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An Interview with Diane Gherson, CHRO at IBM, on Driving Organizational Transformation

HR Digest

This has made the company more efficient in dealing with talent issues, matching employees and career opportunities and proactively retaining its most valued skills. Leadership skills, confidence and the courage to pursue the unconventional, are the traits that brought her the HR Executive of the Year Award-2018.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Being a founder has a profound impact on your career because it provides a relevant, observable, and hard to imitate signal (the three characteristics of strong reputation signals) of your leadership capabilities. Career Benefits of Entrepreneurial Activity for Individuals in Paid Employment: An Application of Signaling Theory.”

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Is 8 Hours Of Work Per Week Ideal For Our Health And Wellbeing?

The Horizons Tracker

Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. In total, over 70,000 UK residents were examined between 2009 and 2018, and there was a clear correlation between working and improved mental health.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Gather Ye Sugar Plums While Ye May; Your Personal Discretionary Budget will be Impacted by Washington

Strategy Driven

But, if you have unlimited, pre-tax flexible spending accounts for medical expenses, anything over $2,500 will be taxed starting in 2013. And starting in 2018, for employers that retain ‘Cadillac’ premium health plans, you will be taxed 40 percent for the privilege. There will be a 2.3% There will be a 2.3%

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the percentage of millennials with full-time careers is rising at a brisk clip from 45% in 2016 to 66% in 2018, according to the data we collected. In our 2018 EY Growth Barometer, an annual global survey of middle market company leaders, we found some movement away from part-time and gig hiring. 3: Gig is better.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

But here’s what is most surprising to many about the marijuana industry: It’s filled with straight-laced people who built careers – and started successful companies – in other fields. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. And I still do now.