Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

At the same time, employees are just as stressed about the growing skills gap, Accenture research shows, and most of them are unclear about which skills they need to advance their careers. As a result, they tend to focus narrowly on technology skills, the Accenture survey reports. There's a lot at stake here.

Skills 14

Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

Executive Coaching 129

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. He wrote a short document titled Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager and used it to train his team on his basic expectations.

Skills 14

Skills Morale Ethics System 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

To better understand this problem, my consulting firm did a thorough review of recent research into learning and development programs, followed by a structured survey with top training executives at 16 major corporations in a diverse set of industries, ranging in size from $1 billion to $55 billion in annual revenues.

Development 8

Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

That's why at ManpowerGroup we believe that investment ought to focus on youth, who are now entering the market and who most need training. Still, while I cannot overstate the importance of training, it alone will not solve the labor market's structural dysfunction. How can the U.S. labor market become more efficient?

Marketing 12

Marketing Restructuring McKinsey Education 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” He further stresses that a “professional does not merely work; he/she has to be educated and trained, (socialized) as member of an occupational domain, supervised by his/her peers and held accountable.” To this end, teachers’ work has subsequently been the subject of major restructuring over the past three decades.

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Dave didn’t advocate any particular design model, just one the leader knows how to employ and one flexible enough to be applied to the range of organizational situations a leader faces in the course of a career. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. When we began our research, we expected to hear a lot about organizational design. The most important capabilities systems do not fall neatly into groupings designed many decades ago.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. Sometimes they aren’t happy calls – and that’s when it gets really hard.

Open-book 272

Open-book Greenleaf Blog Marketing 272

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

The answer turns out to be far more nuanced than mere wealth accumulation and career advancement. He offered an example: “I recently recruited a VP Sales and Marketing from a well-known consumer technology company to be the president and COO of a small but fast-growing smart-grid consumer technology-products company.

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Reputation Consultative P&L Execution 12