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Why Every 21st Century Sales Leader Needs to Be a Creative Problem Solver

Great Leadership By Dan

Beyond solving strategic business or sales problems, how can we build our creative problem-solving capabilities to become more competitive in our careers and industries? As I’m fond of saying, “You can’t offshore, automate, or AI creativity.” That’s why I’m on a mission to share this skillset with sales executives.

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Why Immigration Is So Important In The Global Race For Talent

The Horizons Tracker

The importance of foreign talent to a country’s innovative capabilities was underlined by a recent letter signed by 40 heads of business schools from across the United States, which makes the case for a more liberal immigration policy that allows greater mobility of talent. “We do not believe the U.S. ” Early warning. .”

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How Technology Has Affected Wages for the Last 200 Years

Harvard Business Review

But without a robust labor market, textile workers could not look forward to a long career at different workplaces and so they had little reason to invest in learning. Now, however, automation and offshoring have eliminated many of those jobs for weavers and steelworkers and typographers; many of the old skills are obsolete.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Job Creation: Focus on Programs, Not Politics

Harvard Business Review

Forty percent of respondents to a Kauffman Foundation entrepreneur survey cited the lack of qualified workers as "the biggest obstacle standing in the way of continued growth." These are not jobs that can be offshored — they must be filled right here. And numbers from Deloitte indicate that U.S. While the U.S.