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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Shook has created the engine known for attracting, developing and retaining great talent who enjoy Accenture’s collaborative, innovative, and highly diverse culture.

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Is Becoming Self-Employed All It’s Cracked Up To Be?

The Horizons Tracker

The research examined data from the National Science Foundation on over 28,000 scientists and engineers to assess any changes in their employment status and their work outcomes between 2003 and 2010. A recent study aimed to explore whether the independent worker image matches up to the reality.

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Smart Social Media Helps Jobs Find You

Harvard Business Review

It's been obvious since 2003, when LinkedIn was launched, that social networking could help job candidates and employers interact. As such opportunities grow, career coaches need to adapt to the new environment, too. Ralph Paone, a champion college debater, never considered seeking a career in advertising after graduation.

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Getting Collaboration Right

Harvard Business Review

Daimler's engineers in Germany could not work with their Chrysler counterparts in Detroit , leading to the sale of the latter at a loss of some $35 billion. Massive failures abound in the business world. Sony was unable to come up with its version of iPod/iTunes because divisions competed with one another.

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Making Caregiving Compatible with Work

Harvard Business Review

If an employee can accomplish work with a modified or non-standard schedule, if he eschews face time because a disabled child at home loves and needs to eat dinner with him, if a woman engineer takes a year maternity leave and wants to return—what is a manager to do? Employ the new, adaptable rice cooker!

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The Traits of Socially Innovative Companies

Harvard Business Review

In 2003, when Rámon de Mendiola took over as CEO of Florida Ice & Farm Company, Costa Rica’s leading beer and beverage producer, the firm was an old-fashioned and complacent incumbent facing imminent competition from world-class global competitors. Changing Your Company from the Inside Out. Add to Cart.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.