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Changes In Job-Related Training Since Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

The pandemic has obviously wrought huge disruption to the labor market, both in terms of the jobs that are available and the skills required to fulfil them. The report, which focused on the UK market, reveals that not only has the frequency of training declined, but so too has the duration and quality of training. in 2011 to 6.4

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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. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp).

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

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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With Fewer New Firms, the High-Tech Sector is Losing its Dynamism

Harvard Business Review

Labor markets reflect this churning: some jobs are created while others are destroyed, and some workers move into new roles as others seek to replace them. A particularly important component of this dynamic process is the entrepreneur, who starts a venture to create a new market or to replace incumbents in an existing one.

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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. He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. I am no longer limited by geography.”

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business Review

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. While the industry is growing rapidly, it is also highly volatile. They argue that the market has become saturated because of the barriers to entry are low (do we really need 53 subscription box companies offering sex products?),

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market.