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Inside the Big Tech’s Brutal Layoffs

HR Digest

The month ushered in an utterly haunting whiplash in the form of ‘layoffs,’ and shattered the stability of thousands of technology workers across the States. The dot-com bust of 2001 and 2002 isn’t exactly shrouded in secrecy, as many of the companies that failed back then weren’t “real” companies. What’s the score on tech layoffs?

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

They are hard working individuals who have the potential to be leaders based on their knowledge, skills, and the behaviors and attitudes they display. They are eager to learn new skills and take on additional responsibilities and bigger challenges. Influencing skills. What skills and behaviors do they have?

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At the U.S.-Africa Summit, Leaders Need to Signal Change

Harvard Business Review

In the race for opportunity and influence in Africa, no competitor looms larger than China, which has increased its total trade with Africa twenty-fold since 2001. will not match, such as subsidized financing at scale and freedom from the pressure to show positive quarterly results. government does not. to overtake its competitors.

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business Review

Salvanes of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration reported that the productivity gap between firms had risen in the UK between 1984 and 2001, and that this phenomenon was linked to income inequality. “Back in the 1980s, college graduates and low-skilled people would be in every firm,” said Bloom.

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All Hail the Generalist

Harvard Business Review

In the six decades since Berlin's essay was published, hedgehogs have come to dominate academia, medicine, finance, law, and many other professional domains. A collection of specialists creates a less flexible labor force, one that requires "retraining" with technological developments creating constantly shifting human resource needs.

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