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Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close the Skills Gap

Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close the Skills Gap

By Deanna Mulligan and Greg Shaw

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Deanna Mulligan offers a practical look at the effects of automation and why the private sector needs to lead the charge in shaping a values-based response. With a focus on the power of education, she proposes that the solutions to workforce upheaval lie in reskilling and retraining for individuals and companies adapting to rapid change.

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Publisher: Columbia Business School Publishing
Publish Date: 10/27/2020
Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780231179485
ISBN-10: 0231179480
Language: English

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A WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER The future of work is already here, and what this future looks like must be a pressing concern for the current generation of leaders in both the private and public sectors. In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine. How can we survive and thrive in the face of such drastic change? Deanna Mulligan offers a practical, broad-minded look at the effects of workplace evolution and automation and why the private sector needs to lead the charge in shaping a values-based response. With a focus on the power of education, Mulligan proposes that the solutions to workforce upheaval lie in reskilling and retraining for individuals and companies adapting to rapid change. By creating lifelong learning opportunities that break down boundaries between the classroom and the workplace, businesses can foster personal and career well-being and growth for their employees. Drawing on her own experiences, historical examples, and reports from the frontiers where these issues are unfolding, Mulligan details how business leaders can prepare for and respond to technological disruption. Providing a framework for concrete and meaningful action, Hire Purpose is an essential read about the transformations that will shape the next decade and beyond.

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Deanna Mulligan is chief executive officer of the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. She has held senior positions at McKinsey, AXA Financial, and New York Life Insurance Company and is a board member of Vanguard.

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As executive vice president and chief technology officer of Microsoft, Kevin Scott's 20-year career in technology spans both academia and industry as researcher, engineer and leader. Prior to joining Microsoft, Scott was senior vice president of engineering and operations at LinkedIn, where he helped build the technology and engineering team and led the company through an IPO and six years of rapid growth.

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