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Weak Ties, Well-Being and Work Today

Ed Batista

Weak ties create more diverse connections across nodes, facilitating the dissemination of novel information. The benefits of this flexibility include responsiveness to employees' preferences, the ability to attract and retain talent in a wider range of geographical locations, and even increased productivity in some circumstances.

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9 HR Steps to Create an Impactful Employee Development Plan

AIHR

The benefits of employee development Types of employee development plans The biggest challenges in employee development planning Practical examples of successful employee development plans How can HR assist managers in creating an employee development plan? The benefits of employee development. Improving diversity and inclusion.

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Exploring the Scope (and Opportunities) of Digital Transformation

Mike Griffiths

Being web-based and having access to a diverse workforce allows for relatively easy-to-run small-scale experiments. Companies such as Humana (health insurance), Amgen (biotech), Automattic (web tools) are not only all-remote, digital success stories – they also run a lot of employee-led experiments. Digital Empowerment.

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Best & Worst States For Business 2023: Where The Boom Lives On

Chief Executive

They have been promoting Atlanta and other markets as attractive and diverse places rich in culture.” The fact that the Valley never was a huge office center has turned out to benefit it post-Covid. Site Selectors Guild. The map of economic might and opportunity continues to shift across the country as well. in 2021 from $23.22

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Research: How Cloud Computing Changed Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

Startups founded in sectors that benefited from the introduction of AWS raised much less capital in their first round of VC financing after AWS. Innovation is decreasing the cost of experiments in areas as diverse as biotech, hardware, and agriculture, resulting in the need for new sources of small amounts of capital such as angel investors.

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Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse

Harvard Business Review

Looking at the executive teams we work with as consultants and those we teach in the classroom, increased diversity of gender, ethnicity, and age is apparent. Received wisdom is that the more diverse the teams in terms of age, ethnicity, and gender, the more creative and productive they are likely to be. Intuitively, this makes sense.

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Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. Even with wages and benefits that are higher than those in the U.S. or China should get the gold medal. The truth is: Germany wins hands down.

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