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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing. How do you prepare for what you don’t know because it is changing so fast? Marti Konstant .

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

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S. multinationals by the McKinsey Global Institute. of all U.S.

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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 current recycling technology is limited. The domestic remanufacturing industry grew by 15% between 2009 and 2011 to "at least $43.0 Recycling aluminum requires around 1.7