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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

Although the recession ended in 2009, here we are five years later and unemployment for Generation Y (1982-1995) remains near its cyclical peak across the world. The largest, best-educated generation in history has become an under-utilized resource, vastly unprepared to move into positions of responsibility and leadership.

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The Big Picture of Business- Anniversaries Honor the Past and Build Support for the Future

Strategy Driven

In 2007, I was advising the credit union industry of America, reminding them that their upcoming 100th anniversary in 2009 would provide outreach opportunities for chapter members around the country. These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2015: The Galleria, 45th. Technology is but one tool of the trade.

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Smart Business is Business Redefined

Leading Blog

In 2009 it was reimagined as an online shopping festival. At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. Singles Day is a technological marvel. In 2015, she prepared to sell a batch of 15 new clothing items at 3:00 p.m. billion dollars. Before 9:30 a.m.,

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

It all starts, as the stories below show, with purpose-driven leadership: a determination to provide high-quality, ultra-affordable health care to all, regardless of ability to pay: Saving Eyesight at a Fraction of the Cost. Competitors used the expensive CCD technology for cameras. His life was set.

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Why the Automation Boom Could Be Followed by a Bust

Harvard Business Review

Faced with labor shortages, companies will accelerate their investment in automation technologies. An $8 trillion investment boom would result in average annual US growth of about 3% and roughly 60% more economic output in 2030 than in 2015. The coming decade will test leadership teams profoundly. times higher than today.

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Lots of Employees Get Misclassified as Contractors. Here’s Why It Matters

Harvard Business Review

All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S. According to a 2009 report issued by the United States Government Accountability Office, a significant portion of independent contracting doesn’t pass the smell test and in fact represents misclassification of workers.