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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

At a major CEO summit focused on globalization that I participated in last year, much of the discussion about strategy centered on how to avoid getting “Ubered,” or, better yet, how to “Uber” others. Are there really global network economies? Do switching costs help sustain network advantages?

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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.

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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.