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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

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What British, European, and American Policymakers Need to Do Now

Harvard Business Review

This changes the balance of politics in Europe, the balance of politics towards the US, the balance of policies about regulation in a whole variety of industries and trade. So there are a lot of long-term, constitutional policy issues that it’s going to take a lot of work to offset, set in motion by this.

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Resolving the Paradox of Group Creativity

Harvard Business Review

So when you’re managing a team or working in a group, what can you do to help foster creative thinking? When advertising executive Alex Osborn popularized brainstorming in the 1953 book Applied Imagination, he predicted that it would double the number of ideas that a group of people would generate in response to a problem or challenge.

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“Government Entrepreneur” is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

In fact, it’s from Stevenson’s list of pressures that pull managers away from entrepreneurship and towards administration. Public entrepreneurship is not simply innovation in the public sector (though it makes use of innovation), and it’s not just policy reform (though it can help drive reform). Of course, that’s not all bad.