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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ). Best Leadership Books of 2014.

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Will The Future Of Work Require More Investment In Technology, Not Less?

The Horizons Tracker

Technology has helped to create a polarized workforce, with the high-skilled professionals disproportionately helped by new technologies that have squeezed lower skilled workers. Yet inequality remains, and the researchers argue that the economy has saved to such an extent that investment in innovation has been strangled.

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10 Excel Functions Everyone Should Know

Harvard Business Review

The past 10 years have seen a wave of innovative big data software designed to analyze, manipulate, and visualize data. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. If, like many, you’re stuck on what to learn next in Excel, you might want to look at this 2×2 matrix , which factors in usefulness and time needed to learn a skill.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks. In a study conducted with Google Europe , Roland Berger assessed the digital maturity of French companies, looking into three distinct dimensions: equipment, practices and uses, and organization and skills.

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Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce, and World

Harvard Business Review

The prosperity of nations and the health of economies is linked to the educational attainment levels and size of a skilled workforce. For businesses, the danger of underinvesting in skills can be great. This was a major theme at the Global Education & Skills Forum last week in Dubai. higher productivity rates and 1.5%

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It’s Not HR’s Job to Be Strategic

Harvard Business Review

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.