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Stereotypes Can Force Older Workers Into Retirement

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers conducted an ethnographic study at eight small and medium-sized companies within Denmark’s finance and production sectors, involving 92 interviews with senior staff, managers, union representatives, and HR personnel.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design. I Think Not.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Thanks for commenting. I Think Not.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

But the emerging challenge of reducing risk exposure for coastal residents creates new opportunities for firms that can innovate and provide new solutions. But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk. Where Would You Rather Live?

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. The innovation portfolio. This is a collection of budgets to fund both the projects in the innovation portfolio and the new initiatives for the core business.

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Workforce Analytics Isn't as Scary as It Sounds

Harvard Business Review

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? So early on, Finance and HR collaborated to simplify the process, reducing the number of data metrics. Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times. A man who is.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

and China take the lead in tech innovation. And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Investing in innovation capacity. billion).

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