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The Big Baby Boomer Exodus: How to Respond to the Loss of Experienced Talent

Granite Leadership Strategies

If you haven’t already noticed this trend in your own organization, get ready: a good portion of your workforce will be leaving in the next two to ten years, and they’ll be taking their years of experience and hard-earned talent with them. This gives you the best of both worlds.

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Dual-Career Couples Are Forcing Firms to Rethink Talent Management

Harvard Business

Jennifer Petriglieri, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD, asks company leaders to consider whether they really need to relocate their high-potential employees or make them travel so much. And if workers can’t set boundaries around mobility and flexibility, she argues, firms lose out on talent.

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Disruption again, but this time from the supply side

The Source

Nowhere is that more relevant than when we consider the current talent crisis. We’ve generally defined disruption as a mass change in client behaviour; that, for example, Uber was disruptive, not so much because of its technology, but because people changed the way they travelled.

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What is Consulting? Is Management Consulting a Good Fit for You?

Tom Spencer

The main downside voiced by many people is that consulting is very travel intensive. Consultants are almost always on the road, travelling to client locations to view the issue first-hand and exploring how your team can fix it; it’s not uncommon to hear a consultant traveling 4+ days a week with long days of 12+ hours.

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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business

I went with the pizza, but my lack of choices was annoying — so much so that, when I got home, I started looking into the data on health and travel for work. According to the Global Business Travel Association and American Express , Americans took more than 500 million domestic business trips in 2016.

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Consulting Success: Why Curiosity is the Key

Tom Spencer

For example, LinkedIn’s Talent Blog has published an article titled “ Why Curiosity Might be the Most Important Skill for Recruiters ”, and Forbes has published an article on “ Curiosity: A Leadership Trait That Can Transform Your Business To Achieve Extraordinary Results ”.

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With Gratitude

CaseInterview.com

I am grateful to work with a staff of talented, caring individuals that do the things that I’m not good at doing. I am grateful for the chance to travel, see the world, and discover different ways of doing things. I am grateful to have the time and space to explore new ideas and contemplate them. With Deep Gratitude, Victor.

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