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5 Steps to Disrupt and Improve Your Talent Pipeline

Organizational Talent Consulting

Today this stems from rapid advances in the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, advanced materials, and genomics. Mastercard reported that the size of the gig economy will reach $455 billion, and approximately 50% of the workforce will be freelancing in the US by 2027. A survey of leaders by McKinsey & Co.

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

MishTalk

The Fourth Industrial Revolution includes developments artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, genetics, and biotechnology. The report is a 167 page PDF slog. Here are a couple of tables I created from the report data. The first three columns are as presented in the report.

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Framework for Understanding Market Tops and Bottoms

MishTalk

What follows are a few snips from the full report. One area that currently is frothy is the biotechnology sector. CREDIT SIGNS OF A TOP: TODAY LOTS OF JUNK DEBT AND VERY LOW QUALITY In May 2013 Variant Perception wrote a report titled Credit Bubble, Toil and Trouble. The situation has only got worse since we wrote in our report.

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Companies Can Address Talent Shortages by Partnering with Educators

Harvard Business

” This groundbreaking report, commissioned by President Ronald Reagan, concluded that the U.S.’s Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Although it’s hard to pinpoint when skills shortages became the norm in the U.S., ” “Our goal,” it stated, “must be to develop the talents of all to their fullest.”

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business

Instead, boards typically looked for expertise in their firms’ industry (51%), strategy (34%), and financials (30%). ” When we asked directors what they found most challenging in their role as a director, one-third (33%) reported that they struggled with keeping on top of new technologies.

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Why Boards Aren’t Dealing with Cyberthreats

Harvard Business

Just 38% of directors reported having a high level of concern about cybersecurity risks, and an even smaller proportion said they were prepared for these risks. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). .”

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Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse

Harvard Business

The exercise requires the group to formulate and execute a strategy to achieve a specified outcome, against the clock. We worked with a startup biotechnology company. When its R&D team members tried our strategy execution task, they performed terribly. It cannot be predicted or easily orchestrated. A lot less diverse!