Jerry Jarvis, the managing director of Edexcel, one of the three big exam boards, has said that early adopters of the diploma risk emerging with a worthless qualification.

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If management insists on continuing to use vague and subjective performance criteria that have repeatedly been shown to play such a large role in excluding women from executive suites, Boards of Directors and the offices of equity and managing partners worldwide, applying the force of the law may be the only answer.

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He was managing director of McKinsey until he retired in 2007 and served on boards of leading companies, including Goldman Sachs.

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Whereas Boards, CEOs, CMOs and corporate marketers are fairly adept at judging and managing the value, efficacy and quality of conventional marketing and media strategies, because they are essentially uncertain about what is going on in social media they can be easily led astray.

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