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Are We Really Prepared for a More Automated Future?

Lead Change Blog

There have been some really great reads on the topic ranging from the 2011 ebook, Race Against the Machine by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson out of MIT, to the recent LinkedIn post, What Happens When Millions of Jobs Are Lost Because of Automation? Why is the at-large education system failing our youth when it comes to automation?

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Bringing Science To Summer

The Horizons Tracker

Countries around the world have made a concerted effort to try and encourage more young people to take an interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), with an understandable belief that these topics are vital for the competitive edge of a modern economy.

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Leadership Development and Educating our Young Think back to when you began your school years. Women Leaders and Male Partnership In any learning process, there is a tendency to go.

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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

Engines of creation. Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. This gummed-up process of innovation is not confined to big-company transformation. This is at the same time as the share taken up by big firms grew from 51% to 57%. in 1985 to 5.3%

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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

Even though women are more educated than men (for OECD countries 74 percent of women successfully complete upper secondary programs versus 66 for men), the corporate world is still a male-dominated stronghold. But let’s go further on education. computer software engineer and computer programmer positions.

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Five Great Ways to Earn Extra Money in 2010 :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers. Some will take unsolicited articles, many will give assignments to freelancers.

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The Last Shuttle Mission Is Safely Home! - Now Some Recommendations

Building Personal Strength

On July 8, 2011, when the space shuttle Atlantis launched safely for the last time, I reflected on "What next?" I'm not talking about "trickle-down technologies." That's an awfully expensive and unpredictable way to create beneficial technologies, don't you think? Copyright 2011. Remember the lunar missions? Coates, Ph.D.,

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