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How To Manage An Empowered Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

Altman provides some interesting thoughts in a pretty crowded field around what managers should be aspiring towards. It marks the latest step in a transformation of managerial roles that also include the rise in external workers, the mass introduction of millennials into the workplace, and the need to change and evolve at extreme speed.

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Ditch ‘Change Fatigue’ and Embrace Continual Evolution

Center for Creative Leadership

David Altman, our COO, argues for giving leaders and employees a short, sharp shock: In effect, “If you think change is constant now, then you ain’t seen nothing yet.”. What leaders must do is to help employees and managers to recalibrate their expectations,” Altman argues. Becoming Resilient in the Face of Change.

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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2011

Leading Blog

Practically Radical : Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself by William C. Outrageous Fortunes : The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy by Daniel Altman. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January. Hill and Kent L.

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Doomsday Predictions Around ChatGPT Are Counter-Productive

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, OpenAI chief Sam Altman recently declared that he was “a little bit scared”, with the sentiment shared by OpenAI’s chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who recently said that “at some point it will be quite easy, if one wanted, to cause a great deal of harm”. job market.

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Is OpenAI Solving the Wrong Problem?

Harvard Business Review

Late last week, OpenAI was announced — a non-profit artificial intelligence research company, backed by a set of tech-industry stars that include Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Sam Altman, and Peter Thiel. (As As well as some funding from Amazon Web Services.)

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If You Think Downsizing Might Save Your Company, Think Again

Harvard Business Review

These firms spanned 83 different industries, including the service, high technology, and manufacturing industries. We also accounted for the number of acquisitions in the previous five years (since downsizing often occurs after acquisitions) and industry differences.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

Reply louise altman November 23, 2010 at 12:43 am Hi Gwyn, What a great post! We seem to be hanging onto the models of thinking and practices of the industrial age for dear life! Reply Gwyn Teatro November 23, 2010 at 11:53 pm Susan, Yes, the management principles of the Industrial Age are, if nothing else, remarkably tenacious.