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   "text": "Diversity programs fail when managers are defined as the source of the problem and succeed when they engage managers in finding solutions, as with task forces and targeted recruiting.",
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   "text": "Companies should focus more on mentoring programs and less on formal evaluations, because mentorship with a superior manager helped minorities succeed.",
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   "text": "Although the Shasper Network itself is permissionless, the SDAO deliberately imposes a prior registration requirement in order to push validator candidates to educate themselves about network requirements and to attend to the documentation.",
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   "text": "Traditional corporate loyalty programs fail because they saddle issuers with delayed obligations and cannot hold participants without pushing them toward speculation; LER is designed to avoid both defects.",
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