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Companies increasingly rely on diverse, multidisciplinary teams that combine the collective capabilities of women and men, people of different cultural heritage, and younger and older workers. But simply throwing a mix of people together doesn’t guarantee high performance; it requires inclusive leadership — leadership that assures that all team members feel they are treated respectfully and fairly, are valued and sense that they belong, and are confident and inspired. Research involving 3,500 ratings by employees of 450 leaders found that inclusive leaders share six behaviors — and that leaders often overestimate how inclusive they really are. These are the behaviors: visible commitment, humility, awareness of bias, curiosity about others, cultural intelligence, and effective collaboration.
Companies increasingly rely on diverse, multidisciplinary teams that combine the ability of those around him to contribute to meetings or participate in conversations.”
Displays favoritism: “Work is assigned to the same top performers, creating unsustainable workloads. [There is a] need to give newer team members opportunities to prove themselves.”
Discounts alternative views: “[This leader] can have very set ideas on specific topics. Sometimes it is difficult to get an alternative view across. There is a risk that his team may hold back from bringing forward challenging and alternative points of view.”
What leaders say and do has an outsized impact on others, but our research indicates that this effect is even more pronounced when they are leading diverse teams. Subtle words and acts of exclusion by leaders, or overlooking the exclusive behaviors of others, easily reinforces the status quo. It takes energy and deliberate effort to create an inclusive culture, and that starts with leaders paying much more attention to what they say and do on a daily basis and making adjustments as necessary. Here are four ways for leaders to get started:
Know your inclusive-leadership shadow: Seek feedback on whether you are perceived as inclusive, especially from people who are different from you. This will help you to see your blind spots, strengths, and development areas. It will also signal that diversity and inclusion are important to you. Scheduling regular check-ins with members of your team to ask how you can make them feel more included also sends the message.
Be visible and vocal: Tell a compelling and explicit narrative about why being inclusive is important to you personally and the business more broadly. For example, share your personal stories at public forums and conferences.
Deliberately seek out difference: Give people on the periphery of your network the chance to speak up, invite different people to the table, and catch up with a broader network. For example, seek out opportunities to work with cross-functional or multi-disciplinary teams to leverage diverse strengths.
Check your impact: Look for signals that you are having a positive impact. Are people copying your role modeling? Is a more diverse group of people sharing ideas with you? Are people working together more collaboratively? Ask a trusted advisor to give you candid feedback on the areas you have been working on.
There’s more to be learned about how to become an inclusive leader and harness the power of diverse teams, but one thing is clear: leaders who consciously practice inclusive leadership and actively develop their capability will see the results in the superior performance of their diverse teams.
Do you prefer dark chocolate or milk chocolate? If you answered dark, then happy to know that dark chocolate has numerous health benefits! There are many nutrients found in dark chocolate that helps the functions of your body and brain.
The higher the percentage of cocoa, the better nutritionally your chocolate is–and the more bitter it is. That bitterness is because of all the nutrients that are jam-packed into that chocolate bar to feed your body and soul. Some of the neat things about dark chocolate are the helpful bonuses it has in it. When you eat dark chocolate, you're providing your body with some antioxidants, fiber, iron, and a lot more great nutrients that help your body function. Dark chocolate can assist with skin cell growth, meaning the components in it can help your skin heal and glow.
Dark chocolate also can help with your brain function. It can help improve memory, focus, and learning. It can also relieve stress and make you feel happier. Not only that, but dark chocolate has been proven to help blood flow to the brain.
So next time you want to treat yourself, pick up a bar of dark chocolate to have a snack, and also feel good about it!
If you are an old timer like me on social media and a social media bluff especially a LinkedIn hyper member like me, you will enjoy this nostalgia from past (2013).
When you talk of LinkedIn, it is always with respect and or even reverence you talk about it. When I joined LinkedIn in 2008, it was just around 33 million members and Indian count around 10% approximately 3 million members.
That was the time When Jeff Weiner took over as the CEO. The transformation in LinkedIn in all too familiar and wellknown to merit a repetition here. The next evolution happened in june 2020, when Jeff Weiner evolveved from his position of CEO to Executive Chairman.
Ryan Roslansky, who took over in June 20200, has maintained seamless transition. The seven months period from then doesn't give you an of any leadership change at LinkedIn.
LinkedIn growth from 2008 to the present gives me a feeling of a child growing up in my presence. The rearing process of LinkedIn from 2008 gives a feeling of joy and possessiveness , the same, that I would attach to my children.
