Author name: dreambridge

“The Pew Research Center is out with a study that finds that Asian-Americans have surpassed Hispanics as the fastest growing racial group in the nation. Also, Asian immigrants have surpassed Hispanics as the largest group of new immigrants. It also finds that more than 18 million Asian-Americans living in the U.S. are the highest earning and best educated racial group in the country.” Host, Michel Martin of NPR’s Tell Me More explores the findings of this report with three experts in the field.

“The main reason why newly hired outside executives have such an abysmal failure rate (40%, according to one study) is poor acculturation: They don’t adapt well to the new company’s ways of doing things. In fact, some three-quarters of 53 senior HR managers I surveyed cited poor cultural fit as the driver for onboarding failures.”

This article by Hal Gregersen talks about dreaming big, and about the success of some who have chosen to follow their passions. “The efforts of Branson and Bezos to commercialize space travel reminds us all to dream a little bigger—and to help someone else do the same…”

“Women’s advancement to levels of manager and above is still stymied by institutional mindsets about women, their greater proportion in staff positions versus line positions as well as by women themselves, who tend to not raise their hands for positions, waiting to build further skills.”

“Master negotiators say the negotiation doesn’t truly begin until the parties reach impasse…” This article discusses the art of negotiation.