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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says  Deanna Mulligan , author of the book,  Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap . In a highly personal and reflective manner, Mulligan, with  Greg Shaw , details through stories, examples, insights and frameworks, how business leaders can prepare for and respond to technological disruption.  Mulligan  is Board Chair and former CEO of the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Mulligan tackles in,  Hire Purpose , education, training, the classroom, the workplace and workers. One of my favorite learnings from the book is where she states her believe that: The primary goal of a business is to be profitable in order to compete, innovate, and provide stable jobs, but also that there are many paths to profit – and that the best o...