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How to Win with AI and Automation

HR Digest

Spending on worker transition has also continued to shrink as a percentage of GDP. Retraining workers across all generations for the coming difficulties will be a goal. Across the OECD, spending on worker training and development has been declining over the last twenty years.

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Review of “The Happiness Advantage” by Shawn Achor

The Practical Leader

And the movement to measure national well-being on factors other than GDP could be game changing: As we know, what gets measured gets managed. The Zorro Circle – regain emotional control when overwhelmed by challenges by focusing on small manageable goals and gradually expanding our circle.

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Leading Job Growth in the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. With the right leadership, I think so. So what are we to do? Can other countries follow this model?

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The Three Reforms China Must Enact: Land, Social Services, and Taxes

Harvard Business Review

China’s global economic power continues to grow, yet the decision-making dynamics of its top leadership remain a mystery. This complicates the ability of outsiders to understand the purpose for and implications of policy changes. What Needs to Change.

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What Africa’s Leaders Have Learned About Facing Huge Challenges

Harvard Business Review

There is a sea change going on in African leadership. Since 2000, for example, Rwanda has racked up average annual GDP growth in excess of 8%—exceeding 12% during some quarters of the Great Recession. Great leadership rarely is. ” Leadership usually is. The first job of leadership is to focus attention.

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The Case for Innovation in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. In the US, we achieve some of these goals for some of the people, but none of these goals for all of the people.

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Health Reform Lessons from Mexico

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. By December of 2010, 40 million people were enrolled in it, and the country is on track to achieving the goal of universal coverage this year.