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The increased movement of players across borders has already contributed to a convergence among countries’ skill levels, reflected in the declining dominance of traditional powerhouses like Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
First, Petrobras and Prominp develop a five-year personnel projection in specific skill areas, such as shipyard welding, pipefitting, and petroleum engineering.
And, thanks to the rest of us who don’t have the time, information, and skill to match wits with them, they are mostly right.
For the sake of its success, is it really too much to ask of the US that it play its part internationally with a bit more skill and professionalism, and that it treat its partners with respect?
This implies weak growth and widening inequality, a combination that could further undermine education and skill levels.
True employee ownership, with effective employee participation in governance, has generally met long-term success only where there is substantial homogeneity of interest among the employees involved: the employees who participate in ownership commonly do similar work within the firm, have similar kinds and levels of skill, and exercise little hierarchical authority over each other.
But Lula’s popularity reflects his political skill as much as the success of his social and economic program.
The problem is compounded by the fact that most governments (the US is a stark case) are chronically underinvesting in long-term education, skill training, and infrastructure.
Austerity reduced the number of employed workers, particularly those with low skill and productivity levels.
And access to high-paid jobs is likely to be determined not by absolute skill level, but by relative skill in a winner-take-all world.
If Latin America’s companies are to compete effectively with those based in developed or emerging economies, the region must urgently remedy this, by raising the skill level of its workforce.
In fact, for all his skill and credibility, Rudd was always at best a fairly long-shot candidate.
In celebrating Greece’s “clean exit,” while retaining its iron grip on the Greek government and withholding debt restructuring, Europe’s establishment is once again displaying its skill at inventing neologisms.
Someone like George H. W. Bush, unable to articulate a vision but able to steer successfully through crises, turns out to be a better leader than someone like his son, possessed of a powerful vision but with little contextual intelligence or management skill.
But even in more recent years, the skill content in China’s output has improved radically, and resources have been successfully transferred from agriculture to the services sector, rather than to the manufacturing sector, where large state-owned firms still dominate many industries.
Multinational firms have access to abundant global supplies of relatively low-cost labor in multiple skill categories, so there is not much payoff to investments that increase labor productivity in high-income countries’ tradable sectors.
For example, governments could use individual skill accounts to provide training grants throughout people’s working lives, conditional on stronger private-sector involvement in training and skills development.
The game of hazard which he plays is furnished with many zeros,” which represent “the increment [by which] the world’s wealth has fallen short of...savings,” owing to “the losses of those whose courage and initiative have not been supplemented by exceptional skill or unusual good fortune.
But if effective demand is adequate, average skill and average good fortune will be enough.”
When a high-profile consumer company, one built on confidence and specialized skill, breaches the public’s trust, the damage is enormous.
Indeed, they remain so distracted by Trump’s apparent lack of leadership skill and even mental capacity – which, to be sure, cannot compare to that displayed by Thatcher – that they have yet to grasp the depth of the divisions and neuroses that Trump has exposed.
Policymakers showed great courage and skill in acting after the Lehman catastrophe.
In answering this question, it quickly becomes clear that immigration is a highly varied phenomenon, depending as it does on a diversity of factors such as nationality, skill level, intended duration abroad, and motivation.
Access to education is essential, but Africa requires a curriculum that emphasizes skill formation and nurtures entrepreneurship.
It will take skill – as well as political courage – for the Fed to avoid the rise in inflation that the existing liquidity has created.
In my book The Powers to Lead , I call this skill “contextual intelligence.”
Consequently, learning to analyze situations and contexts is an important leadership skill.
They remain at the service of socio-economic systems in which personal relationships matter more than qualifications and skill, in which positions are doled out on the basis of loyalty, not merit.
That will not sit well with Turkey – or, most likely, with Iran – which is why resolving the Kurdish question will require a large investment of diplomatic skill and commitment by the West, the international community, and the countries in question.
In the United States, the average earnings premium received by those with four-year college degrees over those with no college has gone from 30% to 90% over the past three decades, as the economy’s skill requirements have outstripped the educational system’s ability to meet them.
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