How Businesses Can Keep Up With Global Progress

March 1, 2017

Disillusionment is one word that could be used to describe the mindset of Americans regarding the workforce. It was made apparent in the results of the recent election and has been noted by the new administration as it attempts to restore jobs lost due to a changing global economy.

In recent years, the promise of global progress has become a hot button issue. Globalization and technology have fueled economic growth, yet the toll on the workforce has become apparent. It’s a given that these two factors of Structural Unemployment cannot be reversed, so the challenge is creating opportunities from the third factor, education. How can companies help workers acquire the skills needed to adapt to the new landscape?

WorkingNation advisory board member Martin Reeves and Johann Harnoss, from Boston Consulting Group’s New York office and the BCG Henderson Institute, explain in their article for the Harvard Business Review, An Agenda for the Future of Global Business, that business leaders, along with the companies they lead, need to take an active stance to shape the conditions for future success, rather than merely reacting to twists in the plot.

In order to do this, they need a new leadership agenda. To help with this, Reeves and Harnoss detail seven areas of opportunity that will help companies “shape the future, both for the direction of our societies and for the sharing of benefits and opportunity within them.”

Martin Reeves is a senior partner and managing director in the Boston Consulting Group’s New York office and the director of the BCG Henderson Institute. You may contact him by e-mail at [email protected] and follow him at @MartinKReeves.

Johann Harnoss is a project leader in Boston Consulting Group’s New York office and an ambassador to the BCG Henderson Institute. You may contact him by e-mail at [email protected] or follow him at @Johann_Harnoss.

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Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.

Ardi is an expert on the multi-generational workforce. She understands the four intersecting generations of workers coming together in contemporary companies, each with their own mindsets, leadership and communications styles, values and motivations. Ardi is sought after to assist companies manage and thrive by bringing the generations together. Her book, Fall of the Alphas: How Beta Leaders Win Through Connection, Collaboration and Influence, will be published by St. Martin’s Press. The book reflects Ardi’s deep expertise in understanding organizations and our changing society. It focuses on building a winning culture, how companies must grow and evolve, and how talent influences and shapes communities of work. This is what she has coined “Corporate Anthropology.” It is a playbook on how modern companies must meet challenges – culturally, globally, digitally, across genders and generations.

Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.

Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.

Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.