Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Writing a book is a labor of love, and it’s a lot easier to love your own idea than someone else’s idea. Then I decided to make that one of the topics covered in the book, spanning two different chapters. After that, I thoroughly enjoyed writing the book, and am convinced it’s my best work on the subject. Including me.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Writing a book is a labor of love, and it’s a lot easier to love your own idea than someone else’s idea. Then I decided to make that one of the topics covered in the book, spanning two different chapters. After that, I thoroughly enjoyed writing the book, and am convinced it’s my best work on the subject. Including me.

Storytelling 65

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 14, 2010

Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S. Department of Labor Home Page Tom Peters, The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Change Guru TUTs Adventurers Club: Explore the power of thought & creative visualization to manifest dreams! The Secret - The Law of Getting What You Want The U.S.  Enjoy!  Enjoy!

Human Resources 100

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2014

Analyze internal/external labor demographics/pipelines. Offices need to be rennovated when people leave, thus impacting the budget (lots of things impact the budget – it’s off topic or very low priority). The Advisor’s Corner – How Should I Address Sensitive Subjects With My Staff?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 1, 2018

Writing a book is a labor of love, and it’s a lot easier to love your own idea than someone else’s idea. Then I decided to make that one of the topics covered in the book, spanning two different chapters. After that, I thoroughly enjoyed writing the book, and am convinced it’s my best work on the subject. Including me.

Storytelling 61

Storytelling How To Tools Books 61

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Writing a book is a labor of love, and it’s a lot easier to love your own idea than someone else’s idea. Then I decided to make that one of the topics covered in the book, spanning two different chapters. After that, I thoroughly enjoyed writing the book, and am convinced it’s my best work on the subject. Including me.

Storytelling 50

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Writing a book is a labor of love, and it’s a lot easier to love your own idea than someone else’s idea. Then I decided to make that one of the topics covered in the book, spanning two different chapters. After that, I thoroughly enjoyed writing the book, and am convinced it’s my best work on the subject. Including me.

Storytelling 50

Storytelling How To Tools Books 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2011

The trick to moving past these conflicts and on to increased productivity for everyone at your organization is knowing how to broach the topics in a way that leads to improved working relationships. If you go straight to the topic of controversy, most people will quickly get stuck in defending their positions and attacking their opponents.

Tips 62

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

My passion for this topic was formed at a very early age. He gave a 45-minute heartfelt speech about his decades of work freeing child and adult slave laborers from bondage in Indian mines and factories. I couldn’t agree more with this belief. I couldn’t agree more with this belief.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Licensing Sharpe Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas of the Washington Post write , "In particular, [labor force entry has] suffered among women — and it''s really suffered among young women — who are a lot less likely to enter the labor force than they were in 2002 and 2003.". The question is: why?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

As the public raises its expectations about appropriate corporate conduct, ranging from sustainability to global labor standards to animal welfare policies, more companies will find themselves in the cross-hairs more frequently. child labor); sometimes it is polarized (e.g. Sometimes the issue is one-sided (e.g. same-sex marriage).

Company 12

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Human resource experts have divergent views on the subject. When a person spends almost 8 hours in the company of colleagues then it is natural that such topics of conversation crop up. Discussing rival politicians and taking sides with opposing political parties and ideologies is a topic fraught with strife.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Rather than the free-wheeling interchange of ideas and labor we anticipate — we're grown-ups after all — working together is typically everything but easy. Ask for advice on a subject about which you know relatively little. And yet that's not always our experience in the office. Why is teamwork so difficult? Share an idea.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2012

Hourly wages and the classic 40-hour work week have trained us to measure our labor by the number of hours we log. I agree: all too often, information is repeated or the discussion goes off-topic. It's much harder to set project metrics or make subjective evaluations. At first glance, this seems perfectly reasonable.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 30, 2022

My team recently had the pleasure of facilitating a discussion on the topic — Is Anyone Doing Total Talent? — Total talent is one of those subjects that is discussed and dissected constantly — at industry conferences, in board rooms, and in countless blogs, social posts, and whitepapers. “I at an industry event.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

“Dislocations in labor markets, with old industries and jobs disappearing.” Rather than a Schumpeterian “creative destruction,” we’re seeing structural elimination of entire labor markets. ” I believed this topic to be so important that I devoted an entire chapter to it.

