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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). To maximize their technology and talent investments, organizations need a culture that aligns with data-driven decision-making (Bartlett, 2013).

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business

In 2008 Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson wrote about their research on U.S. It’s safe to say that a significant part of the growing gap in how well different firms pay can be attributed to the latter “talent sorting” effect — but exactly how much continues to be debated.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Innovation and change. Some countries are at the border of multiple zones.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. Being able to recruit globally is supposed to help tech powerhouses like Facebook and Amazon find the talent they need. a competitive edge in the global war for tech talent.