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First Look: Leadership Books for August 2019

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2019. Transforming Legacy Organizations provides real-world advice and research-based information on how to grow innovation by employing new technologies, improving processes, and establishing a culture of creativity and forward momentum.

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Building the next leadership pipeline with short-term executive programs in Top B-schools

HR Digest

Employees working for ten years or more have likely developed core skills in a specific discipline, and if they want to make the transition to the C-suite, they need to expand their knowledge. A finance expert who wants now to expand into marketing or customer dealings can choose from a myriad of short courses that deal in the same fields. .

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Stefan Ries on SAP’s Most Comprehensive Workforce Skills Upgrade

HR Digest

We needed to shift faster to public cloud and new technologies such as IoT, machine learning, SAP Cloud Platform and advanced analytics. Our technology has helped us tremendously in analyzing the skills of our workforce, provide learning offerings to employees globally, and get access to talent pools worldwide.

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, since the country’s independence in 1991, it has focused almost exclusively on entrepreneurship as a means to develop what has been described as the most digital state in the world. The scheme aims to ensure that entrepreneurial competencies are developed at all school levels. ” Broad horizons. . ” Broad horizons.

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Make Your Company Customer-Centric – and Increase Profitability by a Whopping 75 Percent

Strategy Driven

Technology has provided us with unprecedented advances, information, knowledge, instant access and entertainment. While there’s no denying that technology has amazing advantages to make it easier for the customer in most cases. It’s clear that developing a customer-obsessed organization extends well beyond your customer service team.

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‘Upskilling’ a top priority for the decade ahead

HR Digest

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. Participants of the network have a shared vision of a more equitable talent marketplace driven by emerging technologies and evolving data standards.

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The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy

HR Digest

An all-comprehensive financial literacy program requires an understanding of the financial skills required to perform the job responsibilities, identifying the skills gap, developing content to fill these gaps, and an outcome assessment to ensure that each participant has learned and can apply the knowledge obtained. First, share the numbers.

Finance 63