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How to use Measurement to Manage Like a Pro

Lead on Purpose

While you might hear these statements from any manager, they all have one thing in common: the lack of specificity. Organizations need good managers and exceptional leaders (at all levels of your business). Test your management strategies. How are you managing your team? That’s why most managers don’t risk doing it.

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The global company’s challenge

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is a brief excerpt from another terrific article featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which Martin Dewhurst, Jonathan Harris, and Suzanne Heywood explain why, as the economic spotlight shifts to developing markets, global companies need new ways to manage their strategies, people, costs, and risks.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business Review

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Economists Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger found that American workers in alternative work arrangements, including temp workers, increased by 9.4

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Why I Tell My MBA Students to Stop Looking for a Job and Join the Gig Economy

Harvard Business Review

Twenty–30% of the working age population do some form of independent work, according to McKinsey’s Global Institute , and that share is growing rapidly. Economists Larry Katz and Alan Krueger found that all of the net employment growth in the U.S. In 2000, during the dot-com crash, that rate fell below 2%.

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What Business Can Learn from Government

Harvard Business Review

With Washington mired in gridlock, local governments are being left “to grapple with super-sized economic, social, and environmental challenges,” Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution has asserted. We are certainly not saying that all cities are well managed. The first is exemplified by South Bend, Ind.,