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Worth Reading
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"The War for Talent"
by
A team of McKinsey Consultants
Comments and notes: The book delivers survey results and commentary from practicing executives from across the country. Some of the more important topics deal with why people leave organizations and what they expect from work as it relates to their own personal development.
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"The Flight of the Creative Class"
by
Richard Florida
Comments and notes:
The primary conclusion of the book is that the United States economy has a needs the best and the brightest from foreign countries, especially India and China.
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"You Paid for the Skills, Now Keep Them:
Tuition Reimbursement and Voluntary Turnover"
by
Benson, George; Finegold, David;
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Mohrman, Susan Albers
Academy of Management Journal 2004, Vol. 47, No. 3
p. 315-331.
Comments and notes; The is an academic research paper on the impact of tuition reimbursement policies of a major US corporation. The data spans four and a half years of employee records on over nine thousand skilled employees in the case study.
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"The World is Flat"
by
Thomas Friedman
Comments and Notes: This is a very readable summary of the challenges facing the USA in the twenty-first century global economy.
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