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Many Employees Have a Mid-Career Crisis. Here’s How Employers Can Help

Harvard Business Review

Plenty of media coverage — and companies’ attention — is devoted to employees at the beginning and end of their careers, at least in my experience. What about the wide swath of employees who are in the middle of their careers? For many managers, the problem is seeing those employees through to the other side.

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. When functional boundaries prevail, there is no construct for managing capabilities.

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Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over CEO Pay Ratios

Harvard Business Review

A CEO wishing to improve the ratio may outsource low-paid jobs, hire more part-time than full-time workers, or invest in automation rather than labor. A snapshot measure of a worker’s current pay is a poor substitute for their career pay within the firm. Large-scale studies in both the U.S.

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