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The Best Leadership Books of 2020

Leading Blog

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. In this book, Kanter shows how people everywhere can unleash their creativity and entrepreneurial adroitness to mobilize partners across challenging cultural, social, and political situations and innovate for a brighter future.

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Grassroots Leadership by the Rising Middle Class

Coaching Tip

The business world has been buzzing about the rising "global middle class" for at least a decade. A 2012 report by the European Union Institute for Security Studies, using a broader definition of middle class, predicted that the number of people in that category would grow from 1.8 The global middle class awakens.

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How Automation Affects Our Views On Immigration

The Horizons Tracker

This relationship appeared to be consistent across the 30 years studied, and endured even across various political ideologies and perceptions of other job-related threats, such as offshoring and the decline in trade unions. Politics and automation. The findings also hint at some of the political sources of fear of automation.

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Statesman vs. Politician | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While the term political leadership may have become an oxymoron, it is simply impossible to be a statesman and not be a leader… It has been said that a politician is concerned with winning an election, and a statesman is concerned with future generations. Thanks again for this historical perspective. Now we're over 300 million.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design. You are absolutely correct that design influences perception, and perception impacts brand.

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Are Women At Risk Of Automation In The Workplace?

The Horizons Tracker

Of course any such report inevitably includes a large dose of generalization, as automation is likely to apply differently in different industries, and indeed other reports have examined the potential impact of automation in different regions, skill levels and even classes. ” Skills gap. . ” Skills gap. Risk of automation.

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Leaders: Born or Made? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They were your class presidents, team captains, club leaders, and the people who held virtually all the available leadership positions you can imagine early in life. They were those unflappable individuals that seemed to just have that “it&# factor. [.]

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