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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. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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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. Coding, budgeting, and marketing operations are examples. Often used interchangeably, reskilling, and upskilling have different meanings. Upskilling refers to advancing within your current function. These were code words for marketing automation.

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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. So how do you keep them? For example, Vail Resorts, a $1.9

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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% shares of the global operations of U.S.-based GDP while undertaking 40.9%

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Seven Ways CEOs and Investors Can Promote the Long Term

Harvard Business Review

While this CEO's comment accurately portrays the general state of affairs, I agree with Dominic Barton of McKinsey that companies can attract and cultivate investors interested in the creation of value over the long term. Globally, these asset owners manage significant sums, exceeding $50 trillion at the end of 2009. over this period.

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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. In this case its capital charge is $800 times 8%, or $64.

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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. Growth will benefit operations that design for durability , employ repair technicians, warehouse replacement parts, create service documentation , and build software to facilitate them all.