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Raising Pay Can Help Organizations Overcome The Talent Shortage

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, the unemployment rate has remained low throughout the decade since Oxford’s Frey and Osborne ignited the latest wave of concern about the impact of technology on jobs. Ton argues that a more motivational and fulfilling approach is to cross-train employees so they can perform both customer-facing and non-customer-facing tasks.

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How To Reach One’s Full Potential

Strategy Driven

Learn how to use the right part of your brain when you need it. A trained coach by ICF accredited institution, Accomplishment Coaching, Akshay founded his life coaching program, Existing2Living. For more information on Akshay Nanavati, please contact Eliza Osborn at 877 841 7244, or email eosborn@beautifulplanning.com.

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Avoiding The Technology Trap In The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so.

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The Problem-Solving Process That Prevents Groupthink

Harvard Business Review

First, few people get training in how to be creative in their education. Unfortunately, quite a bit of research demonstrates that the traditional brainstorming methods first described by Alex Osborn in the 1950’s fail. There are two reasons most of us aren’t very good at creative problem solving.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. Management’s challenge is to figure out how to capture the benefits of digitization, while minimizing the costs – and making sure those costs are shared and not borne disproportionately by one group.

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The Power of Tenacity By Samuel R. Chand

Ron Edmondson

Tom Fleming, a two-time winner of the New York City Marathon and now a coach, described his mind-set in races: “I was given a body that could train every single day, and a mind, a mentality, that believed that if I trained every day—and I could train every day—I’ll beat you. The mentality was I will do whatever it takes to win.

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