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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

Before Silicon Valley disrupted the world with new technologies and business models, America’s industrial giants paved the way. Companies like General Electric, United Technologies, and Caterpillar were the Google and Amazon of their day, setting gold standards in innovation, growth, and profitability.

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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

Vrio Corp has been committed to following market trends and increasing its value proposition through transformation: investing in technology and content aligned with the consumers’ habits, emphasizing the next generation. Daniel Roldán Chiffoleau is the Chief Transformation Officer at DirecTV Latin America (Vrio Corp.),

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Carnival of HR – April 22, 2015 Edition

Lead Change Blog

We weren’t looking for technology, but rather for values that held true yesterday, hold true today, and will hold true tomorrow. Doug Shaw of What Goes Around shared two posts which build off of each other. Here is a picture from one of the posts Doug Shaw shared: I hope you have enjoyed today’s carnival.

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The Optimal Margin of Illusion

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Robert Bruce Shaw : Research into the psychology of leadership highlights the benefit of being more confident than you should be. awareness blind spots coaching development feedback Robert Bruce Shaw' Robert holds a Ph.D. degree in organizational behavior from Yale University.

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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

Eric Jacobson

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the new book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. It is the entire world.

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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

Eric Jacobson

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. It is the entire world.

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The Rise of the 4 Day Work Week: Challenges and Benefits

HR Digest

In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes estimated that technological change and productivity improvements would make a 15-hour workweek possible within a couple of generations. A Brief History of the Workweek The 4 day workweek may seem like a new concept , but the idea of reducing the workweek is not.

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