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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing. Power skills are long-lasting, transferable across a number of work environments and roles, and can developed. Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. Business development. Software and app developers.

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Have You Trained Your Replacement?

Persuasive Powerhouse

He has been a tank platoon leader, a McKinsey consultant, a senior executive, and now runs thoughtLEADERS – a leadership development and training firm. Develop yourself – and if you can, develop others. Your team will thank you for doing so after you leave. You do not have to be in a “leadership position&#.

Training 257
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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. These overlooked roles are: Essential experts.

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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% private-sector research and development. GDP while undertaking 40.9%

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Seven Ways CEOs and Investors Can Promote the Long Term

Harvard Business Review

They are not interested in hearing about the technological, regulatory, and societal developments that will determine the long-term, strategic positioning of this company.". Globally, these asset owners manage significant sums, exceeding $50 trillion at the end of 2009. Here are four specific recommendations: 4. over this period.

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We're Running Out of Resources, and It's Going to Be OK

Harvard Business Review

The McKinsey Global Institute reports that price volatility has hit a high , second only to the energy crisis of the 1970s. And I believe developing more resource-efficient business models will be the largest single financial opportunity of the twenty-first century. Some businesses are already adapting.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. rate for other companies.