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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

As a consequence of accelerating change, the old model of managerial skill development and application is no longer effective. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. How did you develop it?

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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

MARC is focused on empowering male executives and leaders to model inclusive behavior, influence more equitable talent management systems and processes, and build effective partnerships across gender. One of the areas we’re focused on is expanding our pipeline of diverse talent through recruitment, development and promotion.

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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

A disaggregated laptop that is lighter and more versatile, since I can use the screen by itself as an e-reader and the keyboard with other devices. Boeing refers to its global "value webs," an approach that turns managers into systems integrators. I recently bought an iPad. After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard.

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The Truth About How Uber’s App Manages Drivers

Harvard Business Review

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. Customers act as managers.

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A Business Model for Bangladesh

Harvard Business Review

The true solution, we think, lies in understanding the changed nature of modern supply chains and identifying new business models better suited for managing them. But producers in many of the newer entrants (such as Bangladesh) tend to be small and highly disaggregated.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

As business leaders and managers, we have become increasingly capable of engaging a workforce that is some combination of virtual and on site, part time and full time, permanent and contingent. The second area of opportunity with cognitive automation is for companies to develop new products and services.

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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

Significant investment also takes place in cockpit technology as well as in training and development (e.g., To answer these questions, we need to begin disaggregating work and understanding how automation and AI can differentially handle various aspects of work.