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Today's Workforce in the Global Marketplace

Coaching Tip

They constantly generate new innovations; they use new networks to solve problems in an innovative manner, provided their interest is piqued. This generation grew up with social media and technologies-- they now expect their leaders to be inspiring, responsive, available and open. The network economy is going to be mainstream.

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8 Leading Areas for Change In Risk Management/Analysis In The Coming Years

Strategy Driven

Businesses across the world have become an integral part of the networked economy. It will push risk analysis toward the use of technology and software solutions. The technology is already here. The climate change, cyberattacks, and the global pandemic are just a couple of them. Feasible Level of Risk-Taking.

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Technology Alone Won’t Solve Our Collaboration Problems

Harvard Business Review

Sure, these technological improvements help in many ways. Our fast moving, globally networked economy simply was not possible a few years ago. But more often than not, the problem we’re facing isn’t a technological one, but a social one. Let me share a few examples. The call will be dropped.

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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

But with more and more technologically disruptive change affecting our classrooms – through social media, wearable computing, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), gamification, and so on – it’s time we shift away from the business school model of sage-on-a-stage. However, our current business model is ill-prepared for these trends.

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The Art of HR: Building REAL Social Networks

LDRLB

Social networking has evolved in various formats, using technological advances to allow people to communicate with their network in unique ways. These networks have infiltrated our workforce and have created numerous fluid dynamics in our workforce.