I can proudly say that, I learned social media posting etiquettes and disciplines at LinkedIn.
Please go through the interesting infographics.
Thank you.
The infographic below is from nostalgic collection from 2013.
The infographic below is the latest.
LINKEDIN USERS BY COUNTRY AND STATISTICS (2021)
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Founded in 2003 Linkedin has over 706 million members, 50 million listed companies and is available in 24 languages with members in 200 countries. 43 percent of LinkedIn users are female and 57 percent are male. It is the largest professional network.
Top 45 countries by number of Linkedin members
Rank
Country
Members
1
United States
171,000,000+
2
India
69,000,000+
3
China
51,000,000+
4
Brazil
45,000,000+
5
United Kingdom
29,000,000+
6
France
20,000,000+
7
Canada
17,000,000+
8
Indonesia
16,000,000+
9
Mexico
15,000,000+
10
Italy
14,000,000+
11
Spain
13,000,000+
12
Australia
11,000,000+
13
Germany
10,400,000+
14
Turkey
9,000,000+
15
Netherlands
8,330,000+
16
The Philippines
8,000,000+
17
Colombia
8,000,000+
18
Argentina
7,260,000+
19
South Africa
7,000,000+
20
Chile
5,000,000+
21
Malaysia
4,470,000+
22
Nigeria
3,910,000+
23
UAE
3,710,000+
24
Egypt
3,550,000+
25
Belgium
3,500,000+
26
Sweden
3,430,000+
27
Saudia Arabia
3,360,000+
28
Poland
3,170,000+
29
Portugal
2,910,000+
30
Switzerland
2,630,000+
31
South Korea
2,370,000+
32
Denmark
2,300,000+
33
Romania
2,280,000+
34
Singapore
2,260,000+
35
Japan
2,140,000+
36
Taiwan
2,050,000+
37
Ireland
1,740,000+
38
Kenya
1,740,000+
39
New Zealand
1,700,000+
40
Israel
1,670,000+
41
Norway
1,660,000+
42
Hong Kong
1,530,000+
43
Czech Republic
1,330,000+
44
Austria
1,160,000+
45
Finland
1,030,000+
User data was calculated using Linkedin search data and Linkedin official resources on about page
Summary of Linked Statistics 2020
Over 706 million total members worldwide
Over 72% of total members are outside of the United States.
55 job applications submitted every second
7 seconds between every Linkedin hire
50 million companies are listed on Linkedin
189 million+ members in North America
160 million+ members in Europe
190 million+ members in Asia
104 million+ members in Latin America
61 million+ members in the Middle East and Africa
20 million open jobs listed
90k schools listed
Linkedin has over 33 offices and 16,000 employees
Over 11 million+ C-level exec members globally
5.4 million+ small business owners members globally
IT decision-makers 6.6 million+ members globally
The search trend for Linkedin has more than doubled over the past 10 years according to Google trends.
Linkedin Financials and Info
1. Microsoft paid 26.2 Billion at $196 per share for Linkedin in June 2016.
2. Linkedin has had a 20% year over year growth in FY20.
3. According to Statistica, 43% of Linkedin users are female and 57% are male
4. A breakdown of Internet users in the United States who use LinkedIn based on age by Statistica
15-25 years old: 16%
26-35 years old: 27%
36-45 years old: 34%
46-55 years old: 37%
56+ years old: 29%
5. 29% of males online and 24% of females online use Linkedin according to the Pew research center.
6. 51% of college graduates use Linkedin which is an increase from previous years.
7. Recent data suggests 11% of people 65 or older use Linkedin
Linkedin Content Marketing Statistics and Info
1. There are currently over 50 million companies listed on Linkedin making it a great source for generating leads.
2. Over 92% of B2B marketers use LinkedIn to distribute content making it a top source for lead generation.
3. Linkedin has 15x more content impressions than job postings 57% of those are mobile making it a digital marketing powerhouse.
4. Linkedin has 9 billion content impressions and over 280 billion feed views annually in its userbase. This makes it a key for creating brand awareness for most companies.
5. Content shared across LinkedIn was up nearly 50% year-over-year in June 2020. Companies can also share content directly from their company page on Linkedin.
6. Linkedin had a 4X Year-over-year increase in Learning hours watched in June 2020 with an 89% increase in live streams sinch March 2020 making it a great source for lead generation.
6. According to Alexa, LinkedIn users spend an average of 10:35 minutes on the site each day with 8.46 Daily Pageviews per visit, and it ranks #58 in global internet traffic and engagement.
