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Research Reveals That Apprenticeships Offer A Bright Future To Participants

The Horizons Tracker

“Credentialism runs wild in slack labor markets, ratcheting up qualifications well beyond what is genuinely needed to do a job,” explains Johns Hopkins University’s Katherine Newman in her recent book Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor.

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Taking a Look at the Future of Oil and Gas Industry

Strategy Driven

In the US, they grew at a rate of 100 percent from 2000 to 2018. The clear focus is on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and tackling climate change. In the meantime, alternative sources of energy, such as solar and wind, are surging. Figures there and elsewhere suggest they are the fastest-growing energy option on the globe.

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How Credit Card Companies Make Their Money

Strategy Driven

Copyright 2007-2018 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This effectively runs up debt more reliably than if they advertised the same way across the board. On average, each credit account makes about $213 for the company per year. This is an area in which credit companies vary wildly based on the credit standing of the cardholder.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Sources: [1] “Bubba,” “Unconventional Tactics: What Thomas Edison Can Teach Us About Self-Promotion,” Branding Beat (blog), accessed November 17, 2018, www.qualitylogoproducts.com/blog/thomas-edison-self-promotion. [2] He offers a unique perspective on innovation and winning in the marketplace. 2] Cawthorne, Tesla vs Edison, pg.

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What Your Moonshot Can Learn from the Apollo Program

Harvard Business Review

SpaceX, taking a page from NASA’s playbook, just announced that it will fly tourists around the moon in 2018.). These projects, and the organizations that run them, are not about miraculously mastering wild technologies, but about harnessing existing knowledge, expertise, and energy in the service of some great goal.

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Is Your C-Suite Working As A Team?

Lead Change Blog

The Deloitte 2018 Global Human Capital Trends Survey identified ten common themes that are keeping global business leaders awake at night and the overwhelming winner was the lack of alignment and collaboration at board level (the C-Suite). However, this is all about to change.

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Tesla Shows How Traditional Business Metrics Are Outdated

Harvard Business Review

However, Tesla recently said that its gross margins on the Model 3 could hit 25% in 2018, which is comparable to the Model S and X and nearly twice as high as gross margins from Ford and GM. Here are some of the areas I see as most ripe for change: Market share is one of the most widely used, and wildly misused, business metrics.