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Veterans Day reflections: What HR can learn from the Army on leadership

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Both the Army and the HR function protect and empower their people by providing training, career development and benefits, and by addressing sensitive workforce issues as well as encouraging diversity and inclusion. Diversity in Action and US Veterans Magazine offer veteran profiles and the types of roles they can fill.

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Dr. Lanetta Greer: “You can’t please everybody”

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On May 12, 2006, my life forever changed. Charles had worked within the Child Welfare System for over 25 years. It was enlightening to hear about how she had maneuvered through life after leaving the system. Can you share three reasons with our readers about why it’s important for a business to have a diverse executive team?

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How Companies Identify Talent with Janine Nicole Dennis & Kage Spatz

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She has also been featured by Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Black Enterprise, and Ebony Magazines. This was in 2006. I seek diversity. Synergy within our value systems. In 2013, Ms. I believe that job set the tone for the HR professional and business woman I would become eventually.

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“Diversity has shaped all of our lives”, George Nichols and Parveen Panwar, Mr. Activated

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The United States is currently facing a very important self-reckoning about race, diversity, equality and inclusion. You hear the stories of black men and women navigating poverty inside America’s densest projects; the malnutrition, the financial stress, the entrenched inequalities in our system that eventually boil over.

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Rising Music Stars Chad, Dennijo, and Andy Sitze of The Flat River Band: “Always find the best in people; despite what some people say, try to find the positive in it; If you look hard enough you will find it”

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The Flat River Band is an Americana Country Music Band that was formed in 2006. As a child I remember playing for the public-school system in Jamaica seeing all of those little kids’ eyes light up when we played and seeing the smiles on their faces really made me stop and think about what an impact, we have on other people’s lives.

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Jim Donovan: “Everything is a teaching moment”

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He served on the board of the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund from 2002 to 2006. Donovan has been featured in a number of publications for his achievements and contributions, including Fortune Magazine and Harvard Alumni Magazine. From your point of view, how would you rate the results of the US education system?

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Veena Rao: “Dream big.”

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Then, in 2006, on a whim, I decided that I would launch a newspaper to serve the needs and interests of the South Asian communities of Georgia. You have first-hand experience with the US immigration system. If you had the power, which three things would you change to improve the system? The green card limbo wasn’t what is today.