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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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5 HELP YOUR EMPLOYEES DEVELOP THE SKILLS THEY REALLY NEED

by Greg Satell, Abhijit Bhaduri, and Todd McLees

In an age of disruption, the only viable strategy is to adapt, and that has never been more true than it is today. A generation ago, the half-life of the value of a skill was approximately 26 years.1 Now the half-life is often less than five years. So, it is perhaps not surprising that, globally, corporations invested around $380 billion in learning and development programs in 2023.2

Yet we need to do better. We know that, after decades of trying, skills related to lean manufacturing, agile development, and overcoming unconscious bias, just to name a few, are woefully under-adopted in most organizations. In fact, a recent report by ...

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