HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The lessons in the film about talent and ageism are quite real. To put it bluntly, we still live in a world where you’ll face hurdles if you’re looking to start a new career or reboot an old one. So what all is needed to make a career switch at 50? Before you change careers after 50, read this.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Quitting your job is not something most employees would consider doing in light of today’s weak job market. So what can leaders and their organizations do to counter the growing levels of stress, frustration and resentment found in their workplaces?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Employees need to constantly write six-page memos, even for introducing small product features throughout their careers at the company. You can see this at work at Pixar, which was originally a technology company that began shooting short films to demonstrate the capabilities of its original product, animation software.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio. As an ex-ad man and a lifelong aficionado of great creative, whether it is art or copy, I could not resist the urge to check it out. I’m glad I did. Booze mostly.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Nothing about free fall is easy.

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