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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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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

Gordon Berridge: Our readers, with mining knowledge, will be will be familiar with the name Sam Walsh and Rio Tinto, but to provide a complete sketch of your background, would you please share a brief summary of your career history? I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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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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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. How do you avoid your applications getting tossed by HR or automated filters?

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Morning Advantage: A Serious Attempt at "Pay What You Want"

Harvard Business Review

Despite their families’ insistence that their idea was a little off-the-wall, Susan Walvius and Michelle Marciniak quit their successful coaching careers to found Sheex, a company that manufactures bedsheets made from the same synthetic poly-spandex fabric used in athletic apparel by brands such as Under Armour.

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The Great Leap Generation F Needs to Make

Harvard Business Review

And that’s before we even talk about fixing our aging healthcare, transport, energy, and education systems; that’s before we even get into investing in new stuff we need that we don’t have. We can’t get jobs—much less careers. Not to mention the massive debts so kindly passed on to us by bailed-out bankers. Think again.

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We Took a Vote. You're Fired.

Harvard Business Review

growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. Reuters reporter Axel Threlfall says he finds it hard to believe the bankers when they say they were attracted to the industry as much by career opportunities and the prospect of interesting work as the salaries. I guess it’s all in how you define “interesting work.” — Andrea Ovans.