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The Precarious Nature Of Youth Employment

The Horizons Tracker

A recent report from the innovation group Nesta suggests that there are six million people in the UK who are in such a precarious position, and they caution that without assistance, these people will be stuck in a cycle of either low-pay and insecure employment or forced out of the workforce entirely. A helpless situation. Treading water.

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Psychology of Time – The Impact on Your Orientation

CO2

Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pink Demos Dr. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Economies of Unscale: Why Business Has Never Been Easier for the Little Guy

Harvard Business Review

And the prescribed solution — education — is becoming increasingly unaffordable for most Americans. These two changes alone allow a lone innovator in Austin to build a world class product in China and ship it to Berlin — and that’s a revolution for someone with a good idea. Innovation Technology' But the tide is about to turn.

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. The severances team aimed to increase the number of land parcels processed per day by 50% in one field office in 100 days. The severances team increased parcels processed per day by 175%.

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Explain Your New Strategy By Emphasizing What It Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

” As educational researchers have found, it is perhaps the single best way to teach new concepts. You have suddenly clarified that even though your team or organization absolutely values innovation, this year’s strategy is actually focused more on innovating the core product lines rather than the new products.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

and China take the lead in tech innovation. ” According to Der Standard , an Austrian newspaper , mailing a parcel from Munich to Salzburg (distance: 145km; 90 miles) costs many times more than mailing it from Munich to Berlin (distance: 585km; 364 miles). Investing in innovation capacity.

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