and to help prevent future regrets: 1) What am I overlooking? 2) What’s the company culture really like? 3) What’s my prospective boss really like — and will we click both personally and professionally?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2024

In this article, the author offers advice and recommendations from three experts. By doing so, you’ll help build a positive, inclusive team culture that tackles loneliness and helps everyone succeed together. Managers sometimes turn to team-building activities to build connections between colleagues.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2023

But you can’t speak a speak-up culture into existence — doing so in the absence of true psychological safety is an abdication of leadership and an admission of failure. When employees at every level speak up, they circulate local knowledge, expand the universe of useful ideas, and prevent collective tunnel vision.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A culture of autonomy, belonging, and purpose comes from a shared vision, and right now, it’s fair to say that many companies and their employees are simply not seeing eye-to-eye. This article covers three steps organizations can take to turn that around.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this article, the author unpacks the difficult emotions that accompany each phase and shows how people affected worked through them. Many mistakenly believe that, once they report a situation or incident, they’ll experience relief, but find they continue to feel and process the aftershocks of what happened even years later.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 25, 2024

In an era where the boundary between work and personal life is increasingly blurred, navigating personal story sharing demands a nuanced approach. For workers, sharing the personal remains essential to their well-being and success, but requires an intentional and strategic approach.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This article covers five best practices that are intended to be a source of inspiration for catalyzing age-friendliness, engaging the multigenerational workforce, and activating age-inclusive cultures. How can employers align themselves with these new realities and unleash the potential of the multigenerational workforce?

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2022

Reclaim a bit of silence in an increasingly noisy world.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2024

In this article, the author describes the findings from her doctoral research on workplace belonging. Peers and coworkers were reported as the highest contributors to belonging, and organizational culture was reported as the top detractor. Women of color continue to be underrepresented in the tech industry.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 28, 2025

[Note : Most people would break this into a few different articles but I want you to have all the info in one place. Remember that boutique firms are more likely to value specialty expertise and cultural fit than larger agencies do. It can be difficult for veterans, too! What makes you stand out?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2018, the secretary of defense directed the Navy to increase the number of available F/A-18s from 260 to 341 jets within one year. Here’s how they did it.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2025

Don’t forget: the employees are a huge part of what made the company attractive in the first place.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2022

It only works when all employees are treated like they’re remote.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

What started as a tool for investors to understand risk has become weaponized by both ends of the U.S. political spectrum.

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