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Do We Still Thirst For Knowledge As We Age?

The Horizons Tracker

Perhaps the most pernicious aspect of this ageism revolves around the notion that older people are less innovative and less able to learn new skills, especially surrounding new technologies. And these may result in reward-driven learning in some and cost-driven learning in others.” Lifelong learning.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. Gioia supported Ford’s decision at the time, based on a plausible cost-benefit analysis. Yet we rely equally on social infrastructure.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. As a person that works with CEOs and entrepreneurs on a daily basis I can tell you with great certainty that all leaders are not created equal when it comes to the competency of their decisioning skills. What would your family think of your decision?

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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A Better Metric for the Value of a Worker Training Program

Harvard Business Review

Yet workplace training is more necessary than ever, as technology and globalization continue to change the types of jobs that are available. In a dynamic economy workers are expected to adapt, to change not just jobs but sometimes careers, to pick up new skills when necessary. And most programs have no positive effect at all.

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