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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. 90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR).

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Scan for the 3 key ingredients of trends to survive in the Expectation Economy

Strategy Driven

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. As the trend matures expectations for on-demand delivery of products and services across all categories heighten.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

At the company level, it is quite clear that digital maturity is synonymous with stronger economic growth and a higher level of well-being for employees. We found that the more digitally mature companies grew revenue at six times the rate of their less mature counterparts. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

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Stop the Fear-Mongering About Default

Harvard Business Review

Note, for fiscal 2013 the U.S. Maturing debt could be repaid by issuing new debt in the same amount — so this would not change the total debt outstanding and not affect the debt ceiling. Thus there should be no risk that debt won’t be paid upon maturity. Cutting costs Finance Government' trillion and spent about $3.5

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2013, a much-touted survey suggested that by 2020 — just over a year from now — a whopping 40% of the workforce would be so-called contingent workers, a number that would include contractors, temps and the self-employed. The size of the gig economy and how fast it’s growing also seem to be over-imagined at times.

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New MBAs Should Start Their Careers in Frontier Markets

Harvard Business Review

By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya. Instead of marching into the marble halls of finance or consulting, some might consider leaping out to the frontiers of business.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. However, we are likely at a key inflection point of AI adoption.

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