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Servant Leadership: The Unstoppable Force for Greatness

Rick Conlow

Managers are poorly trained and disengaged from executive leadership. The negative bottom-line results equal lower customer service, quality, productivity, and sales. The tech industry laid of tens of thousands of people recently. The tech industry laid of tens of thousands of people recently. Yet, they lost their jobs.

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Servant Leadership: The Unstoppable Force for Greatness

Rick Conlow

Managers are poorly trained and disengaged from executive leadership. The negative bottom-line results equal lower customer service, quality, productivity, and sales. The tech industry laid of tens of thousands of people recently. The tech industry laid of tens of thousands of people recently. Yet, they lost their jobs.

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Kim Ramko, Principal, Southeast Health and Life Sciences Industry Leader at EY

The Source

It’s July 3rd 2017. Ramko has come a long way: Her first stop after university was Kimberly-Clark—a consumer products company—where she put her degree in computer information systems to use as a programmer and analyst: “I am an IT geek,” she reveals, “and proudly so.”. The guy she’s been dating is in Switzerland, where he lives.

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When Companies Should Invest in Training Their Employees — and When They Shouldn’t

Harvard Business

According to one industry report , U.S. companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. Training is useful at times but often fails, especially when it is used to address problems that it can’t actually solve. Photodisc/Getty Images.

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Fourth Industrial Revolution: Robots, Artificial Intelligence Will Destroy 5.1 Million Jobs by 2020

MishTalk

Fourth Industrial Revolution Coming A new study on the " Future of Jobs " by the World Economic Forum at Davos claims a Fourth Industrial Revolution is Coming. The Fourth Industrial Revolution includes developments artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, genetics, and biotechnology.

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Will Cognitive Computing Disrupt the High-Skill Labor Market?

Tom Spencer

She danced to requests and wittily answered customers’ questions on topics which ranged from product information and weather forecasts to their love life. An Economist report entitled “Lifelong Learning: How to survive in the age of automation”, which appeared in the 14th-20th January 2017 edition, provides useful insights on this question.

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Why Character Matters in Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

Leadership character is shown to align the leader-follower relationship, increasing both leader and follower productivity, effectiveness, and creativity. Training helps create character muscle memory making the right decision automatically. Industrial and Commercial Training, 48 (8), 394-399. Othman, R. & Ishizaki, H.