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Today's Workforce in the Global Marketplace

Coaching Tip

They constantly generate new innovations; they use new networks to solve problems in an innovative manner, provided their interest is piqued. This generation grew up with social media and technologies-- they now expect their leaders to be inspiring, responsive, available and open. The network economy is going to be mainstream.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

Many of the paradigms we learned in school and built our careers on are either incomplete or ineffective. ” But in a networked economy, the nature of strategy, value creation, and competitive advantage change from incremental to exponential. We have built our reputations and careers on the mastery of these old models.

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