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Is China Pumping the Brakes on its Transition to a Services-Based Economy?

August 13, 2018 By James Lord

The World Bank estimates that up to 77% of jobs in China could be made redundant by machines in the long term. Investing in robots will become more attractive for manufacturers. The Chinese government also pledges to make China a “world factory” of robots. But real changes are much slower. Reports say that large numbers of workers are still used on production lines doing repetitive tasks such as scrubbing speaker systems with toothbrushes. Despite the fact that China’s labor costs are six times higher than 10 years ago, workers are often still cheaper than robots in short term.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Economy, Employment, Manufacturing, Talent Tagged With: Employment, Labor, labor market, Robotics, Service industry

Talent Management, an Interview with Edward E. Lawler III

January 25, 2017 By John Christian

Business has changed, specifically the relationship between management and employees. Once upon a time, companies offered careers—long-term, stable employment wherein the employee filled a narrowly-defined role. In past generations, it was common to spend an entire working lifetime at a single company, but now most millennials are ‘less loyal’ to employers, they go where their talents are valued. Edward E. Lawler III, Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Southern California, expounds on the new model, which he terms “talent management”, a new paradigm focuses on the critical needs of a business, and finding the right people that can fulfill them.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Conversations, Employment, Q&A, Talent, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: Finding Employees, Interviews, Q&A, The Thinker Interview

The Talking Cure: A Closer Look at the Bull Market in Business Storytelling

January 3, 2017 By Bennett Voyles

Storytelling is a reliable way to reach audiences. According to storytelling experts, organizing stories in a form that connects to people’s feeling is an effective way to make information more memorable. But for sales people, telling their sales stories well is more challenging than for CEOs telling a company story—a sales person’s time is limited as the audience is under no obligation to listen to them for a long time; and they need to learn to tell the story throughout the entire sales process, from introducing themselves to managing customer relationships, and the focus of these stories will also vary by culture.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Marketing, Talent Tagged With: storytelling in business

The Talking Cure: Storytelling As a Sales and Management Tool

December 12, 2016 By Bennett Voyles

Storytelling is one of the most important skills for leaders to learn, because their job is to gain trust, and to persuade and influence people. Today, a number of consultants offer services that teach storytelling to executives or help them develop stories for internal or external consumption. A good story is a memorable way to make a point. And by engaging the emotions, a story makes it easier to persuade or motivate the listener. Stories can fulfill several roles for an organization. Founders’ stories, for instance, can be especially useful in giving people a sense of their company’s identity and in shaping the company’s culture.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Branding, Management, Talent Tagged With: corporate storytelling, storytelling in business

Alternatives to the Annual Performance Review

September 21, 2015 By Bennett Voyles

Companies are abandoning the age-old tradition of the annual performance review. What can possibly replace it

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Digital Economy, Management, Talent, Technology Tagged With: Big Data, Decision-making, Employment, Human Resources, Management, Slider, Social Media

Firing the Annual Performance Review

September 14, 2015 By Bennett Voyles

Why are more and more companies—from Accenture to Deloitte—jettisoning the dreaded practice of the annual performance review.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Employment, Know China, Management, Talent Tagged With: Employment, GE, Human Resources, Innovation, Microsoft, Slider

The Robots Will Take Our Jobs. Then What?

August 11, 2015 By Major Tian and Neelima Mahajan

What will happen to humans when the robots take away our jobs? Martin Ford, author of Rise of the Robots, on the imminent threat to jobs and the capitalist system.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Conversations, Digital Economy, Q&A, Talent, Technology, Videos Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Foxconn, Martin Ford, Robotics, Robots, Slider

Red Star Rising: A Q&A With Steve Blank

July 27, 2015 By Bennett Voyles

Steve Blank, entrepreneur and founder of the Lean Startup movement, on how Beijing taught him the world no longer revolves around Silicon Valley.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Conversations, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Q&A, Talent Tagged With: Competition, Innovation, Internet Companies, Silicon Valley, Slider, Start-ups

The Next Big Gold Rush: China’s Smart Home Market

May 29, 2015 By Li Hui

Several companies—from tech giants like Alibaba to durables manufacturers like Haier—are betting big on the Smart Home market in China. Who’s doing what?

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Infographics, Innovation, Talent Tagged With: Alibaba, Baidu, Haier, Infographics, JD.com, Slider, Smart Home, Xiaomi

Brave Old World: Staying Motivated as a Mature Executive

May 20, 2015 By Bennett Voyles

You climbed all the organizational rungs and then hit the ‘Now what?’ question. Staying motivated is hard and here’s what can you do about the situation.

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Employment, Know China, Talent Tagged With: Employee Engagement, Human Resources, Leadership, Network, Slider

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