Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

If you wore a white shirt, showed up, and met minimal expectations, you had a job for your entire career. As recently as 10 years ago global outsourcing was largely limited to manufacturing or lower-level service jobs. In the future, many more managerial and professional jobs will be outsourced.

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HR Digest

JULY 12, 2024

The role of HR needs to extend beyond their routine tasks of managing payroll and attendance, tasks that can be outsourced to Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), so their energy can be better spent on tasks such as supporting the managers with their role.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2024

Consider outsourcing this task to a laundry service rather than spending valuable time sorting and folding clothes. By delegating chores, you free up time to focus on more important endeavors, whether it’s advancing your career, nurturing relationships, or pursuing personal hobbies.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 19, 2020

A second paper from LSE found that there was no real relation to the return of jobs after a recession, and the investment in automated technologies in a particular industry. They are at pains to point out, however, that this is not to be taken as a sign of jobs being destroyed, or indeed that this technological disruption is a new thing.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 18, 2020

The impact of technological and economic changes on industries has been pretty well examined over the years, not least as the impact of declining industries or employers has such a profound impact on the vitality of towns and even cities. Do people leave the area in the search for new work? Do communities enter a terminal decline?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2023

This article discusses several ways and steps on how to look for a job at 50, whether you’re looking to switch careers or get back into the workforce due to the recession. There are many famous people who have started their careers later in life. There are many famous people who have started their careers later in life.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked. If you’re not qualified don’t try to work around your lack of qualifications, go get the qualifications you need to compete.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Working with a hiring agency is also a good alternative for those who are more equipped to just outsource the task. Companies also have career pages on their own websites where candidates can make their interests known or can find the resources to email the company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Career opportunities for women in "the New India" are rapidly expanding, but family expectations and social mores remain rooted in tradition. Not surprisingly, the most stress is felt among women between 25 and 55 years of age, who are trying to balance demanding careers with obligations at home.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Throughout my career, I have consistently faced the question, "How does HR add value in a business?" Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Perhaps the biggest challenge for sales ops leaders is delivering a huge diversity of work, while operating in a constantly changing business and technology environment. Strategies that use both internal and external (outsourced) resources enable sales ops leaders to build and manage these diverse capabilities cost-effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Early in my career I gathered some data for a client on cooking. A final adaptation should be done through technological innovation, which is how Big Food really got its start. One promising innovation is MATS technology, or microwave assisted thermal sterilization, created at Washington State University.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Another psychological dynamic contributing to sudden vincibility is that successful business leaders usually have a strong interest in protecting their current products, customers, and investments — and therefore may unconsciously overlook or avoid trends or technologies that might threaten that base. That's why the late C.K.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

These relationships were essential in gaining the confidence of customers who had qualms about outsourcing to IBM. Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." As Palmisano built IBM into the world's leading information technology company, its competitors dithered.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Technologies that connect people to knowledge, services, and one another across the globe have acted as a centrifugal force, spinning functions and authority away from the center toward millions of previously silent and disempowered individuals. Information and communications technology is blowing the old categories into bits.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Other areas where machine intelligence could soon be commonly used include: Career planning. Many employees worry about the consequences of all of this technology on their roles.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

MBAs who lack programming skills often ask this question when they pursue careers in technology companies. Rather, my goal with the survey was to learn whether MBAs saw this well designed and rigorous course as a good investment of their time, given their career objectives and other course options. It has been edited slightly.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

WF: What do you see as the main career lessons of the book? TC: One thing the book suggests is that only being technically skilled may not be that useful, because those jobs can be outsourced or even turned over to smart machines. Do you see the path towards greater specialization as the path to career security? Is that Good?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. The business press puts a tremendous focus on technology and innovation, but what it doesn't do is put it into context.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. I never realized that we have behavioral economists on staff who can apply psychological and cognitive research to help clients with technology implementation projects.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In a world of virtual value chains and multi-part outsourcing, how do we bring good judgment to bear? In a world of virtual value chains and multi-part outsourcing, how do we bring good judgment to bear? His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Consider the situation faced by a leading provider of outsourcing and information technology consulting services with approximately $1.5 The idea was to increase the focus on clients, improve flexibility and scalability, eliminate redundancy and excess costs, accelerate growth and profitability, and improve career opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Chamber of Commerce emphasized flex-time as one way to do this — it found that three out of four Millennials reported that work-life balance drives their career choices. Embrace technology and make collaboration a way of doing business. Loosen up the notion of the career ladder. A 2015 report on Millennials from the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

“Part of running a 21st-century company with a 21st-century work force is establishing systems that allow for women to go out and return from maternity leave with minimal impact on the company or on their careers,” says Joan Williams, founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Using these publications as the main “currency” for career advancement has produced four unintended consequences. Business schools could also rely on new technologies to measure a professor’s impact. Where has this stuff been hiding?” We’re just not there yet.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2017

Jane is a marketing director at a technology firm, where she manages a small team, works late, and travels once per quarter. By taking on too many household responsibilities while men take free time to recharge and advance their careers, women can lose sight of their priorities and fail to move ahead in areas that are most important to them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Having a mentor has always helped with professional development and career advancement, but in today’s complex workplace, one mentor alone often won’t do. When you come across authorities on topics that could help you advance your career, track them for a while, and then follow those who seem the most valuable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks. (We

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career. The biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is delaying the first step until they have settled on a destination. “The only reason I could even think about doing something like this is that early in my career was because I was living beneath my means,” she says.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Dave didn’t advocate any particular design model, just one the leader knows how to employ and one flexible enough to be applied to the range of organizational situations a leader faces in the course of a career. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The most important capabilities systems do not fall neatly into groupings designed many decades ago.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

The media and technology sectors have traditionally been the biggest employers of freelancers but the good news is that “almost every industry is expanding their use of contingent workers,” says King. . As with any career transition, it’s important to seek advice from those with more experience and expertise than you.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

She went onto a journalism career at the Financial Times, Globe and Mail, and Reuters, and wrote books on Russia’s transition to capitalism and the rise of the global plutocracy. There is also a technology outsourcing industry. There’s been a lot of Chinese investment in that part of the Ukrainian economy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Research has shown that executives with social CEOs say their CEOs’ social media presence makes them feel inspired (52%), technologically advanced (46%), and proud (41%). Outsourcing sociability might save time but employees can sniff out inauthenticity in a nanosecond. Embrace a “media company mindset.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

By outsourcing the decision to someone else, you “lose control over the outcome,” Brett says. Ultimately, what’s best for the organization may not be the same as what’s best for your career. Joyeeta Das, the CEO and founder of Gyana, a big-data company based in the UK, used to work at a large technology company.

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