In classic economics, a marriage is, at least in part, an exercise in labor specialization.
You have to be able to appreciate the variable nature of this specialization.
Your group is very diversified at a time when many investors favor specialization.
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Titles apart, I have spent over 40 years in teaching a variety of subjects, strongly resisting all forms of specialization.
Rather, as new sources of supply have arisen, new markets have opened, and companies have sought greater scale and specialization.
Mr. Rasmussen has also launched a "smart defense" initiative to encourage allies to cooperate on defense procurement and in role specialization.
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Cancer Treatment Centers of America is an example of evolution and specialization.
However, companies can take steps to give their people more general management experience, which may help them avoid the narrowness of functional specialization.
One of the mega-trends playing out over the century has been the drive for details, and with that comes increased knowledge and levels of specialization.
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As a result of this shift, career paths today are less geared towards filling the few remaining general management positions, and instead focus on functional specialization.
Girls and boys will perform similarly in earlier education settings, but once entering college, girls are less likely to choose a STEM field as their area of specialization.
All I am advocating is more humility, and more specialization.
What we are saying is that successful companies have gone beyond the old Adam Smith doctrine that says: creating more wealth follows on from creating more specialization.
The solution that the medical profession has favored is specialization.
Free trade is the happy process that allows us to acquire as much as possible for as little as possible, all the while boosting our individual economic specialization.
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The theory goes back to Smith's pin factory and specialization.
Our research shows a rapid increase in workforce specialization.
There are non-intuitive arguments that outsourcing is good for Americans due to the importance of a dynamic economy, the lower costs of goods and services, and the usual gains from trade and specialization.
This is a simple matter of specialization.
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But all are working on extreme specialization.
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We now know that at a certain point specialization creates unacceptable overheads.
Contrary to what you hear from a dying traditional media, job destruction driven by technological advancement is the path to more specialized work, and with specialization, higher wages.
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In fact, to the extent that more education means more specialization of the U.S. workforce, it is helpful to have access to have flexible and dynamic foreign labor markets.
This is a dramatic development, allowing businesses to tap into great human talent and specialization wherever it may reside.
There are, of course, many other areas of specialization you can focus on.
Knaysi has practiced medicine for about the same number of years, but he says his experience is somewhat different because he works in a private practice and because of his specialization as a surgical oncologist.
Liberal arts students are not confined to one specific area of specialization like the areas McCrory prefers.
Now, I know some career coaches and job counselors will come in and say specialization is the way to go.
Develop the kind of product category specialization that drove success at Walmart.
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