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How Technology Impacts Employee Wellbeing

The Horizons Tracker

It’s not a narrative I necessarily subscribe to, and believe it’s far more likely that technology will complement the work humans do. That said, however, both sides of this debate tend to over-simplify things somewhat, as a recent paper from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University illustrates.

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The Evolution of the Executive, C-Suite, and Boardroom

N2Growth Blog

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Executives and Boardrooms of years gone by had radically changed, paving the way for new ideas, innovation, and equality. This was still, however, a largely ‘hush hush’ environment until 2002 when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act came into play, an act passed by U.S.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. The lack of skill development and leadership development among Generation Y affects every generation. This generation is the first to be raised in a post-industrial era driven by technology.

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The Health And Wellbeing Of Workers In The Modern Economy

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers say that due to the forces technology and economic change are imposing on the nature of work, our current models for understanding the workplace are simply not fit for purpose. So says new research from the University of Washington, which explores how important employment conditions are to our health. Healthy work.

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It’s Never Been More Lucrative to Be a Math-Loving People Person

Harvard Business Review

A recent paper from UCSB found that the return on being good at math has gone up over the last few decades, as has the return on having high social skills (some combination of leadership, communication, and other interpersonal skills). But, the paper argues, the return on the two skills together has risen even faster.

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. In fact, we think Cisco is one of the all-time best at this corporate skill. It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why.

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Manufacturing Jobs and the Rise of the Machines

Harvard Business Review

The story of how technological progress is affecting employment — whether, in other words, the robots are eating our jobs — is clearly an important one. I believe that technological unemployment (and underemployment) is a real and growing phenomenon. But who's telling it correctly?