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Diversity and inclusion: 7 best practices for changing your culture

CIO

CIO.com spoke to DEI leaders and experts to uncover the best practices for building diverse teams and a culture that nurtures those teams and individuals to stop the churn and get closer to the organization’s overall D&I goals. But if your company is not a startup, it is still important to fix your culture before you recruit.

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me be as clear as I can - the phrase &# toxic work environment&# is code for bad leadership, becasue a toxic culture simply cannot co-exist in the presence of great leadership. It’s also important to understand that a toxic culture cannot exist if toxic people are not allowed to take up residence. Readers can google it.

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Workplace Gossip | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Gossip destroys trust, undermines credibility, and is one of the greatest adversaries of a healthy corporate culture. Nothing can claim more tainted professional reputations, destroyed friendships, and polluted corporate cultures than gossip. At its core, gossip is the highest form of disloyalty, and it is far from innocent or idle.

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Grouparoo snares $3M seed to build open source customer data integration framework

TechCrunch

Grouparoo CEO and co-founder Brian Leonard says that his company has created this open source customer data framework based on his own experience and difficulty getting customer data into the various tools he has been using since he was technical founder at TaskRabbit in 2008.

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Cross-Cultural Design

A List Apart

I pride myself on being a third-culture kid , meaning I was raised in a culture other than the country named on my passport. But even with a cultural upbringing in both Nigeria and the US, it was one of the first times I ever had to guess my way through a task with no previous reference points. And I did it! Typography.

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Advocacy to Shift Culture

Women on Business

Culture shift is very difficult and ambiguous. Facilitating advocacy is a powerful culture shifting strategy for organizations. Advocacy programming is a powerful culture shifting strategy. The Business Case for Building a Flexible Work Culture- Series Part I Why do organizations offer flexibility?

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. My experience is that bonuses are absolutely effective given this caveat: they must be structured and implemented properly. It is not the bonus that is right or wrong, but the manner in which it is rolled-out.