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Are We Really Prepared for a More Automated Future?

Lead Change Blog

education system for focusing on teaching skills that will effectively be automated in the future. I’ve now come to realize, however, that reinvention skills need to be taught at all ages. by Jeff Selingo. Selingo’s piece criticizes – in my opinion rightly so – the U.S. Because of its resistance to change, of course.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills. The campaign predicted which voters would be positively persuaded by campaign contact, and which would be inadvertently influenced to vote adversely. Target predicts customer pregnancy in order to market relevant products accordingly.

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Employee Growth: How to Better Support Team Member Development

Let's Grow Leaders

When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur. The first decade of my career (and all my formal education) was about leadership development and communication. The S Curve of Employee Growth. AND HE WROTE BACK.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. Innovative leaders excel at a skill we call “forward thinking.” Career Benefits of Entrepreneurial Activity for Individuals in Paid Employment: An Application of Signaling Theory.”

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Four New Tools for Brain Workouts

Harvard Business Review

Take-away: This provides a targeted way to improve a weakness that's bothered you throughout your career, such as poor recall of facts in a meeting, or an inability to remember faces that would help improve your networking skills. You work on your business skills, but you need some time in the mental weight room, too.

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Access to Digital Technology Accelerates Global Gender Equality

Harvard Business Review

Accenture surveyed nearly 5,000 men and women in 31 countries, exploring their use of technology, including access to devices like smartphones and wireless wearable devices, and the frequency with which they use them. Corporate apprenticeships and training outreach programs can increase the skills of young people.

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How Cisco Is Helping Tweens Become Tech-Savvy Global Problem Solvers - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CISCO

Harvard Business Review

Now we are taking this experience to younger learners with Global Problem Solvers: The Series (GPS: The Series) , a new animated web series for kids exploring entrepreneurship, life skills, and how to use technology for social good. Exposing and engaging students early is one of the best chances we have, and it benefits everybody.