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How to Demonstrate Your Strategic Thinking Skills Developing your strategic thinking skills isn’t enough to get you promoted. In order to advance in your career, you need to demonstrate them. Leaders want to know what you think, and they view your worthiness for promotion through the lens of how ready you are to make bigger decisions. Ask yoursel...

How Foreign Investment Is Boosting U.S. Manufacturing Foreign investment presents U.S. manufacturers with two opportunities. Although it might be tempting for manufacturers to invest in solving only their immediate workforce needs, a larger investment in building the regional workforce development pipeline...

Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail Businesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way. These efforts have gone under many banners: total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds, to name a few. In alm...

What Leaders Really Do Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think. Leadership isn’t mystical and mysterious. It has nothing to do with having “charisma” or other exotic personality traits. It is not the province of a chosen few. Nor is leadership necessarily better than manage...