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Delve: What Can Boomers Learn About Leadership from Millennials and Gen Z? with Karl Moore and Dax Dasilva
What can older generations learn from Millennials and Gen Z about leadership, strategy, and dealing with crisis? And how can these younger generations unlock their professional potential by engaging in meaningful work and taking larger roles in organizational strategy and change?
IMPM scholarship helps 2sLGBTQIA+ students promote diversity and inclusion
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Reverse mentoring can help bridge workplace generation gaps
Young people entering the workforce today have a worldview that can be profoundly different than senior leaders. Education has shifted from a modern approach to a postmodern one, and that results in a workplace generation gap. The onus to bridge it lies largely with older generations, said Prof. Karl Moore to Oliver Wyman Forum.
New book by Prof. Henry Mintzberg brings together decades of observation and analysis
Prof. Henry Mintzberg has been observing, advising and researching organizations since the early 1970s, and has had a profound influence on their study. The most recent book from the John Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies is Understanding Organizations鈥inally! Structure in Sevens, and it synthesizes decades of analysis to understand the forces that shape organizations.
WestJet takes over Sunwing, but competition from Air Canada will limit negative impact for consumers
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Delve: Are Digital Tech Workers Coding Themselves Out of Existence? with Emmanuelle Vaast and Alain Pinsonneault
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Indigenous Graduate Spotlight: Leon Picha (BCom鈥�23)
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Couche-Tard's Retail Innovation Lab is the store of the future
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The future of education will demand unprecedented collaboration
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