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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

I studied indigenous Amazonian languages and Ethnobotany in college and managed to avoid taking any math, science or business courses (yes, I went to Brown University). My business partner, Dan MacCombie, studied Marine Biology, so he was equally inexperienced in the art of management (unless we decided to employ invertebrates).

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Older Workers Are Just As Keen On Learning As Younger Workers

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, a few years ago, research from VU University Amsterdam showed that we tend to have an unconscious bias towards viewing innovation and creativity as a young person’s game. Their influence in helping to retail, develop and engage more junior employees.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. At WD-40 Company, we include values as part of our talent management system. And introductions to their friends.

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You Can’t Hire Your Way to the Future. Instead, Leave No One Behind. - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PWC

Harvard Business Review

That’s why it’s imperative to step up and build the capability to innovate and be agile across the entire enterprise. From accountants to retail analysts to supply chain experts, functional specialists will need to know how to prepare and contextualize data. It’s nerve-wracking, frightening, anxiety-inducing.

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The Future of Marketing, as Seen at Cannes Lions

Harvard Business Review

Quirky is disrupting incumbents in consumer product design and innovation, Local Motors in the automobile business, Relay Rides in car rentals and Kickstarter and AngelList in the financial sector. Likewise, internal team members have some of the best creative ideas but are sometimes afraid to participate. What Makes a CMO Powerful.