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Who’s Hiring (and Who Isn’t) in Five Charts

Harvard Business Review

To start, here’s how things have gone for the main broad job categories (and three smaller ones of interest: finance, construction, and information) since 1980: The most remarkable line in the chart is education and health services, which just keeps rising and rising, paying no mind whatsoever to the rest of the economy.

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The Making of an Innovation Master

Harvard Business Review

Michael Mauboussin doesn't write about innovation, but his clear writing that blends finance, strategy, and psychology puts him on my list. The duo (who are affiliated with Innosight) wrote a great book with Clayton Christensen last year called The Innovator's DNA. Some readers have asked why I put A.G. Braden Kelley.