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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

As a consequence of accelerating change, the old model of managerial skill development and application is no longer effective. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. How did you develop it?

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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

MARC is focused on empowering male executives and leaders to model inclusive behavior, influence more equitable talent management systems and processes, and build effective partnerships across gender. One of the areas we’re focused on is expanding our pipeline of diverse talent through recruitment, development and promotion.

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The Truth About How Uber’s App Manages Drivers

Harvard Business Review

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. Customers act as managers.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

As business leaders and managers, we have become increasingly capable of engaging a workforce that is some combination of virtual and on site, part time and full time, permanent and contingent. The second area of opportunity with cognitive automation is for companies to develop new products and services.

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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

Significant investment also takes place in cockpit technology as well as in training and development (e.g., To answer these questions, we need to begin disaggregating work and understanding how automation and AI can differentially handle various aspects of work.

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Who Wins in the Gig Economy, and Who Loses

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated from jobs and reorganized into a variety of alternative arrangements, such as consulting projects, freelance assignments, and contract opportunities. All of that is changing. These skilled and entrepreneurial workers win in the gig economy by moving from good jobs to great work.

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The World Needs a DARPA-Style Project to Prevent Pandemics

Harvard Business Review

and governments around the world to develop an equivalent to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), that focuses cross-sector efforts on advancing biological and pandemic risk readiness. And it’s not as effective as it could be, because the money is allocated in a disaggregated manner. It’s not enough.