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How to Win with AI and Automation

HR Digest

Most nations already face the challenge of adequately training their labor forces to meet the current needs of employers. Across the OECD, spending on worker training and development has been declining over the last twenty years. Spending on worker transition has also continued to shrink as a percentage of GDP.

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Employee Reskilling Is The Answer to the Talent Shortages At Work

HR Digest

While keeping up with changing times has always been a necessary consideration regardless of the industry, the rapid upsurge of technology recently has really highlighted the need for reskilling programs in order to understand how to do a job you might have been doing for years already, albeit in much more complex ways now.

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Macro and Micro Motivation

The Center For Leadership Studies

It is the study of employment, the forces of productivity and the factors impacting gross domestic product (GDP). We want to learn how to do the things we like, that the organization we work for values, and have the comfort of knowing we can continue to do those things until we determine it is time to learn something else — or not!

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How to Bring Apple's Overseas Cash Hoard Home

Harvard Business Review

Kleinbard in wrote in a 2007 Tax Notes article called "Throw Territorial Taxation From the Train" (it's so far behind a paywall that I can't even link to it). GDP and corporate taxes 6%; in the third quarter of 2011, profits were up to 13.1% of GDP and corporate taxes down to 2.7%. firms," attorney Edward D. tax burden.

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Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. In 2010, just under 11% of the workforce was employed in manufacturing, and manufacturing contributed 13% of GDP. There is nothing a German can do that a properly trained and incentivized American cannot. In the U.S.,

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Technology Is Changing Transportation, and Cities Should Adapt

Harvard Business Review

Such improvements could help cut the costs of traffic congestion ( about 1% of GDP globally ), road accidents ( 1.25 One is how to tailor new mobility approaches to a city or region’s specific context and challenges. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. billion in its associates through higher wages, better benefits and enhanced training. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.