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There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.” – Adam Osborne Get Shareaholic Tagged as: Dean Harris , Free Lunch , Milton Friedman , Ripon College , Working Hard { 1 comment… read it below or add one } Joe Bestul 01.08.11 How To Pick Yourself Up After You Fail. How To Make Wonderful Mistakes.

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Avoiding The Technology Trap In The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so.

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My Top 5 Books This Year – Book Giveaway | Ron Edmondson

Ron Edmondson

Sticky Teams by Larry Osborne – I had the opportunity to spend some time with this author this year and I can’t believe I had not been closely following his work previously. This book is full of nuggets of how to make teams work well. Gladwell will challenge your thinking of why some succeed in life and others may not.

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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

Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk. For example, we are only beginning to understand digitization’s effects on unemployment.