Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - Chicago could experience weak job growth and substantial job displacement over the next decade if it doesn't boost its profile in the tech industry and train workers, according to a new study. The analysis, published recently by the McKinse

The Atlantic

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Updated at 9:54 a.m. ET on February 6, 2020. When Pete Buttigieg accepted a position at the management consultancy McKinsey & Company, he already had sterling credentials: high-school valedictorian, a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a Rhodes Scholars

Working Mother

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Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc. Subha V. Barry Subha V. Barry is Vice President and General Manager of Working Mother Media. Subha oversees Working Mother magazine, workingmother.com, Diversity Best Practices, the leading corporate membersh

Shop Talk

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The COVID-19 disruption we are all enduring represents a pivotal moment in history where humanity’s future trajectory is being revectored. The decisions we make and the actions we take during this perplexing pandemic period are laying down the tracks

Artist's Back to Basics

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By Phil Frankel Greetings! In this series of articles my aim is to present a student’s perspective of learning to paint, with all the inherent distractions of “everyday life” that we each, simultaneously, have to cope with. Today’s article will deal

Los Angeles Times

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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg was freed Monday from a confidentiality pact that barred him from publicly identifying the clients of a controversial management consulting firm that employed him a decade ago. The mayor of South Bend,

Futurity

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Teamwork is great, but only if we get a chance to step away and do our own thinking, say researchers. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that interrupting problem-solving teamwork with breaks for individual refle

True Love

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There you are in the middle of a rapidly changing economy wondering where your professional aspirations belong – trying to keep up with your peers, impress your parents or make a living that you can be proud of. But, you aren’t sure if you’re headed

Visi

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One of the things that continues to drive my work is the firm belief that design can, has and will continue to change the world. I am in constant awe of the far-reaching tendrils of design, of its ability to influence ways of living, working, playing

Entrepreneur

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Too many companies focus on quickly filling a position with a candidate who can do the job, or subconsciously hire people who reflect the makeup of the team

NPR

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The list of clients Buttigieg released includes Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Loblaws, Best Buy, the National Resources Defense Council, the EPA, the Department of Energy, the Pentagon and more.

NPR

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Researchers came up with a test to see if people are flexible thinkers. And they gave it to Westerners and to Himba people in Namibia. The results might surprise you.

The Atlantic

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In an exclusive interview, the presidential candidate reveals the clients he worked with, what he did for them, and how the experience shaped the way he solves problems.

Los Angeles Times

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By presidential campaign standards, Pete Buttigieg has been pretty much an open book - but with one chapter missing. The Democratic South Bend, Ind., mayor has let reporters sit on his campaign bus and pelt him with questions until they get tired; he

ThinkSales

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Diverse teams have higher rates of innovation, error detection and creative problem solving. Research by the NeuroLeadership Institute has proven that when we are forced to work in groups that are drawn from different disciplines and perspectives, ar

Los Angeles Times

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., released new details Friday about his confidential work with McKinsey & Co. a decade ago at the same time he escalated calls for the consulting firm to release him from a nondisclosure agreement. Buttigieg, w

Literary Hub

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The artist Harold Cohen spent his life trying to create code that might be regarded as creative in its own right. Cohen began his career intending to be a conventional artist, and he seemed to be well on his way to achieving this goal when he represe

Literary Hub

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In this episode, alumni and staff from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop join Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to honor the retirement of the unmatched Connie Brothers, the Workshop’s administrator for 45 years. O

Futurity

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Reminding children of their many roles—friend, neighbor, and daughter, for example—can lead to better problem-solving and more flexible thinking, research finds. “This is some of the first research on reminding kids about their multi-faceted selves,”

Saturday Star

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WHEN it comes to insurance, there are few more exciting markets right now than Africa. Before Covid-19 struck, McKinsey predicted the African insurance market would grow at about 7% a year between 2020 and 2025. That’s nearly twice as fast as North A

Pretoria News Weekend

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WHEN it comes to insurance, there are few more exciting markets right now than Africa. Before Covid-19 struck, McKinsey predicted the African insurance market would grow at about 7% a year between 2020 and 2025. That’s nearly twice as fast as North A

Futurity

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If you’ve ever got stuck trying to solve a puzzle only to back up and start over, that’s your brain recognizing that your current strategy isn’t working, and that you need a new way to solve the problem, according to new research. With the help of ab

Psychologies

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When I was in my teens, at that pivotal point when everyone asks you what you want to ‘do’ and what you are going to ‘be’, I saw life as a conveyor belt. If I passed certain landmarks on this conveyor belt by a fixed deadline – getting grade As at sc

Weekend Argus Saturday

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WHEN it comes to insurance, there are few more exciting markets right now than Africa. Before Covid-19 struck, McKinsey predicted the African insurance market would grow at about 7% a year between 2020 and 2025. That’s nearly twice as fast as North A

Independent on Saturday

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WHEN it comes to insurance, there are few more exciting markets right now than Africa. Before Covid-19 struck, McKinsey predicted the African insurance market would grow at about 7% a year between 2020 and 2025. That’s nearly twice as fast as North A

NPR

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McKinsey is the latest major American corporation to face legal, financial and public relations peril stemming from its role in the nation's deadly opioid epidemic.

NPR

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Artist and philosopher Jonathon Keats didn't need to create anything new to show the absurdity of human problem-solving. All he had to do was give human technology to animals.

Los Angeles Times

1 min. di lettura

Under pressure from Democratic presidential rival Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday released the names of clients he worked for at the management consulting firm that employed him a decade ago. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., work

JOY Magazine

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In this column Mark Hewett, CEO of Legion of Lions, will answer five key business questions. The first two questions are covered in this issue and the last three will be addressed next month: • What should be our readers’ approach to 2021 for their

Rotman Management

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FOR THE PAST DECADE, my focus as a scholar and consultant has been on corporate innovation. In particular, I’ve been studying the effects of asking new questions in start-ups and established organizations. Twenty-five years ago, my very first convers