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Book Review: The Coming Jobs War

Lead on Purpose

This really has to be a war on job loss, on low workplace energy, on healthcare costs, on low graduation rates, on brain drain, and on community disengagement,” he says. Those things destroy cities, destroy job growth and destroy city GDP. More money, jobs and GDP turns on who is named manager than on any other decision,” says Clifton.

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CEO Next Door Book Reveals Four Key Behaviors Of Successful CEOs And Busts CEO Myths

Eric Jacobson

This “Moneyball for leadership” approach showed that much of the conventional wisdom about what it takes to become a CEO and succeed is wrong. Question : What do prevailing stereotypes about leadership get wrong? And hiring or holding onto the wrong CEOs costs shareholders an estimated $112 billion in lost market value every year.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. costs quite dramatically over the next decade.

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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Because most managers are simply unbearable. But there is one upside to incompetent management: by failing to attend to their employees' ideas, and continuing to demoralize their staff, bad leaders accidentally stimulate entrepreneurship. Does this imply that we should hope for more incompetent leadership in the future?

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Working Mothers Are Important Contributors to the U.S. Labor Force

HR Digest

They also reported an average $340 per week cost to send a child to a daycare facility. The report also indicated that employers with children who are three and below can cost employers $1,150 per year as a result of inadequate child care, and a total business loss of $12.7 billion across companies.

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Is the Cost of Innovation Falling?

Harvard Business Review

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. Those who say the cost is dropping often point to the dramatically falling costs of computing power.

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Democracy's Debt Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

And at that time, the United States had a public debt/GDP ratio of around 65% — a number that has since passed 100%. According to The Economist , the world's governments currently hold debts of approximately $45 trillion (relative to a world GDP of $65 trillion ). Nearly every major democracy is now struggling with public debt.

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