Reskilling and Upskilling: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
by Harvard Business Review, Peter Cappelli, Ginni Rometty, Boris Groysberg, Raffaella Sadun
Introduction
THE NEW RESKILLING AND UPSKILLING AGENDA
by Peter Cappelli
To understand why today so much attention is on reskilling and upskilling among leaders and organizations, we need to take a quick trip back to last century.
In the days when “The Great Corporations” ruled business and white-collar jobs were guaranteed for life, training was a nonstop, continuous endeavor. In the United States, Europe, and especially Japan, business was reasonably predictable, economies were heavily regulated, and foreign competition was not yet a defining feature. Companies could plan. Talent was grown from within: Companies had different cultures and strategies, and their leaders believed, perhaps wrongly, that outsiders could not fit in and be useful. ...
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