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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

In a recent McKinsey Global Survey on the future of workforce needs, nearly nine in ten executives and managers say their organizations either face skills gap already or expect gaps to develop within the next five years. Organizations are now facing a learning curve as managers scramble to lead their teams virtually.

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The Economic Impact of the Japanese Disasters

Harvard Business Review

Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains worldwide. at the market's close on Monday (3/14), erasing more than $300 billion of equity value, and lost another 10.6% for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5%

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The Question with AI Isn’t Whether We’ll Lose Our Jobs — It’s How Much We’ll Get Paid

Harvard Business Review

Automation anxiety is made more acute by a labor market that has tilted against workers over the last 30 years, with increasing income inequality and stagnant real wages. Automation of this sort includes self-driving cars and diagnosing disease. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI. Sponsored by SAS. in 2005 to 15.8%

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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

Harvard Business Review

We can’t expect managers to focus primarily on anything other than building a thriving, profitable enterprise. It has such a high share of the market that when there’s a problem with fake news it becomes, in large part, Facebook’s problem. As I tell my students, rule one is: Don’t crash the company.

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