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Three Signs That You Should Kill an Innovative Idea

Harvard Business Review

For example, a retailer found that automating how it would send coordinated digital alerts to its suppliers and distribution centers was much easier than expected. ” Simply hitting benchmarks and milestones affirming that everything’s copacetic is complacency. No real learning was going on. That’s dangerous.

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45 Career Advice Experts Offer Career Success Secrets

Miles Anthony Smith

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. Set career goals and understand salary benchmarks. This will keep you competitive and relevant.

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A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

For example we might reasonably be uncomfortable denying welfare to someone who was eligible at the time they applied just because we predict they have a high likelihood to fail to abide by the program’s job-search requirements or fail a drug test in the future. We instead need tools for causation, like randomized experiments.