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Chose Your Dimensions of Diversity and Get Started

Eric Lanke

Baby Boomers and Gen Xers tend to think of diversity in terms of protected classes. This is leading many organizations to try to think about diversity more broadly than protected class. Second, when I was chair of the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives (WSAE), that Board was wrestling with its own diversity initiative.

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The Hourglass Blog: Innovation = Creativity x Execution

The Hourglass Blog

And he goes on to illustrate the "multipler effect" successful execution can have on innovation efforts: Heres why we worked on execution, as opposed to creativity: We surveyed thousands of executives in Fortune 500 companies to rate their companies innovation skills on a scale of one to 10, one being poor and 10 world class. About This Blog.

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The Hourglass Blog: Generational Herd Mentalities

The Hourglass Blog

I went to the University of Wisconsin in the late 1980s. Need to take that Physics 201 class? Association Management. Why should Millennials be spared that difficulty and humiliation? Why should they be able to set their own rules and write their own tickets? Heres a quick story. A Note from Eric Lanke. About This Blog.