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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

Stanley and Joel Lehman present their research in their new book, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective , and argue that it has serious implications for humans as well. When made to seek novelty, his robots developed surprising and creative solutions to problems they could not previously solve.

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How PwC and The Washington Post Are Finding and Hiring External Talent

Harvard Business Review

According to Deloitte’s 2016 Global Human Capital Trends study , 51% of global executives surveyed said their organizations plan to increase or significantly increase the use of contingent workers in the next three to five years; only 16% expect a decrease. This percentage is expected to grow in the coming years.

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