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The Wisdom Wave: Preparing for the Surge of Senior Professionals.

Rich Gee Group

This is up from 16% in 2011. The industries expected to see the most significant growth in older workers include healthcare, education, and professional and business services. By 2030, 25% of the US workforce will be over the age of 55. Older workers are more likely to be employed full-time than younger workers.

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My Best Blogs of 2011

In the CEO Afterlife

So, with the help of WordPress analytics and content judgment, here’s my list of the top ’CEO Afterlife’ blogs of 2011. To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education. ” Self-assessment is never easy.

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Leadership Development and Educating our Young :: Women on Business

Women on Business

There is lots of conflicting research about what really matters in the process to educate children. The training we get is partly also a residual of the Industrial Revolution. Education is not bringing forth from the core of the young the ability to learn and discern. Were you an academic star or just muddled through?

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Changes In Job-Related Training Since Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

The authors highlight that this is far from a new trend, and indeed concerns have been expressed for many years about the paucity of investment in skills and education, especially in the face of skills gaps in a growing number of disciplines and productivity that has flatlined in recent years. in 2011 to 6.4 in 2011 to 6.4

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0819 | How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen Within Organizations with Jim Kouzes

LDRLB

Jim Kouzes is a bestselling author, an award-winning speaker and, according to the Wall Street Journal, one of the twelve best executive educators in the United States. Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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Are We Really Prepared for a More Automated Future?

Lead Change Blog

There have been some really great reads on the topic ranging from the 2011 ebook, Race Against the Machine by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson out of MIT, to the recent LinkedIn post, What Happens When Millions of Jobs Are Lost Because of Automation? Why is the at-large education system failing our youth when it comes to automation?

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Business Jobs Scarce in List of 20 Best-Paying Jobs For Women In 2012

Women on Business

that men earn, and that applies to jobs in most industries and at all levels. Forbes analyzed the median weekly earnings of full-time American workers in 2011 by occupation and gender using data from the U.S. NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Women still earn just $0.82 for every $1.00 Similarly, female marketing and sales managers (No.

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