Tag Archives: employment

WHY WE WORK

by Josh Kimball If there’s one important thing Brad Pitt has given our culture, it’s a more nuanced understanding of human resources departments. In Moneyball, Pitt brings the scintillating tale of a Major League Baseball team’s talent management philosophy to the silver screen, explaining how organizations (and even entire institutions) can undervalue certain skills and […]

The not-so-neat problem of Britain’s “NEETS”

by Nancy Ludwig WHAT’S HAPPENING An Audit Commission survey of 16- to 18-year-olds has found that one in four of them were classed as NEETs — teenagers not in education, employment or training — between 2007 and 2009, and roughly 43% of them were NEETs for six months or more. The report calls them Britain’s […]

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