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Collaborate Instead of Competing With Gen Z in the Workplace

HR Digest

Technological Understanding A quick survey of Gen Z in your workplace might show you that the group is the most adept at understanding and picking up on technology overall. While millennials are just as familiar with technology, the ease of adoption is much more fast-paced with the Gen Z workforce.

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James Bond, Dunder Mifflin, and the Future of Product Placement

Harvard Business Review

Audiences are increasingly skeptical. Product placement can also lower audiences’ evaluations of the focal entertainment product (the film or the show), as recently demonstrated by Andre Marchand and colleagues. And it’s particularly true when audiences like the film or show. Research by Eva A.

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The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great

Leading Blog

N EW TECHNOLOGIES are shifting the way we work and interact. Jobs are being eliminated, and industries are being disrupted as we try to come to grips with how this technology is changing us and how we can use it. The thing to keep in mind is that machines are machines and we are human.

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How to Memorably Introduce Another Speaker

Harvard Business Review

In other words, a memorable introduction is like a commercial: it should engage and persuade the audience to listen to the speaker. Embrace mystery: Start by framing a challenging problem that is relevant to this audience, that isn’t easily resolved, and that the speaker will be addressing. Chris Anderson.

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How the Next Generation Is Approaching Society’s Biggest Problems

Harvard Business Review

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible. Distributing content over the Internet is also inexpensive, while reaching a potential audience of billions.

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Tronc vs. the Right Way for Publishers to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Good reporting takes time and relationships, so it can’t be effectively automated — though it can be empowered by digital technology. You achieve excellence not through James Bond–style gadgetry but through relentlessly executing on your fundamental skills. The audience is vastly more than eyeballs.

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How Do Consumers Choose in a World of Automated Ordering?

Harvard Business Review

The term “frictionless commerce” is widely used to describe how digital technologies are blending product purchases seamlessly into consumers’ daily lives. Frictionless commerce will test the emotional bonds that make consumers loyal to established brands. Image Source/Getty Images.