Comments on: Why Accountability is What Matters: Achieving Critical Mass with Targets or Quotas

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Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:01:55 +0000

[...] while these are all more than… say… zero percent, it’s nowhere near the 30% critical mass so many female leaders have called for, nor the company-specific gender balance approach advocated [...]

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Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:02:22 +0000

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Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:33:09 +0000

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Thu, 27 May 2010 17:02:14 +0000

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Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:12:11 +0000

[...] there will be a change.” Janowski also cited influence of legislation in many European nations reserving a certain percentage of corporate leadership for women. “This is happening. You’d think companies would want to [...]

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Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:08:19 +0000

[...] correlation between diversity of thought and company performance. Specifically, when there is a critical mass of women board members (which is quoted as 3 female seats at the table) a tipping point is created [...]

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Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:02:45 +0000

By: Selena Rezvani

Selena Rezvani — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:29:03 +0000

Thank you, Nicki, for explaining the Critical Mass principle so adeptly. As I’ve conducted more research on organizations implementing the principle effectively, I came across Proctor & Gamble, a company actually enforcing accountability. They tie executive’s compensation to their track record of developing and promoting women in leadership.

By: Karla

Karla — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:51:14 +0000

Nicki –

Thanks for such a well written article. We are indeed getting to the nitty gritty when trying to measure the “success” of all sorts of initiatives to even the playing field. Backtesting to see whether different policies and ideas have had the desired impact is crucial, and is not being done (it isn’t being done in the area of racial diversity either).

Taking the steps you outline is not “sexy”, the way that making policy is, but we all know the devil is in the details. Things don’t get done unless they are measured, unless lofty ideals are followed up with policies, procedures and benchmarks.

I’ve already passed this along to many friends who are interested in the subject and hope that we can get momentum behind achieving Critical Mass.

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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:35:30 +0000

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