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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

It is a tough time as they bank on social capital and how to maintain cohesion without the benefit of informal coffee, lunch or smoke breaks. The need to reskill and enable individuals to learn marketable new skills during their lifetime will be a critical challenge – and for poorer nations, a sweeping challenge.

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Building Customer Communities Is the Key to Creating Value

Harvard Business Review

As I described in my last post , your prospective customers and buyers increasingly learn about you from their peers — including your current customers — while tending more and more to ignore traditional sales and marketing communications from corporate. This is an area of tremendous creativity.

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The Serendipity Machine

Mills Scofield

The power of viral marketing makes it sensible for Seats2meet.com to provide workspaces without asking for financial compensation. In return, they were able to get rid of their marketing department. So Seats2meet.com invented a currency for nonmonetary, nontransactional exchange, aptly calling it social capital.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

Often the debate turns ideological, arguing that the (emerging-world) conglomerate is an intrinsically better construct than the (Western) focused firm. The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt.

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Does Work Make You Happy? Evidence from the World Happiness Report

Harvard Business Review

The available categories cover many kinds of jobs, including being a business owner, office worker, or manager, and working in farming, construction, mining, or transport. This is the case across a variety of labor-intensive industries like construction, mining, manufacturing, transport, farming, fishing, and forestry. Related Video.

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How to Respond When You’re Left Out of Important Meetings

Harvard Business Review

When you don’t get a seat at the table and it’s negatively affecting your team’s ability to collaborate, coordinate, and communicate as they work toward your organization’s goals, it’s your responsibility to come forth, advocate for yourself and your team, and raise the issue in a constructive manner.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. ” “Just don’t forget we’re in construction, not banking, Derek. The two men went way back.