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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

That’s one reason I was interested to talk with Leo Tilman and General Charles Jacoby, who co-wrote a new book, Agility: How to Navigate the Unknown and Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption. It is through that shared understanding, training, and practice that the agility mindset is created. Noble words must become flesh.”

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Best New Leadership Books Of 2022

Eric Jacobson

It was a tough choice, so for 2022, I'm picking two books: Both books are timely, highly relevant, full of great teachings and well worth reading for leaders at any stage of their careers. Perhaps their gift could be put to better use helping the machine learning team train the algorithm which would be much more valuable to the company.

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How to Build Great Data Products

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, data scientists and engineers have a keen eye for identifying feasible data-powered solutions and a strong intuition on what can be scaled and how. Product managers, user researchers, and business leaders traditionally have the strong intuition and domain expertise to identify key unsolved user and business needs.

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3 Ways to Take Action in the Face of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

. “There has to be an appropriate culture of freedom to fail,” Petraeus advises, “as long as failure (as well as success) is followed by a very careful after-action review, to understand what transpired, why it happened, and then how to reduce the chances of it happening in the future.”

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‘Upskilling’ a top priority for the decade ahead

HR Digest

Expert Q&A with Jason Tyszko on how to raise the skills of your employees to meet upcoming automation challenges. . Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the biggest challenges employers and HR faced in 2019 is helping people adjust to AI, robotics, and other forms of automation through retraining and career changes.

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business Review

While we can disagree about how to fix the problem, we must acknowledge that globalization is a hard sell if it doesn’t address these distributive issues. Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches. The same goes for technology.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business Review

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. The fallout was dramatic: the Secretary of Veterans Affairs resigned and the FBI initiated a criminal investigation.