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Real assets walk out the door every day.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 29-MAR-04 		Format: Online - approximately 824 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Real assets walk out the door every day.(As I See It)

Article Excerpt
As Mississippi moves from a work-based to a knowledge-based economy, employee training and development becomes ever more important.

In years gone by the physical plant and equipment were the assets to be guarded. Now, increasingly, our most valuable assets walk out the door at five o'clock every day.

Though the workers leave the machines and computers behind when they go home, they take the experience and skill-sets with them. If they don't come back, we're in deep trouble.

Long gone are the days when a worker could be trained to do most jobs in a matter of a few minutes or hours. Increasingly, weeks or months of training are required to keep the factory or office humming along.

What does this shift...

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