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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business Review

A fast-moving startup can secure talent as it needs it, outsource more quotidian tasks like payroll, and stay lean and mean; indeed, I see entrepreneurs employ this approach through my work at EY supporting creative, successful startups. The size of the gig economy and how fast it’s growing also seem to be over-imagined at times.

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You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department

Harvard Business Review

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

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When Personal Tragedy Strikes, Downshifting at Work Doesn’t Always Help

Harvard Business Review

In Lean In , her 2013 manifesto about how women need to forge ahead professionally, Sandberg credited her husband, David Goldberg, for providing the support she needed to thrive professionally. What are the most important tools or techniques you used to integrate an intense, demanding career with sudden single parenthood?

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Get Your Passion Project Moving Without Quitting Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career. The biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is delaying the first step until they have settled on a destination. “The only reason I could even think about doing something like this is that early in my career was because I was living beneath my means,” she says.

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What CEOs Have Learned About Social Media

Harvard Business Review

For example, even in 2013, Scottish fashion brand Lyle & Scott put out a call for a new CEO on Twitter. — Lyle & Scott (@Lyle_and_Scott) August 29, 2013. Outsourcing sociability might save time but employees can sniff out inauthenticity in a nanosecond. Companies don’t want to be left behind. NextGreatLeader.

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Law Firms’ Grueling Hours Are Turning Defectors into Competitors

Harvard Business Review

Counsel on Call was worth nearly $50 million as of 2013 , with over 900 lawyers; it serves one-third of the Fortune 100. The behemoth of “legal process outsourcing” is Axiom, which has commodified large companies’ contracting and certain litigation functions.