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Today's Workforce in the Global Marketplace

Coaching Tip

Viljakainen and Mark Mueller-Eberstein, explains the crucial significance of why today's corporate leaders must adapt to the culture of the younger generation to keep their companies relevant and how to retain a competitive staff. The network economy is going to be mainstream.

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What Uber’s China Deal Says About the Limits of Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Rather than rehashing these points, I want to take a broader perspective and use the Uber-Didi deal to reflect more broadly on platform companies and globalization. Platforms are supposed to enable rapid, asset-light globalization. Are there really global network economies?

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Business School Professors Should Be Like Movie Directors

Harvard Business Review

Classrooms are becoming a mesh of virtual and real, inspiring more collaboration, and expanding across hundreds of cultures as campuses globalize. Equipping students with the skills to master these challenges is how learning takes place. Employers expect us to train our leaders to create value on this new frontier, as they should.

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The Art of HR: Building REAL Social Networks

LDRLB

Handy was mostly correct in his predictions, but even he probably did not foresee the explosion and extent of the technology and networks that would make this possible. HR leaders must also be able to train leaders on how to effectively navigate the informal social network within the organization.