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Reskilling and Upskilling: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
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Reskilling and Upskilling: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

by Harvard Business Review, Peter Cappelli, Ginni Rometty, Boris Groysberg, Raffaella Sadun
March 2025
Beginner to intermediate
224 pages
2h 57m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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10 LEARNING THE SKILLS OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

by Duncan Wardle

With almost 60% of employees saying they are very or extremely interested in participating in upskilling programs per a joint Gallup-Amazon survey, chances are your employees are interested too.1 So why are 57% of workers taking their education into their own hands? Most corporate learning programs aren’t cutting it because they lack the necessary element of creativity.2

When I was brought on as head of innovation and creativity at Disney 10 years ago, I was asked to embed a culture of innovation and creativity into the company’s DNA. The company had recently bought Marvel, Pixar, ESPN, Lucasfilm, and ABC, and all those teams were working separately with different innovation ...

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