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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Creating such a culture of learning is something Shelley Osborne, Vice President of Learning at Udemy suggests needs five steps to be undertaken in her latest book The Upskilling Imperative. Given the importance of the topic, the book isn’t the only one to explore it, and Hire Purpose itself provides an interesting contrast.

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The Trouble with Mary Chen

Harvard Business Review

Hall calls "high-context" cultures, like China, people tend to leave much unsaid in their communication, because they assume a lot of tacit knowledge and understanding (the context). In what the anthropologist Edward T. People from relatively low-context cultures like Europe and the U.S. Yes you can, I told her. Mary got the message.

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

He took aim at a high-profile target, a book by three McKinsey & Company consultants called The War for Talent. Unfortunately for the authors, one of the star companies in their star-struck book was Enron, whose top brass boasted about the ambitious, aggressive, sharp-elbowed individualists who populated its ranks. Let's make an offer.'

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Even in a Digital World, Globalization Is Not Inevitable

Harvard Business Review

This populist backlash reminds us that the rewards of globalization are not evenly distributed, and as a result there has been some questioning of the idea that borders should be open to trade — as well as concerns about what might happen instead. Related Video. Lack of Information Stokes Globalization Anxiety.