7. Data from Ahrefs shows Linkedin has 19,868,318,606 backlinks and 11,458,407 referring domains with a domain rating of 98. When creating a marketing strategy Linkedin should be near the top of the list.
8. Moz database shows that Linkedin ranks for over 15.7 million keywords in Google. Making it a top destination for marketers creating business-related quality content.
LinkedinConnection Statistics
According to Linkedin’s social media manager guide employees on average have 10 times the connections as their company has followers on LinkedIn.
Data from Linkedin shows the following most connected countries, industries, and job functions by an average number of connections.
The top 5 most connected countries are:
UAE with 211 average connections
The Netherlands with 188 average connections
Singapore with 152 average connections
The United Kingdom with 144 average connections
Denmark with 143 average connections
Top 5 most connected industries are:
Staffing and recruiting with 702 average connections
Venture capital and private equity with 423 average connections
Human resources with 380 average connections
Management consulting with 304 average connections
Online media with 303 average connections
Top 5 most connected job functions are:
Human resources with 415 average connections
Product management with 324 average connections
Business development with 283 average connections
Marketing with 272 average connections
Consulting with 244 average connections
Linkedin Popularity Compared to Other Social Networks
Recent data shows the following percentages of adults who use social media while Linkedin is the top site in the business world it still lags behind other social media platforms.
Additional data shows the demographics usage between Linkedin, Facebook, and Instagram. Linkedin is used slightly more by men worldwide than women though the gap is small.
Members in the range of 30-49 years of age are the largest demographic that use Linkedin.
% of U.S. adults who use each social media platform
Xing has more than 18 million members which is much smaller than Linkedin’s userbase of 706 million. However, Xing’s impact on the European market more prominent. Xing has over 18 million users in the DACH (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) area while LinkedIn currently has only 15 million.
Linkedin continues to see year over year user growth and with no strong competitors insight, it will continue that trend for years to come.
While marketers and salespeople know well the importance of personal branding, not everyone will have considered the benefits. In the age of social media, the importance of personal branding is gaining ground. This infographic offers some clear advice and steps for building your own personal brand.
Every one of us is unique. We all have our own individual skills, training, talents and experience, but do we share them effectively with potential employers, business partners and customers? Whether or not you create a personal brand, one exists. The only way you can ensure that yours correctly conveys your truth is to take an active interest in building it. You’ll find plenty of advice on how to build your brand if you just care to look.
Effective personal branding can help to reduce confusion and ensure that you show your target market who you are, which helps build a relationship of trust and confidence in your skills. Personal branding is your way of differentiating your skill set from that of your competitors. Personal branding is about communicating your values, goals, and beliefs.
Your brand must be consistent across social media platforms and should show your best attributes. These days, it is rare for an employer not to visit your sites before settling on a candidate so let those sites speak for you.
Jeff Bezos described the personal brand as “what people say about you when you’re not in the room.” So, put your best foot forward and ensure that you’re seen in the best possible light by actively building your brand.
There are many benefits of a powerful personal brand, from possessing a greater influence and credibility within your community, to having a constant stream of customers and business opportunities.
But just how does one become so powerful? Take a look at this infographic from Feldman Creative which gives you a comprehensive A to Z guide to building your personal brand.
Do you trade as yourself rather than as a company? Are you looking to build your personal brand rather than an organisations?
Whilst there are many similarities between marketing yourself and a company there are also many things that should be approached differently.
For help building your personal brand take a look at this infographic from Referral Candy which gives you 30 tips direct from the experts.
Dynamic, delicate connection between protein filaments enables hearing.
The sense of hearing is, quite literally, a molecular tightrope act. Turns out, it involves acrobatics as well.
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School (HMS), and Boston Children’s Hospital show that a dynamic and delicate connection between two pairs of diminutive protein filaments plays a central role in in hearing.
The tension held by these filaments, together called a tip link, is essential for the activation of sensory cells in the inner ear. The team’s analyses reveal that the filaments, which are joined end-to-end, work together like trapeze artists holding hands. Their grasp on each other can be disrupted, by a loud noise, for example. But with a two-handed grip, they can quickly reconnect when one hand slips.
The findings present a new understanding of the molecular underpinnings of hearing, as well as the sense of balance, which arises from similar processes in the inner ear. Disorders of deafness and balance have been linked to mutations in tip links, and the study results could lead to new therapeutic strategies for such disorders, according to the authors.
