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Independent Work May Be Inevitable

Harvard Business Review

I never intended to disrupt my career over and again, eventually becoming a free agent. When my husband was on the hunt for an academic job after completing his PhD, his choices were Boston and San Antonio, both of which had the potential to cut my Wall Street career short. Stripping out the c. I'm finding that to be the case for me.

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Your Company Needs Independent Workers

Harvard Business Review

It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. Attracting, retaining, and managing these highly skilled workers will require new ways of thinking about talent management and the role that external talent plays. The MBO Partners 2015 State of Independence workforce study found that 6.4

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Eliminate MBO.

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