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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

There’s a lot to admire, in our opinion, like the way he shook up the Vatican Bank. Fortunately, she spots a rickety old raft on the bank, off in the brush. We try to help leaders make a very rational cost/benefit analysis about what clinging to the raft is costing them. It seems there’s no way to cross.

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The Skills Gap That's Slowing Down Your Career

Harvard Business Review

Career speed bumps (much like their counterparts in the road ) can take you by surprise. Take not having the right credentials, one common career speed bump. It's easy to ignore if you are speeding along in your career with the same employer, but suddenly losing your job can send you careening out of control.

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A Better Metric for the Value of a Worker Training Program

Harvard Business Review

But according to the World Bank , only 30% of youth employment programs are successful, with many of those offering only marginal benefit. In a dynamic economy workers are expected to adapt, to change not just jobs but sometimes careers, to pick up new skills when necessary. And most programs have no positive effect at all.

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