“This tiny apparatus, made of less than a dozen proteins, is what helps change sound from a mechanical stimulus into an electrical signal that the brain can decipher,” said co-corresponding author David Corey, Ph.D., the Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science at HMS. “Understanding how these proteins work provides insights into the secrets of the sensation of sound.”
The dynamic connection between the filaments may also function as a circuit breaker that protects other cellular components, according to the researchers.
“I think our study gives us a sense of awe for how perfectly engineered this system in the ear is,” said co-corresponding author Wesley Wong, Ph.D., an Associate Professor at the Wyss Institute, HMS, and Boston Children’s. “It maintains a delicate balance between being just strong enough to carry out its function but weak enough to break to potentially preserve the function of other elements that can’t be as easily reformed.”
Decoding the handshake
For hearing to occur, cells must detect and translate pressure waves in the air into bioelectrical signals. This task falls upon hair cells, the sensory cells of the inner ear. Protruding from these cells are bundles of hair-like structures, which bend back and forth as pressure waves move through the inner ear.
Tip link filaments physically connect each hair to another and are anchored onto specialized ion channels. As the bundle moves, the tension of the tip links changes, opening and closing the channels like a gate to allow electric current to enter the cell. In this way, tip links initiate the bioelectrical signals that the brain ultimately processes as sound.
In previous studies, Corey and colleagues explored the composition of tip links and identified the precise atomic structure of the bond between the two protein filaments. Intriguingly, this bond was evocative of a molecular handshake, according to the authors.
In the current study, Corey, Wong, and the team set out to understand the nature of this handshake. To do so, they applied single-molecule force spectroscopy, a technique that often uses optical tweezers—highly focused laser beams that can hold extremely small objects and move them by distances as short as a billionth of a meter.
The researchers, led by study first authors Eric Mulhall and Andrew Ward, Ph.D., both research fellows in neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, coated microscopic glass beads with strands of either protocadherin-15 or cadherin-23, the two proteins that make up the tip link. Using optical tweezers, they moved beads close to each other until the protein strands stuck together end to end and then measured the forces needed to pull the bonds apart.
Stronger than the sum
Each tip link is made up of two strands of both proteins. The team found that the strength of this double-stranded bond far surpassed the strength of the bond between individual strands of either protein. Under low tension, a double-stranded bond lasted ten times longer than a single-stranded bond before breaking.
This increased strength appears to be due to the dynamic nature of the connection, according to the authors. Rather than acting as a simple static rope, the filaments detach and reattach to each other within tenths of a second. A force may break one pair of strands apart, but the other pair can remain connected long enough for the broken pair to rejoin.
At extremely high forces, however, the double-stranded bond breaks rapidly. This feature may help to prevent catastrophic damage to other components of the hair cell, the authors said.
“If the tip link were super strong, then when exposed to a very loud sound it might rip the whole complex out of the cell membrane, which would be hard to recover from,” said Wong. “The ability to break with loud sounds is analogous to a mechanical circuit breaker,” he added. “This use of multiple weak bonds to form a tunable biological circuit breaker could potentially be very interesting for synthetically engineered systems.”
Surprisingly, the team found that under resting tension, each tip link lasts only around eight seconds before it breaks. Their analyses, coupled with evidence from other studies, suggest that new tip links can form rapidly from other strands of protein nearby. Together, the results support a new paradigm of highly dynamic tip link formation and rupture that both enables and protects hearing.
It’s hard to fix something if you don’t really know what’s broken, and we are optimistic that a better understanding can help lead to new solutions.
DAVID COREY
The team also looked at mutations to protocadherin-15 that are linked to Usher syndrome, a rare hereditary disorder of deafness and blindness. Their experiments suggest that some of these mutations can greatly weaken the bond between the tip link filaments. This may be why the disorder leads to deafness, and further mechanistic understanding of this process could lead to new therapeutic approaches, the authors said.
“It’s hard to fix something if you don’t really know what’s broken, and we are optimistic that a better understanding can help lead to new solutions,” Corey said.
In addition, the new findings may help inform study in other areas of the body.
“We have many different mechanical senses besides hearing, such as touch, the sensation of blood pressure, and certain types of pain,” Corey added. “We understand hearing in more molecular detail than any of the others—knowledge that can help us probe the workings of other mechanical senses.”
Additional authors of the study include Wyss Research Scientist Darren Yang, Ph.D. and former HMS graduate student Mounir Koussa, Ph.D.
The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
