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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

It is a tough time as they bank on social capital and how to maintain cohesion without the benefit of informal coffee, lunch or smoke breaks. More perpetual policies might be necessary to increase wages and support future aggregate demand ensuring workforce fairness.

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Social Capital Is as Important as Financial Capital in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Ultimately, the key to success is authenticity.

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What Business Should Do about Occupy Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

ITC decided to measure its own performance in terms of its contribution to creating economic, environmental, and social capital through innovations that would be embedded in its business strategy.

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What Happens When Careers Last 20 Years Longer?

Harvard Business Review

Our decades strangely resemble each other – and have big implications for how individuals and companies may want to rethink a whole host of issues, from career management and pensions to mobility and leadership criteria. For decades, this has eliminated too many women from leadership pipelines. of all new businesses in the U.S.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. Inconsistent policies put the company at greater risk of lawsuits. The lack of control meant that the leadership team had little say in how the Contect brand was being managed at a local level.

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How to Negotiate After a Staggering Defeat: A Playbook for Democrats

Harvard Business Review

And if that’s true, everything they hold dear and every policy they care about could be a mere presidential oath away from being sacrificed at the altar of Trump’s vision for America. We’ve heard a lot about how the Democrats need new leadership. I have a different perspective. When times are bad, it can be fatal.