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6 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

Career Advancement

By developing the right mix of skills, you’ll have the confidence and assertiveness to thrive in a changing organizational environment. Study a particular subfield within your area of knowledge in order to develop specialized knowledge that will make you highly marketable in that realm. Six Essential Skills for Future Leaders.

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6 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

Career Advancement

By developing the right mix of skills, you’ll have the confidence and assertiveness to thrive in a changing organizational environment. Study a particular subfield within your area of knowledge in order to develop specialized knowledge that will make you highly marketable in that realm. Six Essential Skills for Future Leaders.

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Stefan Ries on SAP’s Most Comprehensive Workforce Skills Upgrade

HR Digest

While we were restructuring our services business, we made significant investments in training to help our employees make this skills transition and to introduce a learning culture, as learning is a lifelong journey. At SAP, we develop, sell and run people software solutions that help us do so.

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3 Ways to Motivate Employees During Times of Change :: Women on.

Women on Business

Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. Training and Professional Development If there are new systems in place, or even old systems that could be more efficient, take the time to train the staff.

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise.

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

They are finding creative — and in many cases disruptive — ways to tackle some of society's toughest problems and create long-term value for their companies as well. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

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What SpaceX Can Teach Us About Cost Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Their process — having a big goal, learning from the past, looking at the whole picture to find and prioritize opportunities, then refining key aspects of the space flight model to achieve their objective — is an approach that can make any organization more creative about cutting costs. They think big. They think about the future.

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