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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. 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. Encouraging the impulse to do or become more is critical to keeping employees engaged, happy and productive, especially when they've earned the right to aim higher. We each yearn for that kind of "yes.".

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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.