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Why do so many leadership development programs fail?

Great Results Team Building

Reflection that is not translated into new and consistent action is a recipe for failure if the goal is helping people to learn a new skill. Concepts and theories are important, but without teaching and implementing new behaviors there is no growth or development of skills.

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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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How To Persuade When Compensation Isn’t Offered

The Horizons Tracker

This remarkable ability to solicit support without a traditional transactional exchange is an invaluable skill, particularly in today’s digital era characterized by a barrage of written appeals vying for attention in our email inboxes and social media feeds on a daily basis.

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How Have Industrial Robots Affected American Workers?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers examined the role of industrial robotics during the 2009-2017 period characterized by the Great Recession. The report suggests that robots have not caused the wastage of jobs across the country that many predicted, but that certain groups of workers, regions and industries have been vulnerable.

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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.

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Technology Isn’t Destroying Jobs, But Is Increasing Inequality

The Horizons Tracker

Whilst the likes of the Frey and Osborne paper predicted a pretty widespread demolition of 47% of all jobs, the reality is that those with low-skilled, routine jobs are far more at risk. The thing is, those with low skills have been on the receiving end of pretty much every shift in the labor market over the past decade.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business Review

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. Second, the gap in shareholder returns earned by the group of investment banks in the top quartile compared with the average of those in the bottom quartile has grown from 30% in 2007 to more than 100% in 2017. Investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed. Lehman Brothers toppled.