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Resolving the Paradox of Group Creativity

Harvard Business Review

These two intrinsic, human drives operate in opposite directions, with our sense of group membership encouraging cognitive processes similar to other group members and undermining the motivation to think uniquely — that is, undermining creativity itself.

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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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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

As reported in our recent HBR article “60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed,” each scored highly on our Digital Evolution Index; with the exception of South Korea, each is also in a state of high digital momentum. Each is a highly evolved digital player. These strengths show in the benchmarking analyses above.