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Mind the (Skills) Gap

Harvard Business Review

A bachelor's degree used to provide enough basic training to last a career. And it's not only white-collar, college-driven careers that will suffer rapid skills obsolescence. Fortunately, new technologies and services deliver education flexibly, giving America new opportunities with "Education 2.0." The key takeaway?

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Don’t Let Your Career Cause Regrets in Your Personal Life

Harvard Business Review

What I would offer, instead, are some ways to think about the problem, some guiding principles to keep in mind over the long haul of a career: Be realistic about work. At Quest Diagnostics, we turned things around, in part, by adopting Six Sigma, which aims at a standard of perfection. Expect to fall short some of the time.

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