Chair
Sherry Duda
Vice Chair
Martha Kesler
Secretary
Beverley Patwell
Lori Blander
Jaya Bohlmann
Marco Cassone
Zoe MacLeod
Sanjay Naik
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| Technology Changes, Good Management Doesn't Zachary First, Harvard Business Review I’ve always loved the contrast between Moore’s Law—Gordon Moore’s pronouncement that silicon chips’ power would double every 18 months—and Peter Drucker’s much more sober statement about the art of managing people: “We are not going to breed a new race of supermen. We will have to run our organizations with people as they are.” Together they capture the difference between technological progress, which in certain periods occurs exponentially, and the progress we make in changing human nature—which is to say, no progress at all.
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| 7 Most Common Habits of the Best Listeners Travis Bradberry, Inc.Listening is a bit like intelligence—most everyone thinks they're above average, even though that's impossible. And listening is a skill you want to be great at. A recent study conducted at George Washington University showed that listening can influence up to 40 percent of a leader's job performance.
There's so much talking happening at work that opportunities to listen well abound. We talk to provide feedback, explain instructions and communicate deadlines. Beyond the spoken words, there's invaluable information to be deciphered through tone of voice, body language and what isn't said.
In other words, failing to keep your ears—and eyes—open could leave you out of the game.
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| 11 Unusual Strategies to Boost Engagement in Team Meetings Young Entrepreneur Council, Inc.Not all meetings are created equal nor should they be treated that way. The less tense the mood, the more productive it will be. Encouraging everyone to open up and be their most authentic selves is a surefire way to get those creative juices flowing.
Eleven entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council share their best advice for holding meetings in a unique way that keeps your team feeling empowered and inspired.
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| The Case for Blind Hiring Heather R. Huhman, EntrepreneurImagine being hired without your future employer knowing your name, educational background or work experience—or even shaking your hand. This practice is known as blind hiring, and it’s become more prevalent across industries as a way to reduce bias and improve workplace diversity.
Sixty-nine percent of the 228 executives surveyed in an Economist Intelligence Unit report in January 2014 said their senior leadership teams recognized the value of workplace diversity and strived to embed diversity into their respective cultures.
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| Why Does Organizational Change Usually Fail? New Study Provides Simple Answer Victor Lipman, ForbesHint: It’s not faulty strategy. It’s no lack of talented executives. Nor is it insufficient funding. No, it’s something simpler and more fundamental: communication—or more accurately, lack thereof.
That is the key conclusion of a new study, “Where Change Management Fails,” from Robert Half Management Resources. The study, which included 300 senior managers at U.S. companies with 20 or more employees, notes that most organizational change efforts founder in the executional phase—on the shoals of broken or inadequate communication.
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| The Best Perk at America's Best Employers Is the One You Don't See Carmine Gallo, Forbes
America’s best employers don’t create jobs; they make meaning and that’s why these companies have the happiest and most engaged employees in the country.
At a recent dinner party a pilot for Southwest Airlines (#13 on the Forbes list of America’s Best Employers 2016) turned to me and excitedly showed me an email from CEO Gary Kelly. Kelly addressed the email to the pilot and copied about five other people, including the pilot’s boss. The email contained a letter from a woman who shared an experience about her brother—recently paralyzed in an auto accident—and the wonderful treatment he had received from the pilot and the entire crew.
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| Why the Gender Leadership Gap Is So Much Worse for Women of Color Lydia Dishman, Fast Company "From corporate boardrooms to the halls of Congress, from universities to the courts, from religious institutions to philanthropic organizations, men are simply much more likely than women to be leaders," according to a new report from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). This isn't news to anyone who has been paying attention, but this new study does bring the persistence and complexity of such underrepresentation into more focus.
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| These Female Developers Explain How to Recruit More Female Developers Weiting Liu, Fast CompanyThe gender gap in the technology industry is well known and much debated. While some companies are making great efforts at improving diversity in their own ranks, we don't always hear from the women already working in the industry about what they think should be done.
So here at Codementor, I asked two female developers on our platform, Jessamyn Smith and Ariadni-Karolina Alexiou, for their input on how companies can attract and keep talented female developers. Here's what they said.
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| Why Salary Transparency Didn't Eliminate the Gender Wage Gap at This Startup Lydia Dishman, Fast CompanySalary transparency is a great equalizer in theory; when everyone knows what everyone else is making, it’s hard for wage gaps to exist. In practice, it’s a bit more complicated and doesn’t always work as intended.
Last February, Fast Company reported how four companies used slightly different versions of this strategy to ensure that no one among their respective staffs was being paid unfairly.
One of the companies was Buffer. The social media startup has always been dedicated to "radical transparency," not only internally, but externally as well. So it published everyone’s salary (from the CEO on down) as well as the formula used to calculate those wages. According to the founders, the move was aimed at facilitating trust, a key ingredient for an agile organization.
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