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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

In a truly innovative move, the new management team rewrote the employee handbook giving the green light to profanity and dirty jokes “because a loose, fun, nonlinear atmosphere is important to the creative process. With the newspaper industry being what it is, the employees of the Trib had some choices to make.

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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. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Rehearse your pitch.

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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. Finally, many industries are responding to the pressures of the last few years by differentiating themselves.

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The Aging of American Businesses

Harvard Business Review

businesses in 2011—up from 23 percent in 1992, for an increase of half in just under two decades. This is especially remarkable considering the volume of product innovations and household-name businesses that have emerged in the last two decades. Mature firms (those aged 16 years or more) comprised 34 percent of U.S.

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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.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Until a few years ago Steve Cronce’s Raphael Industries did $1 million dollars a year of specialized industrial painting for customers within driving distance of their plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more.