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Candidate Management During a Crisis

N2Growth Blog

Most companies have decentralized their teams due to social distancing, measures directed by state and federal governments to keep people home and prevent further spread of the disease. Social psychologist, Philip Zimbardo said, “Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.”

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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

Strategic agility enables entire enterprises to detect and assess major trends and environmental changes and dynamically adapt their vision, business models, human capital and strategy to the new reality. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis.

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Speed Of Learning As The New Competitive Advantage

The Horizons Tracker

Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends report shows how far many organizations still have to go. This is likely to require decentralizing the structure of our organizations, with smaller teams given greater autonomy to act, experiment and learn. “The concept of superjobs takes this shift one step further.

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business Review

Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches. Invest in human capital. The New Science of Human Capital. Yet such ecosystems are not just the purview of web companies. “How GE Is Disrupting Itself” 4. Related Video.

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How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands

Harvard Business Review

As has been the case elsewhere in Asia, companies in China traditionally focused on asset-intensive industries and low-cost manufacturing and paid little attention to intangibles such as brands and human capital. Only a small minority thought low-cost operations would be an advantage in three years’ time. An HBR Insight Center.

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