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How’s Your Workforce IQ?

Lifelong learning has advanced from a nice-to-have to a business essential, write the authors of Workforce Crisis. Their book examines the business implications of trends in the pool of current and future employees. Here’s an excerpt.

One of the largest companies in the oil and gas industry, BP LLP (formerly British Petroleum) is a federation of financially successful business units with over 100,000 employees. As BP’s corporate leadership knows, size matters only if BP can leverage its knowledge of technology, customer relationships, and business methods across the company—without interfering with business unit autonomy. To promote such knowledge sharing behaviors, BP implemented three explicit "peer processes":

by Ken Dychtwald, Tamara J. Erickson, and Robert Morison

Full Story: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5280&t=organizations&iss=y

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