Marijn Dekkers, Bayer CEO: From GE to Germany
18 October 2015 As consolation prizes go, the career of Marijn Dekkers has been a good one. His teenage ambition was to make a living from tennis and he came close, reaching number two in the youth...
View ArticleLinkedIn is at the center of an ideological recruitment battle
18 November 2015 Eddie Vivas is in an odd position. His job is to apply mathematical formulas to LinkedIn’s millions of personal profiles to match the right potential job candidate with the right job...
View ArticleThe tech overload consultants advising on digital detox
08 October 2015 From first thing in the morning until last thing at night, Darren Fergus would check his email and social media accounts. Despite grumbles from his son, the entrepreneur thought he had...
View ArticleToday’s Lesson: Finding a Useful Definition for ‘Big Data’
Looking back, 2015 was finally the year that every professional service firm leveraged Big Data to drive remarkable results. OK, that’s an exaggeration. But could it be that 2015 was the year in which...
View ArticleRe-Organized Labor: The Changing Meaning of Being an ‘Employee’
As part of the management team at a labor-intensive service company, you undoubtedly know—at any given time—how many employees are working at the business. Or do you? Strictly speaking, it’s not...
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