N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement Organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of evolving into learning organizations to remain competitive and adapt to continuous market changes. A McKinsey report suggests that organizations embracing continual improvement experience 20-30% productivity gains.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The labor force participation rates are quite astounding, with Trading Economics reporting that the numbers have decreased to 62.7 The highest point of the labor force participation rate reaches all the way back to January 2000 when 67.3 percent in October 2023. This is one of the primary reasons for the labor shortage.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

The research was arguably the first study that attempted to predict how technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics would impact the labour market. He also touches on the evident need to improve educational opportunities for people throughout their life so that they can develop the skills needed to move into new careers.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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 Labor force participation rates are also clear on the fact that working mothers with younger children (aged below 5) were less likely to participate in the workforce earlier.

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GDP McKinsey Participative Report 98

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

No career paths absolutely require an MBA—it’s an optional degree and is nothing like a JD, an MD or the other credentials that professions such as law and medicine make mandatory. So ask yourself: What market am I in now? What markets might I seek to enter in the future? How are MBAs perceived in these markets?

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Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In a dynamic economy workers are expected to adapt, to change not just jobs but sometimes careers, to pick up new skills when necessary. If a program has a low cost per student but fails to actually help people forge a solid career, then the fact that the failure is cheap does not make it any less of a failure.

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Metrics TCO Training Cost-Benefit Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Which customers can’t participate in a market because they lack skills, wealth, or convenient access to existing solutions?

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