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How Scientific Thinking Won the Women’s World Cup Title

Markovitz Consulting

Critics assailed Ellis for not knowing what she was doing, and making the most talented team in the world look bad. In 2018, the team was undefeated. The nadir was its game against France: the US team went down 2-0 after nine minutes to France and ultimately lost 3-0. After all, look at the lousy results. It 2019 it won the World Cup.

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How to attract talent when location is no longer a differentiator

Brimstone Consulting

With the shift to remote work, employee experience and culture are crucial to attracting and retaining talent. Location has traditionally played a significant role in attracting and retaining talent. Another 2018 survey found that 71.5% of job searches began by searching job openings in the candidate’s own metro area.

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Best Business Books 2018: Strategy

Strategy+Business

In Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life, Francesca Gino, a behavioral scientist and Harvard professor, upends the conventional wisdom on dealing with people who have difficulty adhering to norms. And these key questions are answered with clarity and verve in this year's best business books on strategy.

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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

Leaders face an unprecedented talent challenge with no immediately obvious solution. It is easy to logically think of the talent challenge as attracting and retaining the right people. How is the talent challenge like a supply chain challenge? What if you developed a verbund talent strategy? References. BASF at a glance.

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What to Do If Your Career Is Stalled and You Don’t Know Why

Harvard Business

Having assessed over 2,000 CEOs and over 18,000 C-suite leaders since 1995, we are struck by how often careers of talented executives stall or even derail because of seemingly trivial issues, many of which are utterly fixable. We often see talented executives hitting home runs in their own division and striking out with their peer group.

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New Research Shows How Employees Feel When Their Requests for Raises Are Denied

Harvard Business

We surveyed more than 160,000 workers between November 2017 and April 2018 as part of our PayScale Raise Anatomy study , which resulted in two major findings. What are similar organizations paying for the role in your talent market? First, companies generally do a poor job of communicating why people don’t get raises. .”

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Talent Prediction 2018: The New Role of the Business Unit Manager

Kates Kesler

CEOs (and activist investors) are pushing for simpler organizations with more autonomous, accountable business units. This call to action comes …

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