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Saudi Arabia’s Labor Market Challenge

Harvard Business Review

One of the most overlooked aspects of this challenge is the makeup of the Kingdom’s talent pool, and other domestic labor market realities. Reform in those areas will prove to be a key factor in whether Saudi Arabia can achieve its long-term economic goals. Education is the starting point. How likely is change?

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Fight the Nine Symptoms of Corporate Decline

Harvard Business Review

People become self-absorbed and lose sight of the wider context — customers, constituencies, markets, or the world. What's going on inside becomes more important than any external goal. You might not see absenteeism, but there is "presenteeism," which means the body is there but the mind is absent. Silos harden.