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Stop Setting Goals You Don’t Actually Care About

Harvard Business

Many people fail on their professional development goals for the year because they take on a lot of goals — goals that they feel they “should” do but ultimately don’t energize them. For example, this year, I decided to make writing a book proposal for a new book my primary professional development goal.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem. In January 2017 we partnered with Colleen Showalter from the local Boys and Girls Club (BGC) in Portland, Oregon, and asked if they would help us recruit new talent, ages 18 and above, from underrepresented groups.

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Consultant Marketing Trust Barometer

Jerry Fletcher

Income inequality is the most significant factor in developed countries like the USA 56% of the population worldwide believe that Capitalism does more harm than good in today’s world 83% of employees fear losing their jobs Government and media are perceived to be incompetent and unethical Business is seen as the only competent institution.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

The good news is that natural disasters themselves, which Munich Re says caused $330 billion in economic losses globally in 2017, provide a template for how to mitigate the growing and catastrophic risk posed by AI. Our growing reliance on so many intelligent, connected devices is opening up the possibility of global-scale shutdowns.

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The U.S. Needs a New Paradigm for Data Governance

Harvard Business

election raised important challenges concerning data privacy, security, ethics, transparency, and responsibility. This lack of knowledge — despite the millions of dollars that the tech industry spent on lobbying Washington in 2017 — shows that technology literacy among lawmakers still needs to be improved.

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How to Navigate Machiavellianism in the Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

Leadership Style: Research suggests that ethical leadership is a potential remedy for the undesirable behavior of Machiavellianism. Ethics include dealing with what is good and bad with moral duty and obligation. Training and Development: Bringing out the best in all personality types includes training and development.

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