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Changes In Job-Related Training Since Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

in 2011 to 6.4 “It appears that these general declines apply across industries, with the exception of the construction and wholesale & retail sectors where expenditure per trainee appears to have risen between 2011 and 2017, though average days per trainee declined in these sectors.” in 2011 to 6.4

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How to Lead Like a Pig

Next Level Blog

With the newspaper industry being what it is, the employees of the Trib had some choices to make. Check Your Sense of Humor:  That hair trigger, quick witted, maybe sharp tongued sense of humor that gets you a lot of laughs when you’re out with your friends doesn’t play so well when you’re the senior leader.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Being sharp means being succinct. Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Additionally know what you have to trade.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. We’ve established a strong correlation between coherence, as we define it, and superior performance over time in a number of industries. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago?

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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

A recent story in the New York Times highlighted a pair of high school students who had experienced considerable success as app developers. They received acclaim and took meetings with heavyweights at industry conferences. In this way, the industry parallels drug dealing. Not bad, but hardly Zuckerbergian. This is not uncommon.

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China's Stubbornly High Food Prices

Harvard Business Review

in September 2011, down slightly from the three-year peak of 6.5% in July 2011 — appears likely to remain a priority. in September 2011, the same as in August, though down from a July 2011 peak increase of 14.8% — staying so stubbornly high? For Beijing, tackling China's high inflation rate — 6.1%

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks.