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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

With an increase in Japan’s female employment rate, the country’s workforce would expand by more than eight million people—and its GDP would grow by as much as 13 percent.* About Development Dimensions International (DDI) DDI is a global human resources consultancy specializing in leadership assessment and development.

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Globalization Is Becoming More About Data and Less About Stuff

Harvard Business Review

Today growth in global trade has flattened, and it looks unlikely to regain its previous peak relative to world GDP anytime soon. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 The same is true for cross-border financial flows.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

.” There is a virtuous cycle between productivity and people: Higher levels of productivity allow society to reinvest in human capital (most obviously, though not exclusively, via higher wages), and smart investments result in higher labor productivity. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.