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The Future of Leadership: Embracing Change in a Dynamic World

Effective Managers

Leading with Empathy and Agility Empathy has always been an important trait for leaders, but in today’s world, it is indispensable. This human-centered approach goes hand in hand with agility. The ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances has become a defining characteristic of successful leaders.

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How to Become an Agile Learner

Harvard Business

Learning agility — the skill of learning from experiences so you can succeed in new situations — is a much sought-after skill to create a flexible, mobile, and resilient workforce. For example, a leader with learning agility can successfully transfer their talents across different parts of an organization.

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Stop Overlooking the Leadership Potential of Asian Employees

Harvard Business

When companies leverage the diverse talents of their Asian workforce, they can evolve into more global, agile, and powerful hubs of innovation and growth.

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When New Hires Get Paid More, Top Performers Resign First

Harvard Business

To attract new talent, employers often offer new hires higher wages than existing employees. But today, a combination of regulatory changes and technological advances have dramatically increased pay transparency in many sectors, making employees increasingly aware of these pay disparities.

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A Digital Talent Hub Can Make Your Sales Team More Agile

Harvard Business

Connecting existing systems that track applicants, onboard employees, and monitor performance can help improve your team’s productivity and performance.

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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together

Harvard Business

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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The Era of Agile Talent

Harvard Business

More of us are working in organizations employing a mix of freelancers, contractors, consultants, and full-timers, explains Jonathan Younger, coauthor with Norm Smallwood of “Agile Talent: How to Source and Manage Outside Experts.” ” Download this podcast.

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