Archive for the tag 'bias'

Feb 17 2010

Breaking Gender Stereotypes requires the Rewiring of our Brains

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Research by Catalyst consistently highlights that stereotyping is the biggest barrier for the progression of women in Corporate World.
I believe the fault lies with our brain. It consists of over 180 billion neurons, each processing information through 15,000 synapses per second. So as to be efficient and save energy, the brain “cheats” and creates shortcuts [...]

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Jun 02 2009

Organisational Restructuring: Leverage Diversity of Thinking

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So, your organisation has a set senior management team, and a concrete workforce. Given recent pressure to downsize, you have just undertaken a cost-cutting exercise and made “excess” staff redundant. In doing so, how did you decide the staff to keep, and the employees to “let go”?
One of the fastest things to happen in the [...]

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