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How Skills Will Be Crucial As We Adapt To The Post-Covid World

The Horizons Tracker

The report builds upon the Skills Benchmarking tool developed by the company to help organizations not only understand the skills they have, but how their workforce compares with their peers. What the report does make clear, however, is the clear link between skills and organizational performance. Organizational health.

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Working Mothers Are Important Contributors to the U.S. Labor Force

HR Digest

Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that the labor force participation of women in their prime, aged between 25 and 54, has increased to 77.8 Census Bureau having reported that working mothers made up almost one-third of the U.S. They also reported an average $340 per week cost to send a child to a daycare facility.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 Our ways of thinking about careers, colleagues, and collaboration will need to become more flexible and adaptable. Photo by Christine Roy. The result is likely to be intensified global competition for talent.

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Adopt an Immigrant Mindset to Advance Your Career

Harvard Business Review

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. The immigrant mentality has proven time and again to accelerate careers and build enterprise. trillion — more than the GDP of most countries. Heinz and others.

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Microfinance Is Good for Women, but It's Only Part of the Solution

Harvard Business Review

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. more hours than men on unpaid work, including caring for family members, each day.

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

Heres what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. Imagine all the veins in your body suddenly shrinking and collapsing — Avada Kedavra!!

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. Apple, the single exception, operates as a startup. And Big Business did not even make those bets.