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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Complex problem solving is the core skill for 21st century teams. Their new book is BULLETPROOF PROBLEM SOLVING: The One Skill That Changes Everything. New Skills Required. Would you share a little about the evolution of managerial skills and what skills are needed in the current era? Bulletproof Problem Solving.

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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

An early champion of the Men Advocating Real Change (MARC) gender inclusion program, Chevron recognizes the true power it can have to build self-awareness, foster individual inclusion skills, and sustain a culture of inclusion across the organization. Efforts to bring more diversity to the oil and gas industry are working.

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Who Wins in the Gig Economy, and Who Loses

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated from jobs and reorganized into a variety of alternative arrangements, such as consulting projects, freelance assignments, and contract opportunities. Workers with specialized skills, deep expertise, or in-demand experience win in the gig economy. All of that is changing.

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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

What set of skills should companies invest in? Pilots are a critical pool of talent for an airline; there must be a sufficient supply with appropriate skills to operate the airline. Significant investment also takes place in cockpit technology as well as in training and development (e.g.,

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

As business leaders and managers, we have become increasingly capable of engaging a workforce that is some combination of virtual and on site, part time and full time, permanent and contingent. The second area of opportunity with cognitive automation is for companies to develop new products and services.

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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

A disaggregated laptop that is lighter and more versatile, since I can use the screen by itself as an e-reader and the keyboard with other devices. Boeing refers to its global "value webs," an approach that turns managers into systems integrators. I recently bought an iPad. After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing.