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Executive Talent Trends: Navigating a Changing Landscape in 2024

N2Growth Blog

Talent Trends: Emerging Leadership Skills for the Future The continual development of digital technology and automation in today’s corporate world demands a new paradigm in leadership. Rapid technological advancements have catalyzed a shift towards remote and/or hybrid working environments.

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Why Everyone's Working So Hard

Marshall Goldsmith

While IBM would always fire employees for ethical violations, almost no one was fired because of poor performance. Overall, the professional work ethic has increased in a world where the value of performing can bring greater rewards, while the cost of nonperformance can bring severe and immediate punishment.

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The Threat of Workplace Automation in Future

HR Digest

John Maynard Keynes warned in 1930 “about the new scourge of technological unemployment”, which he termed as “unemployment due to our discovery of means of economizing the use of labor outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labor.” In short, out jobbing ourselves. So how might we deal with this version of the future? .

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10 Steps to Creating a Talent Advantage

N2Growth Blog

You may have technology or a product that gives you an edge, but your people determine whether you develop the next winning technology or product.&#. Outsourced recruiting is very effective and affordable if managed properly. People, their traits, attitudes, and work ethic (or lack thereof) are contagions.

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The Bittersweet Departure of Top Talent: Reasons Why Good Employees Get Fired

HR Digest

The reasons why good employees get fired can vary from performance issues to ethical violations. Good employees who are resistant to change or lack the ability to adapt to new technologies, processes, or systems can become obsolete. What are the reasons why good employees get fired?

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It’s OK to Move Down (Yes, Down) the Value Chain

Harvard Business Review

defend against “attack from beneath” and maintain your reputation for ethical operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. By the late 20 th century most retailers designed the clothes that they sold and outsourced their manufacture to others’ factories in low-cost parts of the world.

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The “Business in Society” Imperative for CEOs

Harvard Business Review

On the one hand, protectionism, populism, and wide-spread distrust of business’s role in politics is threatening international corporations (think Carrier, Boeing, and tariffs/taxes for off-shoring and outsourcing). Similarly, whether the Brexit vote last June will help or hurt businesses in the UK and EU is still uncertain.

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