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Holiday Human-Capital Culling Could Cost

Harmonious Workplaces

Compilation videos of holiday decorating fails. Historically stable jobs such as those in software development, information management, and mathematics have seen some of the most dramatic drops in the workforce , with reductions in hiring of as much as 50% in some sectors and layoffs reported by watchlists on TechCrunch and other sites.

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PARADE Method

CaseInterview.com

The PARADE Method (tm) is an approach to answering resume-oriented job interview questions. It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Interviewers want to know what you did.

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Creating Simple Rules for Complex Decisions

Harvard Business

These rubrics can help judges decide whom to detain, tax auditors whom to scrutinize, and hiring managers whom to interview. Following our rubric would ensure defendants are treated equally, with only the highest-risk defendants detained, simultaneously improving the efficiency and equity of decisions. Related Video.

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video. To prove this, ING made every employee at its headquarters (nearly 3,500 people) re-interview for their job.

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Minimum Efficient Scale

CaseInterview.com

Today, I want to introduce you to (or perhaps remind you of) the concept of the minimum efficient scale. In the software startup world, “to scale up” means to “get big fast.”. For example, Amazon is able to process and deliver its customers’ orders very efficiently because of its “scale.”. Minimum efficient scale.

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Lettuce Bot - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

MishTalk

Case Against The Fed. Engineers from Silicon Valley tinkered with the software on a laptop to ensure the machine was eliminating the right leafy buds. Machinery and machine technology has made farming easier and more efficient for centuries. Mish Audio Video. This Week in Money Interview. Home Builders.

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Research: Why Best Practices Don’t Translate Across Cultures

Harvard Business

In China, however, workers equated speed with efficiency. For example, the efficiency lens in China led to an adoption of the practice that was out of line with the goals of the innovation center to be more agile and iterative. In some cases, they left for companies where managers were more hands-on.

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