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It’s the Company’s Job to Help Employees Learn

Harvard Business Review

When Frederick Taylor published his pioneering principles of scientific management in 1912, the repetitive and mundane nature of most jobs required employees to think as little as possible. Even simpler habits, such as writing a blog, sharing articles on social media, or recommending books and movies, can be rewarded.

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Business Does Not Need the Humanities — But Humans Do

Harvard Business Review

Many a tech titan, critics contend, would have been helped by an extra humanities class, say, or social science course : those staples of liberal arts education meant to prepare future leaders to wrestle with the dilemmas and complexities of human lives and societies. ” Soon after, Peter Drucker predicted the End of Economic Man.

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