HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

An early champion of the Men Advocating Real Change (MARC) gender inclusion program, Chevron recognizes the true power it can have to build self-awareness, foster individual inclusion skills, and sustain a culture of inclusion across the organization. Efforts to bring more diversity to the oil and gas industry are working.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. Cloud Computing. hours a day.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Equally, they grasp that if they fail to perceive when good luck helped, they might overestimate their own skill and leave themselves exposed when good luck runs dry. This is a very timely, inspiring, and practical book for leading in turbulent times. 10Xers grasp that if they blame bad luck for failure, they capitulate to fate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

They found that 95% of those occupations became more digital between 2002 and 2016, meaning that computers became a more important part of the job. The researchers combined several measures of an occupation’s use of digital technology into a digital score, ranging from zero (least digital) to 100 (most digital).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it. Because our observation period was from the 1970s to 2002, we do not claim that these companies will continue to outperform in perpetuity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

A recent paper from UCSB found that the return on being good at math has gone up over the last few decades, as has the return on having high social skills (some combination of leadership, communication, and other interpersonal skills). But, the paper argues, the return on the two skills together has risen even faster.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The story of how technological progress is affecting employment — whether, in other words, the robots are eating our jobs — is clearly an important one. I believe that technological unemployment (and underemployment) is a real and growing phenomenon. But who's telling it correctly?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. Getting an edge requires special skills—and sufficient attention. Analytics alone can't carry the day.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. As we discuss in our recent HBR article, “ Dismantling the Sales Machine ,” they rely on collective, even crowd-sourced, skills in ways that weren’t possible just a few short years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It would be unrealistic to imagine a return to low-value-add, low-skill, low-wage production in the commodity industries that employed millions of Americans a century ago. But it's clear that we can't grow high-skill, high-wage employment by sharing personal information on Facebook and playing online games. Building up the U.S.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

An honest self-evaluation will tell you where you have to increase your emotional and interactive skills. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). Morey, Daryl; Maybury, Mark; Thuraisingham, Bhavani (2002). Beyond your own comportment, much can be done to induce virtuous behaviors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas of the Washington Post write , "In particular, [labor force entry has] suffered among women — and it''s really suffered among young women — who are a lot less likely to enter the labor force than they were in 2002 and 2003.". The question is: why?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. In fact, we think Cisco is one of the all-time best at this corporate skill. It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. Fostered global teamwork.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Training and development programs almost universally focus factory-like on inputs and outputs — absorb curriculum, check a box; learn a skill, advance a rung; submit to assessment, fix a problem. These are skills and qualities you have to cultivate and practice.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

One: In the long term, soft skills such as mentoring, inspiring, and “selling” (of concepts and goals) would be much more effective than combat drills. Another: Afghan soldiers needed to learn how to be confident in their skills — and that couldn''t happen with tons of advisers looking over their shoulders. Crisis management'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% New philanthropists are using their capital in very specific ways to implement their plans; in a similar way they did in the world of technology or business. growth in GDP. In some ways, they resemble Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. In 1999, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. Craft unions and other skilled labor organizations also seem destined to bring badging to their memberships. Individual empowerment.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

They do what the client requires of them where qualified, and if they don’t possess the needed skill sets, competencies and experience they should not take the assignment. This suggests a more significant contributor to a successful coaching outcome is a person's state of mind rather than the qualifications and skills of the coach.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

“You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology — it’s not only a great tool for democratization, but it’s a great tool for eliminating prejudice.” pm images/Getty Images. of employment in those occupations in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

While all of those perspectives are relevant, the most revealing aspect of GM’s announcement may well be what the layoffs say about broader technology trends. The mean digitalization score of workers in the advanced manufacturing sector, of which auto is a part, surged 60%, from 24 to 39 since 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nationally, from 2002 to 2012, just 4 percent of U.S. The different skills and viewpoints of a diverse workforce enhance those capabilities. Technology They Can Grow Into. To thrive, gazelles require technology that scales quickly and adapts rapidly to innovations and disruptions. companies generated 10.7

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work. As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?

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QAspire

MARCH 10, 2015

Let me share a story of my friend who was laid off in the 2002 dot com bust. He worked on a technology that was on its way to obscurity. My friend took up the challenge to retool himself on this new technology in one month with a condition that if he failed at client interview, he will walk out voluntarily.

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