In business, especially in the Board Room, people have less time for formal academic or classroom learning and achieve most of their learning through experience. Learning from your own experience often involves making mistakes because it is through getting things wrong that we learn the strongest, most enduring lessons. The disadvantage of learning only from […]
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Balancing age (and wisdom) in the team by Brian Chernett
The age profile of the workforce is changing. An article in the Guardian on Thursday 16 September notes that the “latest estimates that a third of UK workers will be over 50 in 2020”. A recent survey by the CIPD and the CMI called “Managing an Ageing Workforce” produced some interesting statistics on attitudes to […]