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Divergent Views of Merit Complicate Merit-Based Corporate Practices

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Meritocracy is an ideal that today’s organizations strive for. However, the practice of meritocracy doesn’t often live up to the aspiration. For example, studies continue to show that women and minorities are paid less than their white male counterparts. A study from MIT and Berkeley offers one explanation for why companies and organizations are not […]

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Work from Home and Job Satisfaction: It’s Complicated

Work-from-home (WFH) flexibility was once available only to a select group of employees and professions. The sudden emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic forced companies in many industries to make WFH arrangements for as many of their employees as possible. This forced natural experiment allowed both companies and their employees to experience the benefits and pitfalls […]

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Leading Conversations: Productive and Unproductive Voice

Few people in their careers have avoided the scourge of time-consuming, unproductive meetings. For Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School and Tijs Besieux of the consultancy Leadership Footprint, unproductive meetings are a symptom of a broader problem: unproductive conversations.  In many ways, the success of organizations hinge on the quality of the conversations within them. […]

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