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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing. What does this mean for workforce learning and development? In particular, we see several interesting developments: Technology-supported peer learning is disrupting the old paradigm. Development, not deficiency, is motivating learning.

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Understanding the Costs and Causes of Employee Turnover

Tom Spencer

Voluntary turnover is the most crucial type for firms to focus on as it can be impacted by management decisions and organisational styles. This “2 year” number may explain the rationale behind the now common and sought after ‘management trainee’ or ‘rotational programs’ that many organizations offer newly graduated business students.

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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle

Harvard Business

When it comes to training and workforce development, lots of them. Almost half (49%) said that it was difficult to ensure a return on investment (ROI). Launched in 2015, Generation works in five countries (India, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, and the United States). Employers pay Generation based on the ROI of the graduates they hire.

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How to Get Your Team to Use Their Vacation Time

Harvard Business

So if vacation has such a good ROI, why are people taking less and less of it? In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation. A 2015 HBR article by Ron Friedman is a treasure trove of facts about the benefits to reaction time, creativity, and engagement.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F). °F). What should they do ?

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What I Learned from Trying to Innovate at the New York Times

Harvard Business

At the Times , the Strategy Team pursues and manages strategic relationships for the company, takes in the resources needed to stay alive, and channels those to the rest of the organism. Managing directors open doors to corporations for portfolio companies in the ecosystem — hundreds per month come through their doors.

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