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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. 2: Disaggregate. 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 1: Define the problem.

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The Best Investment You'll Ever Make

Harvard Business Review

When I'd initially met him two years earlier, he'd seemed quite supportive of my career as a sell-side analyst. And regardless of whether what they desire is possible, when an employee shares with us a career goal or an innovative idea, their ambition itself should be honored. We each yearn for that kind of "yes.".

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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

A disaggregated laptop that is lighter and more versatile, since I can use the screen by itself as an e-reader and the keyboard with other devices. I recently bought an iPad. After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard. A week later I bought a case that puts the iPad in one half and the keyboard in the other.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work.