The Factory Effect: What L&T Got Right About Sharing Skills That Most Professionals Get Wrong
L&T trained 300,000 underprivileged workers for free — then let them work for competitors. The Factory Effect shows why knowledge generosity, not hoarding, is the real career and business edge in India.
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