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What to Do Before You Fire a Pivotal Employee

Harvard Business Review

As noted in research by Paul Adler and Seok-Woo Kwon at the University of Southern California, a well-designed employee network essentially makes up the “social capital” of a company, due to all the assets or resources that can be mobilized through the network.

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What Younger Workers Can Learn from Older Workers, and Vice Versa

Harvard Business Review

We typically imagine that the young can help the old understand technology and the old can impart general wisdom. Over time, financial literacy increases; in our sample, it was highest for people in their sixties. Coaching and mentoring across age groups makes sense. There is surely much each can learn from the other.