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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. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Adapt ideas from other industries. How are you most comfortable in building relationships for new business?

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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. Further, we found that the aging of the business sector during this period has been universal across the American economy—occurring in every state and metropolitan area, in every firm size category, and in each broad industrial sector.

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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

They received acclaim and took meetings with heavyweights at industry conferences. Unfortunately, app development came at the expense of schoolwork, resulting in a sharp decline in one developer’s grades as the pair headed into the college application season. In this way, the industry parallels drug dealing. Hear me out.

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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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