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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

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. As a consequence of accelerating change, the old model of managerial skill development and application is no longer effective. 3: Prioritize.

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The Best Investment You'll Ever Make

Harvard Business Review

With nervous, but mostly eager, anticipation I walked up to the C-suite floor to meet with a senior manager at Merrill Lynch. When I'd initially met him two years earlier, he'd seemed quite supportive of my career as a sell-side analyst. I hoped he would offer to sponsor me on my five-to-ten year quest. He may have been right.

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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

This is the reason airlines invest in elongated career paths for pilots. To answer these questions, we need to begin disaggregating work and understanding how automation and AI can differentially handle various aspects of work. Disaggregate the different parts of the curve shown in the chart above and determine how AI can play a role.

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Who Wins in the Gig Economy, and Who Loses

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated from jobs and reorganized into a variety of alternative arrangements, such as consulting projects, freelance assignments, and contract opportunities. All of that is changing. Entrepreneurial workers also win. The gig economy rewards hustle.

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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. Boeing refers to its global "value webs," an approach that turns managers into systems integrators. I recently bought an iPad. After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard.

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Why I Tell My MBA Students to Stop Looking for a Job and Join the Gig Economy

Harvard Business Review

When the students in the MBA course I teach on the gig economy ask me for the best thing they can do to prepare for their future careers, I tell them: “Stop looking for a job.” Instead of creating jobs, companies are increasingly disaggregating work from a job. ” This may sound like odd advice to give MBA students.

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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. How talent management is changing. Insight Center.