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Leading Job Growth in the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. This photograph from the period, O home e o neno , shows a man and his son crying as some of their dearest relatives board the boat to Buenos Aires.

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HBR’s Guide to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

Harvard Business Review

As the President sets out on a post-speech tour to sell his policies, here are management experts’ perspectives on some of those proposals: Minimum Wage. In one of the biggest applause lines of the night, Obama declared, “It is time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‘Mad Men’ episode.”

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. effectively connected their ideas to the particular national moods aroused by Thatcher's economic policies. More >>.