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3 Ways Executives Can Champion Lifelong Learning

Lead Change Blog

With fall officially here, children are now fully settled in at school, businesses are back up to full speed after summer vacations, and many of us are taking stock of our 2017 resolutions – and how to accomplish them before the holidays approach. Learning not only benefits ourselves but helps advance our communities as well.

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Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs

Harvard Business Review

However, 48% of the mid-sized world market leaders come from Germany. Nearly all of them survived the great recession of 2008-2009. Drucker Forum 2017: Growth and Inclusive Prosperity. This article is one in a series related to the 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in November 2017 in Vienna, Austria.

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Research: When the Economy Is Good, Employers Demand Fewer Credentials

Harvard Business Review

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. That share jumped to 35% in 2010 has since fallen to just 12% as of 2017. First, some context.

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Why U.S. Grocery Chains Need More (and Better) Store-Brand Products

Harvard Business Review

In 2017, German discount grocery retailers ALDI and LIDL announced plans to open hundreds of new stores across the United States. Also in 2017, online retail giant Amazon bought Whole Foods, and has been rolling out a series of experiments in ordering, pricing, and delivery in stores across the country. market share in the country.

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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. Connectors in the middle. Customer experience creators.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business Review

The market panicked. The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. They are subject to more rigorous stress testing by regulators and have to develop plans aimed at ensuring that they can recover from a crisis. This is most apparent in the credit markets, where revenues have shrunk by more than 40% from pre-crisis peaks.

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Smart Business is Business Redefined

Leading Blog

In 2009 it was reimagined as an online shopping festival. In 2017, three minutes after the day opened at midnight, $1.5 In 2017, three minutes after the day opened at midnight, $1.5 It’s amazing when you think that VISA’s stated capacity as of August 2017 was 65,000 payments per second globally. billion dollars.