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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Complex problem solving is the core skill for 21st century teams. Their new book is BULLETPROOF PROBLEM SOLVING: The One Skill That Changes Everything. New Skills Required. Would you share a little about the evolution of managerial skills and what skills are needed in the current era? Bulletproof Problem Solving.

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Strategy as a Problem Solving Process

Strategy Driven

These comments by Mehrdad Baghai, strategist and author, commend our book Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill that Changes Everything. Teams and agile methodology have become the dominant form of organization for environments featuring high uncertainty and rapid change, where business models are challenged by disrupters.

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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

What set of skills should companies invest in? Pilots are a critical pool of talent for an airline; there must be a sufficient supply with appropriate skills to operate the airline. This is a classic proficiency role : though the skills are high level, beyond a certain standard, higher performance won’t yield more value.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

As business leaders and managers, we have become increasingly capable of engaging a workforce that is some combination of virtual and on site, part time and full time, permanent and contingent. How, when, and where should leaders be thinking about applying the various automation technologies to their businesses?

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Why I Tell My MBA Students to Stop Looking for a Job and Join the Gig Economy

Harvard Business Review

The best preparation I can offer students is to help them cultivate the mindset, skills, and toolkit to succeed in this new world of independent work. Startup businesses used to create about 3 million jobs a year in the U.S. Instead of creating jobs, companies are increasingly disaggregating work from a job.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. How talent management is changing. Insight Center.