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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Creating such a culture of learning is something Shelley Osborne, Vice President of Learning at Udemy suggests needs five steps to be undertaken in her latest book The Upskilling Imperative. It’s only in such cultures that the kind of candid feedback that is such a crucial part of learning can be achieved.

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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. At risk (kind of). Department of Commerce, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S.

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Automation, COVID, And The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market.

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Research: Technology Is Only Making Social Skills More Important

Harvard Business Review

Osborne, researchers at the Oxford Martin School, published a paper estimating that 47% of all U.S. Deming studied changes in work tasks using data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a survey conducted by the U.S. Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

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The Power of Tenacity By Samuel R. Chand

Ron Edmondson

A major survey of pastors says 80 percent leave the ministry within five years.(1) Wayne Cordiero with Frances Chan and Larry Osborne, Sifted: Pursuing Growth Through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2012), 10. The statistics on the longevity of pastors isn’t encouraging. pagewanted=all&_r=0.

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The Best Data Scientists Get Out and Talk to People

Harvard Business Review

Treat Osborn’s Law — “variables won’t; constants aren’t” — as your watchword. Measurement instruments get clogged with sand, pollsters don’t follow their scripts, and survey developers inadvertently design their instruments in ways that bias results.