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5 Insights to Managing Chaordic Tension

Leading Blog

According to the Small Business Administration, about half of all businesses fail within five years ( PDF ). Intuitively, yes, entrepreneurship is a risky career path. But on the other side of that equation is the influence of sound business practices, planning, due diligence, and adaptability on business success.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Could I see the future as a projection of the strides I’ve been able to make, similar to what other women in business have done? I had to step back and think about the themes in my own career and what I’ve been hearing this year from women all over the country. million women-owned businesses in the U.S., million in 2011.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

The solution is machine learning —computers automatically discovering patterns and developing new knowledge by furiously feeding on modern society's greatest and most potent unnatural resource : data. have business models that hinge on predictive models based on machine learning. Vegetarians miss fewer flights.

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What Is The Future Of Ageing Populations?

The Horizons Tracker

The report highlights how the proportion of the working age population aged between 50 and the state pension age will grow from an already significant 26% in 2012 to 34% by 2050, which represents a growth of some 5.5 .” The changing nature of work. million people. ” The value of lifelong learning. .

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

This new era of focus on creative problem solving has been ushered in by massive disruption of the old order in business and society. New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. How did you develop it?

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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business Review

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. What might business models of the future look like?

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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. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.