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Automation as a Means of Increasing Human Potential: Which Traits and Skills Will Automation Help Promote in Human Workers?

Strategy Driven

That man-hour can be subtracted from a company’s balance sheet and treated as a cost savings, or it can be reassigned to a high-value task that could not, until then, be budgeted for. But the reflex to cut costs just because you can isn’t necessarily the best way to drive towards market leadership. About the Authors.

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December 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

David shares, “Debra Jason gives us the Eight Secrets for Succeeding in Business along with amazing practical advice that let you grow your business today in her book Millionaire Marketing On a Shoestring Budget. Debra shares her 25 years of building her own business and helping entrepreneurs build their businesses.”

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The False Promise of Free Capital Flows

Harvard Business Review

Economists built "general equilibrium" models that, underneath all the fancy math, just assumed markets are stable and optimal. Never quite a true believer in it, Blanchard, now chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), acknowledges the terrible damage it caused. These suggestions are just that.