Open-book 8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

Pink topics. T he OpEd Project , which tracks the range of voices and quality of ideas we hear globally, coined the phrase “pink topics” to describe the areas in which women are most frequently visible as opinion leaders. These teaching notes are widely used to guide instructors on how to approach the cases in the classroom.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Level 5: The listener increasingly understands the other person’s emotions and feelings about the topic at hand, and identifies and acknowledges them. This could include the listener injecting some thoughts and ideas about the topic that could be useful to the other person.

Energy 8

Energy Skills Cooper Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Yet how often have you labored over a video or an infographic stalled on social, despite spending promotional dollars to generate traffic for it? Choose a topic or cause related to your brand that inspires passion and then find ways to involve people in it. It’s hard to predict what will be spread.

Marketing 8

Marketing Content Media Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

For instance, to create an in-depth assessment of how graphene is produced, iCEO asked workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to curate a list of articles on the topic. Labor Technology' iCEO routed tasks across 23 people from around the world, including the creation of 60 images and graphs, followed by formatting and preparation.

Software 8

Software Management Technology Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

Executives can stop taking in information that seems too complex or problematic to interpret, and instead grab superficial summaries that preclude a deeper understanding of the subject. Shoshana Zuboff writes, “Learning is the new form of labor.” This problem is not limited to top management, however.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

He will be “on trend,” as they say in fashion — in recent months, leaders from the new Mayor of New York to the Pope have also been vocal on the subject. The companies regularly voted among the best places to work are generally known for increasing their employees’ skills and value on the labor market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

There is mounting evidence that buybacks bear substantial blame for the extreme concentration of income at the very top and the disappearance of middle-class jobs in the United States over the past quarter century — a topic I discussed in a recent Harvard Business Review article. Employee education.

Innovation 10

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HR Digest

AUGUST 7, 2023

Some states and local jurisdictions have enacted laws prohibiting weight discrimination, offering protection to individuals who are subjected to weight-based discrimination. The EPA applies to employers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which includes most employers engaged in interstate commerce.

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Diversity Policies Document Report 98

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Everybody else on my panel was a money manager with tips on what to buy; I instead subjected my fellow alumni to a harangue about how ridiculous it was that American retirees had to spend so much time thinking about their investments, and how much better off most people would be with lifetime annuities.

Insurance 8

Insurance Price Uncertainty System 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Critical topics include leadership development of executives, mindset changes in the evolution from manager to executive to leader, executive mentoring, insights into how top professionals evolve, plateaus of professional accomplishment, developing a winning work ethic, lifelong learning and the accrual of business wisdom. Unskilled Labor.

Business Development 51

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 51

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

So here is my admittedly subjective look at the top 10 sustainability stories and themes of the year, with sustainability broadly defined as encompassing people, planet, and profits: 1. Yes, he was facing labor strife, but the strategy was also about creating a thriving middle class filled with people who could afford to buy his cars.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

However, due to data limitations, large-scale empirical research on this subject has been lacking. By specialists , I mean employees who focus on a single area; in the context of lobbying, specialists are those who lobby primarily on a single issue, be it defense, education, energy, or any other of the 79 defined issue topics.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet economists, including the MIT labor economist David Autor , argue that automation is a much greater factor in manufacturing job loss than outsourcing or trade deals is. More generally, why didn’t the presidential campaigns devote more attention to the topic? Automation, however, does not seem to be on his mind at all.

Long-term 8

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In addition, new rules for anti-corruption, transparency, enforcement of environmental agreements, and core labor standards would help the U.S. That failure will have implications for other critical topics on which the U.S. to compete and to build rule-of-law systems internationally. If the U.S. steadfastness or even the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

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