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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

Diversity is an overused word, but at Chevron it’s a perfect description of its corporate culture. The company’s 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report highlights how diversity and inclusion (D&I) feature so centrally in the company’s success story. Efforts to bring more diversity to the oil and gas industry are working.

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Kyle David: “Anyone can see sales performance with a pipeline report”

Thrive Global

In 2002, he returned to consulting by forming The Kyle David Group, now KDG. Just a silly example, but if our Help Desk team sees that a client has not submitted a lot of support tickets, we will reach out to see how they are doing and congratulate them on staying problem-free. It could be a 45-second phone call that is a pleasant surprise.

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David Evangelista of Special Olympics International: “Stay focused”

Thrive Global

Stay focused: the world is moving at warp speed and is becoming more pixelized by the day. The speed with which information moves is faster than ever and the ability to stay focused and not be distracted is one of the greatest skills I think anyone can have. It is easy to fall victim to the myriad of communication mechanisms, tools, and apps.

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Think Crisis; Think Woman

Thrive Global

For instance, at the height of the dot-com bust in 2002, he acquired the consulting arm of the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and stepped up investments in R&D which was considered a wrong move. “Today, IBM is much more than a “hardware, software, services” company. Virginia M. He bought small companies that paid high returns.

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Amit Patel On How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work

Thrive Global

In general, if I decide to do something, I’m going to give it my all, so I practiced and practiced, and eventually I became a competent skier. While some workers have preferred working from home, others would like to leave the laundry and dishes behind and go back to the office. Individuals and organizations are looking for more freedom.

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“Gender Roles in Childhood.”, with Sheila Ronning and Candice Georgiadis

Thrive Global

Considered a pioneer in the industry and by her peers, Ronning broke the mold in 2002 with the launch of Women in the Boardroom by being one of the first ever to form such an organization. As part of my series about “the five things we need to do to close the gender wage gap” I had the pleasure of interviewing Sheila Ronning.