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The Precarious Nature Of Youth Employment

The Horizons Tracker

Since the 2008 financial crisis created ructions in the labor market, there has been prolonged focus on the nature of work. As the labor market has proved resilient in terms of people generally having work, the concern shifted to the kind of work people had, with worries that much of the new work was precarious in nature.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have only raised my voice in the workplace twice during my career and both times I have regretted it tremendously. Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design.

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My Personal Coach

Coaching Tip

Vocalists, he pointed out, employ voice coaches throughout their careers. Self-improvement has always found a ready market; it's teaching with a trendier name. They parcel out their observations carefully. He didn’t know if other instrumentalists relied on coaching, but he suspected that many find help like he did.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. At the storage and software company EMC Corp.,

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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

Unlike for a Procter & Gamble or Unilever, Morey muses, there is no "aging curve" for marketing prowess: "We can't say that, after 50, this guy won't have another good marketing idea again.". Bill Parcells, the Super Bowl-winning coach, was famous for saying , "You are what your record says you are." But why not?

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Make you more innovative. Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role. Teach you new things.

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