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Why Every 21st Century Sales Leader Needs to Be a Creative Problem Solver

Great Leadership By Dan

Beyond solving strategic business or sales problems, how can we build our creative problem-solving capabilities to become more competitive in our careers and industries? As I’m fond of saying, “You can’t offshore, automate, or AI creativity.” That’s why I’m on a mission to share this skillset with sales executives.

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Why Immigration Is So Important In The Global Race For Talent

The Horizons Tracker

.” It assesses the landscape through the lens of data from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, China and India, with a particular focus on business school application data via GMAC’s Application Trends Survey Report 2019. ” German AI company Inveox provide a great example of this in action.

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Job Creation: Focus on Programs, Not Politics

Harvard Business Review

Forty percent of respondents to a Kauffman Foundation entrepreneur survey cited the lack of qualified workers as "the biggest obstacle standing in the way of continued growth." These are not jobs that can be offshored — they must be filled right here. And numbers from Deloitte indicate that U.S. While the U.S.

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How Technology Has Affected Wages for the Last 200 Years

Harvard Business Review

But without a robust labor market, textile workers could not look forward to a long career at different workplaces and so they had little reason to invest in learning. Now, however, automation and offshoring have eliminated many of those jobs for weavers and steelworkers and typographers; many of the old skills are obsolete.

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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. innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. In a recent survey of 369 manufacturers , researchers found that across a range of fields U.S. While few SMMs entertain offshoring strategies, they do, increasingly, compete globally. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

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The Most Attractive Cities to Move to for Work

Harvard Business Review

See More Videos > See More Videos > For individuals, younger workers see a flatter world and prioritize international experiences and mobility for career development. According to a PwC report on Millennials , 71% desire to work abroad at some point in their career. They need to be more flexible and open to moving around today.

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