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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

Although the recession ended in 2009, here we are five years later and unemployment for Generation Y (1982-1995) remains near its cyclical peak across the world. This generation is the first to be raised in a post-industrial era driven by technology. I believe the answer is yes. So how do we lead this generation of rookie talent?

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Or so he thought, until one interaction changed the trajectory of his career. He told us: “In a Phillips Leadership Conclave in 2009, I listened to the presentation of Dr. Aravind Srinivasan (from Aravind Eye Care Hospital , the world renowned low-cost eye hospital with a mission “to eliminate needless blindness”).

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. from 2005 to 2015 came from freelance work.