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The Real Reason the German Labor Market Is Booming

Harvard Business

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible. The industrial relation system in Germany is autonomous. With just 2.6 trillion in 2016.

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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

It is helpful to test assumptions, adopt a different point of view, challenge habits, and search for ideas outside your industry or function. Like me, you may have first learned about this company from their marketing campaign: "We don't make a lot of the products you buy. link] One of the world's most innovative supply chains.

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Getting Smart About Change Management

BCG

Turbulence is affecting more and more industries, more frequently and more severely. One-time market leaders and corporate giants fall rapidly from grace, having failed to modernize or having lost out to nimble competitors. One industry that has been a huge beneficiary of all this turbulence is the change management industry.

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7 Step Process to Create a Great LinkedIn Profile

Tom Spencer

It is also the oldest of the major social media networks, being launched in May 2003, nine months before Facebook. Your headline is like the marketing tagline for your profile. LinkedIn is a great place to connect with recruiters, colleagues, and other people in your industry, as well as to find jobs. The bottom line.

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How to Get Your Articles to Millions of Readers

The Fearless Marketer

A couple weeks ago I did an interview with an independent professional that just might rock your marketing world. When she explained one of her marketing strategies, I thought, “Wow, you really cracked the code on this!”. I built a very big list from 1997 to about 2003. What if you could tap into a half-million person list?

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Do Most Companies Even Try to Innovate Anymore?

Harvard Business

Companies like Samsung, Google, or BMW—the top players in their respective industries—are prospering. Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. We are living in the age of the superstar firm.

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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney

Tom Spencer

Founded in 2003, Pacific Strategy Partners has offices in Sydney and Melbourne. PJP’s Australian clients come from a diverse range of industries and are typically top 100 listed companies, but a few are large government owned corporations. Pacific Strategy Partners. Website: pacificstrategy.com.au. Crescendo Partners.