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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. By 2019, Microsoft’s market capitalization edged past the $1 trillion mark, making it the world’s most valuable company. By 2023, its market cap reached $2.5

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The New Normal for Employee Raises: What to Expect in 2024

HR Digest

In 2023, the labor market was a wild rollercoaster ride for both employers and employees. The labor market was cooling down, and the winds of change were blowing in a different direction. It seems that even with the desire to scale back, employers are still at the mercy of the labor market and its skills shortages.

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Research Reveals That Apprenticeships Offer A Bright Future To Participants

The Horizons Tracker

The labor market has been pretty loose since the 2008 financial crisis, with this underpinning a considerable rise in credentialism that has seen employers demanding four-year degrees for even entry-level jobs. With the labor market tightening, it’s clear that such alternative routes are urgently required.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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New Tool Offers Possible Career Alternatives For Those Threatened By Automation

The Horizons Tracker

While I have been notably skeptical about the various claims that robots and AI will destroy vast swathes of the jobs we know today, there is an understandable concern about the impact technology is likely to have on the labor market, and especially about how one can go about making our own job as disruption proof as possible.

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Veterans Don’t Want Hero Worship At Work

The Horizons Tracker

These 27 million people from across the United States were people who had the skills and abilities to make a difference in the workplace, but were often overlooked for roles. They included people with mental health difficulties, a criminal record, or disabilities.

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Patricia Nolan-Brown: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Patricia Nolan-Brown has been inventing and marketing problem-solving products for more than 22 years. She also teaches an online self-paced class consisting of 20+ short how-to videos via Skill Share. She is the author of Idea to Invention: What You Need to Know to Cash in Your Inspiration (AMACOM, January 2014.)

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