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Carnival of HR: July Edition!

Surviving Leadership

Acacia HR Solutions CEO Sabrina Baker warns against approaching leadership development as a checkbox activity versus a commitment to the growth of their employees. Also from UDemy for Business, Shelley Osborne , Head of L&D, shares tips on how to apply Agile development techniques to learning & development processes.

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Yes, You Can Brainstorm Without Groupthink

Harvard Business Review

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". Anyone, alone or with other people if they need or want help, can pick any idea and develop it further.

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Your Team Is Brainstorming All Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Although the term “brainstorming” is now used as a generic term for having groups develop ideas, it began as the name of a specific technique proposed by advertising executive Alex Osborn in the 1950s. As a result, even people high in need for closure are forced to wait until the ideas are developed. Related Video.

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3 Ways Leaders Accidentally Undermine Their Teams’ Creativity

Harvard Business Review

Here are three of the most common things managers do that have deleterious effects: 1. Researchers have developed a variety of different models of creativity, from the Osborn-Parnes creative problem-solving method to design thinking. Spending too much time on brainstorming. Boost your group’s performance.

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How Many of Your Daily Tasks Could Be Automated?

Harvard Business Review

It has also has inspired scholarship by academics such as Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford University, who estimate that 47% of occupations in the United States could be automated within 20 years, and David Autor of MIT, who argues that the ability of machines to take on human jobs is vastly overstated.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

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The Best Data Scientists Get Out and Talk to People

Harvard Business Review

Great data scientists conduct such analyses to develop a wider perspective. Treat Osborn’s Law — “variables won’t; constants aren’t” — as your watchword. Seek out veterans and managers who will make time to explain the business. First, see how the data is actually collected.