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Exposure To Different Careers Can Help Overcome The Skills Gap

The Horizons Tracker

When we start out in our career we’re often placed in the perverse situation of expecting to know exactly what we want to do for the next 40/50 years while having no real experience of any career, let alone the multiple careers that might give us a realistic ability to appraise which one suits us best.

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A Guide to Finding and Hiring the Best Contractors

Harvard Business Review

To help companies better understand who contractors are, where they are in their career paths, what they want out of their next job, and where they can be found, we recently aggregated and analyzed data from public LinkedIn profiles. Appeal to what contractors want from their careers.

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What Mentors Wish Their Mentees Knew

Harvard Business Review

As academic physicians, we have responded to this overture countless times in our careers. Other times, mentees need a sponsor : senior physicians (such as chiefs, chairs, or deans) who have garnered substantial social and political capital over their careers. Transforming Health Care. Insight Center.

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Yes, they are closer to the business and should know better what they need to do so they can meet their business goals. Yes, they are closer to the business and should know better what they need to do so they can meet their business goals. Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Or is there a bigger, more resonant, and fundamentally worthier goal we could — and should — be pursuing, like ensuring no human being goes thirsty?"

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Social Means Freedom, for Better or for Worse

Harvard Business Review

These experts are highly briefed on the purpose and goals of the SU organization. A construct of circles rather than hierarchies allows an organization to tap into the so-called " freelance nation ," the global talent pool of the creative class. And, of course, this affects management's role and how we all manage our careers.