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Is Australia suffering from the “Stupid Curve”? New research and new name for how we're utilising our national talent

Friday, June 25, 2010

Apparently so!
“The stupid curve” phenomenon (named by former Deloitte USA Chairman Mike Cook) that describes the curve you see in graphs that source 90% of their leaders from only 50% of their workforce. And Australia ranks behind peer countries in regards to number of women in senior executive roles…


Diversity and Flexibility E-newsletter explores this issue, click here to find out more.

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Karen Schmidt commented on 30-Jun-2010 02:46 PM
when you look at the statistics in this way, it makes sense. Why would you discount 50% of your talent pool? You wouldn't deliberately do that to you customer base and expect to stay in business.
sphinxx commented on 30-Jun-2010 02:56 PM
And hopefully, companes that continue to do so in their executive and board selection, will realize they can't stay in business without more talented women around.