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Stereotypes Can Force Older Workers Into Retirement

The Horizons Tracker

But there is an important difference: the senior employees we have interviewed are confident about their own skills, and their colleagues are mostly positive about their contribution,” the researchers explain. “In the production industry, there is an openness about being worn out which is typically equated with physical decline.

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The Precarious Nature Of Youth Employment

The Horizons Tracker

Since the 2008 financial crisis created ructions in the labor market, there has been prolonged focus on the nature of work. As the labor market has proved resilient in terms of people generally having work, the concern shifted to the kind of work people had, with worries that much of the new work was precarious in nature.

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My Personal Coach

Coaching Tip

Self-improvement has always found a ready market; it's teaching with a trendier name. They parcel out their observations carefully. The sort of coaching that fosters effective innovation and judgment, not merely the replication of technique, may not be so easy to cultivate. It's also riskier: bad coaching can make people worse.

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. In fact, we think Cisco is one of the all-time best at this corporate skill.

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What to Do When Each Department Uses Different Words to Describe the Same Thing

Harvard Business Review

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Thus, the term “customer” can mean a potential buyer to the marketing department, the person who signed the purchase order to sales, and the legal entity that it bills to accounting. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. If a goal is too easy to achieve, it will not prompt sufficient ingenuity and skills development. (If

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Innovation in Cities. Anywhere where skilled traders and bankers cluster will become a productive hub.