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Global Workers Are Ready for Retraining

Harvard Business Review

In surveying 11,000 people in lower-income and middle-skills jobs and 6,500 managers across 11 countries, Fuller discovered that, contrary to what bosses believe, many employees are excited about new technologies and willing to be trained in new skills. But they don’t always know what they need to learn or how to access and pay for it.

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Where Disruptive Innovation Came From

Harvard Business Review

Disruptors adopt a new technology and target a market segment that doesn’t matter to incumbents, then ride improvements in the technology to expand into established players’ core customer base. In 1995, Christensen and Joe Bower published the article that introduced the notion of disruptive technology.