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Gig Economy workers want access to company algorithms for fair practices

HR Digest

The key is the Kafkaesque element of what it means to have an algorithm as your boss,” said Eva Blum-Dumontet, senior researcher at advocacy group Privacy International and co-author of a new report ‘Managed by Bots’, written with WIE. Courts in Europe are now taking note of algorithmic management malpractices.

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7 Tricky Work Situations, and How to Respond to Them

Harvard Business Review

Minutes or days later, a colleague or manager misrepresents your point as their own, restates it identically, and is praised and credited for making it. gives you the upper hand when addressing the matter with a manager. gives you the upper hand when addressing the matter with a manager. Katie didn’t skip a beat.

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Remembering Andy Grove, the Teacher

Harvard Business Review

Plus he had already contributed to the business literature with his best-selling book High Output Management (1983). So we decided to develop a new elective MBA course called “Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry.” Once, Eva’s mother came too. But this wasn’t true only of his mother.

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This Airbus Makes Pilots Smarter

Harvard Business Review

That’s because the systems gather performance, weather, flight path and other data and feed it over the Industrial Internet to the cloud, so that it can be crunched by software and analytical engines built and operated by GE Aviation’s Flight Efficiency Services unit. But the smarts go beyond fuel savings.

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Artificial Intelligence Is Almost Ready for Business

Harvard Business Review

That’s important for convincing managers to act on analytical insights. AI is filling this gap as it becomes ingrained in the analytics technology infrastructure in industries like health care, financial services, and travel. IBM is leading the integration of AI in industry. The Growing Use of AI. But this is a 1.0

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The Research We’ve Ignored About Happiness at Work

Harvard Business Review

And just because we have more advanced technology today doesn’t mean we’re any closer to pinning down a definition, as Will Davies reminds us in his new book The Happiness Industry. They wanted their managers to provide them with a steady stream of recognition and emotional reassurance.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Among those crown jewel TV moments were: Our Town , starring Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint. Many of them were consistently great. They were live, in real time.

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