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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. LinkedIn’s 2018 Workforce Report found that the four most in-demand soft skills are within leadership, communication, collaboration, and time management.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group. Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever.

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Consider three aspects: Reinvestment: In emerging markets, women reinvest a staggering 90 cents of every additional dollar of income in "human resources" — their families'' education, health, nutrition (compared, by the way, to 30-40% for men. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

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Best Paid Jobs of 2019 | Glassdoor

HR Digest

The best paid jobs of 2019 are in healthcare, information technology, data analytics, finance, engineering, and law ( see infographic below ). Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare employment is projected to grow 14% from 2018 to 2028—adding about 1.9 They find the salary median for finance professionals lower than in actual fact.

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Make the Most of Scarce Data-Mining Talent

Harvard Business Review

By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of as many as 190,000 people with deep analytical skills according to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute. The Talent Gap in Big Data. The study also found a looming need for over 1.5 million managers and analysts who understand big data and how to apply it to business operations.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. Like any industry, the medical cannabis sector needs everything from lawyers and accountants to human resources professionals, insurance specialists, and consultants.

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HRM 101: The Role and Responsibilities of a Manager

HR Digest

Human resource manager roles and responsibilities include overseeing an organization’s payroll system and hiring practices and its staffing levels and employee training programs. For example, a general manager’s duties at a factory include overseeing production schedules, labor costs, and employee wages.