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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

Before Silicon Valley disrupted the world with new technologies and business models, America’s industrial giants paved the way. Companies like General Electric, United Technologies, and Caterpillar were the Google and Amazon of their day, setting gold standards in innovation, growth, and profitability.

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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

Eric Jacobson

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the new book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. It is the entire world.

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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

Eric Jacobson

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. It is the entire world.

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Successful Leadership Today: What to Do Now

Mark Sanborn

George Bernard Shaw said, “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Whether a change in technology you must adopt to keep up or an economic circumstance, a force outside the leader’s control has created the need for change. Drive Innovation If innovation is an option, few will choose it.

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What’s the Purpose of Companies in the Age of AI?

Harvard Business Review

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer technology are causing us to think again about some really basic questions: what is a firm? And as computer technology simplifies and reduces transaction costs further, it is these other things that firms do uniquely well that will come more to the forefront.