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Economy Geopolitics

Trump, Trade Wars, VUCA: Military Veterans Are In High Demand As Company Executives

French business analysts note that for companies, like nations, the current context is decidedly VUCA: volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, to use a U.S. military strategy acronym. To succeed in Trump’s cut-throat commercial world, companies will need to acquire skills more common in matters of war and peace, than in traditional business operations..

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Work In Progress

Work → In Progress: Finding A Job In The Matrix

In early civilizations, landing a job amounted to interning until your employer died. Fast-forward a few thousand years and fortunately, internships have gotten shorter … and life expectancy has gotten longer! Still, job hunting has become a journey marked by alternating pulls of hope and hysteria. The swift ascension of global connectedness, Artificial Intelligence, the […]

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Economy Society Work In Progress

Work In Progress: TikTok Hiring, CV Hacking, Pawternity Leave

PARIS — We’ve seen the employee of the future … and she’s pale, red-eyed and hunchbacked. A recent article and a spooky life-size doll named Emma showing what can happen to the human body after working in front of a screen for 25 years, published in the French outlet We Demain, was meant to shock. […]

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Society

Who Says Top Students Make The Best Employees?

Grades reveal very little about human ability. That’s why the German Railway’s new application process downplays past academic performance.

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