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Creating a Learning Organization: Fostering Continuous Improvement and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report found that highly engaged teams show 21% greater profitability. Organizations implementing Lean may achieve up to a 40% boost in efficiency, per the Lean Enterprise Institute. Fostering a Growth Mindset: Promote a mindset where challenges are seen as opportunities for learning.

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Automation, COVID, And The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market. Feeling vulnerable.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. No wonder employees like them. trillion euros.

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Research: Technology Is Only Making Social Skills More Important

Harvard Business Review

Osborne, researchers at the Oxford Martin School, published a paper estimating that 47% of all U.S. And something that’s become more important in the modern workplace is being able to play off a team member’s strengths and adapt to changing circumstances. those with high IQ are better able to collaborate on teams).

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“Government Entrepreneur” is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

But now consider the following list of terms: “acknowledgement of multiple constituencies,” “risk reduction,” “formal planning,” “coordination,” “efficiency measures,” “clearly defined responsibility,” and “organizational culture.”