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8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

Harvard Business Review

My 2016 trends offer early warnings and opportunities for managers in all industries. Here are eight to note for 2016. Algorithms will harness personal data in order to assess an employee’s predicted success at work: for example, how likely she is to bounce around jobs. HR managers can use bots to train employees.

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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business Review

A trained lawyer, James spent more than 20 years working in the legal industry in various capacities. During the latter part of 2016 and much of 2017, James, a music lover, helped plan and raise funds for the festival. Finances were a consideration. It was held last August. “And we got rave reviews.

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Deep questions: What diving teaches us about uncertainty and risk

Chartered Management Institute

In a hazardous world, managers can learn from the world of scuba diving: train hard, because you’ll never get rid of risk Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content Gareth Lock, founder of The Human Diver. In all sectors, tensions exist between competing pressures such as resources, finance, time and workload.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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To Go Digital, Leaders Have to Change Some Core Beliefs

Harvard Business Review

Every industry is built around some traditional assumptions, behaviors, and beliefs about how to create value (whether that means revenues, profits, or investor returns). In consulting, leaders invest in hiring and training people and then carefully track how they use their time. We need to be more like Oracle.

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How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

Let’s look at how The Salvation Army, a 150-year-old Christian charity that provides a variety of social services across the U.S. By February 2016, more than three-quarters of the Central Territory Corps were trained in the new model. Frontline Data as Wake Up Call.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business Review

Learning how to speed up growth to increase prosperity of this massive middle would have immeasurable societal value. Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. strategic hires).