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How to Win with AI and Automation

HR Digest

INVESTING IN HUMAN RESOURCES. It is critical to reverse the trend of declining public investment in worker training in poorer nations. Business leaders, government, and innovators all need to cooperate to more readily organize public and private drives, including making the right incentives to invest more in human capital.

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Chip Shots – The Power of Interdisciplinary Efforts

Lead Change Blog

A recent Forbes article identified the Top 10 Business Trends That Will Drive Success In 2015. Here is a comment made about one of the trends, interdisciplinary workshops : “The best companies will recognize that the entire organization can contribute to valuable content, and each team member plays a role in selling. .”

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German Car and Truck Maker Takes Email Out of Vacation

leaderCommunicator

In a Financial Times article about the new program, Wilfried Porth, board member for human resources for the German company, said: “Our employees should relax on holiday and not read work-related emails. While Daimler’s plan may seem out of the question for many work-obsessed Americans, it fits into a growing trend in Europe.

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What Women Leaders Bring to the New Decade :: Women on Business

Women on Business

We are here to cooperate with them in a new and more productive way. It includes men, invites men as partners to rethink what we are doing to the planet, why we continue to put work ahead of family, ahead of raising the next generation, how much is enough, what really matters. We are not here to become like our men.

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Leadership and a Cup of Tea :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Leadership is about being a model of behaving in ways that create cooperation and collaboration. The Vietnamese name for teacher is Thay, and that moment of having “Tea with Thay” is still comforting when the business of the day begins to overtake me. Please share some of your best practices for reducing stress and renewing your spirit.

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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

A trend also emerged that organizations where colleagues almost never cc’ed others were the least distrustful. Managed well, transparency can lead to the type of company most people usually have in mind when they talk about it: a safe and smart organization built on trust and cooperation. How to wield transparency effectively.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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