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The 2020 Workplace: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies, Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd Harper Business/An im print of HaroerCollins (2010) How and why the HR function has become so much more important than many (most?)

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Free Job Search Apps for Specific Careers

HR Digest

Nowadays, there are apps for everything – be it looking for love, ordering something to eat, or booking a hotel. Founded – 2010. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that job search apps are also among the slurry of apps to improve our lives. ZipRecruiter Job Search. Headquarters – Santa Monica, California, USA.

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5 Ways Women in the Private Sector Can Turn the Economy Around

Strategy Driven

Vollmer, the founder of Jobenomics, a national grassroots movement dedicated to creating 20 million new US private sector jobs by year 2020, noted the potential women have as entrepreneurs to help the economy: “This is the decade of women-owned businesses. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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A $10 Trillion Bet on China and India

Harvard Business Review

In our new book, The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India , we posit that growth in China and India will not occur along a straight line, and both countries will have to overcome corruption, imprudent investments, social disharmony, pollution, natural disasters, and political conflict. Indians will spend $22.5

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Don't Underestimate China's Luxury Market

Harvard Business Review

trillion, with annual expenditures increasing from $2 trillion in 2010 to more than $6 trillion in 2020. In our book, The $10 Trillion Prize , we assert that China is poised by 2020 to become the world's biggest personal luxury market. By 2010, the number had risen to 221 million.

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China Wants the U.S. to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff, Too

Harvard Business Review

In our book, The Ten Trillion Dollar Prize , we provide rigorous analysis suggesting that China will achieve at least this level of annual growth, much of it supported by consumer spending. Specifically, we estimate that between 2010 and 2020, the people of China will spend $41.5 trillion to $6.2

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

Attitudes have changed since 2010, the last time Washington debated serious climate action, and not only because most of us have connected the dots between climate change and the extreme weather events that ravage our communities. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010. And the U.S.

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