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How Leaders Can Retain Employees During The Great Resignation

CEO Insider

The pandemic was the catalyst for a series of harsh and unpredictable changes in industries ranging from real estate to food service to child care, health, care and beyond. And, one common denominator that has affected all these industries since 2020 is steeply declining employee retention.

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Human Nature: The X Factor in Economic Theory

Marshall Goldsmith

However, the starting point for behavioral economists is how people behave, often in a controlled lab environment, which often leads to different conclusions about the logic and efficacy of many things, including mortgages, savings, and health care in both business and personal realms. Won't the market fix consumer mistakes?

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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

The second time I was in the market to buy. Dear Jeffrey, My company delivers mobile dictation and transcription service to field workers in IT and health care, saving these people time in reporting. How would you approach the market of sales professionals and sales management? I was solicited by their sales team twice.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas.

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Who’s Hiring (and Who Isn’t) in Five Charts

Harvard Business Review

labor market since the Great Depression, we learned Friday that 203,000 new jobs were created in November and the unemployment rate dropped to 7%. This is mostly about health care, which accounts for 70% of the jobs in the category and has been adding them much faster than the educational sector.

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A Guide to Finding and Hiring the Best Contractors

Harvard Business Review

For example, the health care, real estate, and construction industries gained contractors in the past year, while public safety, retail, and the arts lost them. And when it comes to experience, companies in the market for contractors shouldn’t limit themselves to costly industry veterans.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.