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Automation as a Means of Increasing Human Potential: Which Traits and Skills Will Automation Help Promote in Human Workers?

Strategy Driven

In the case of the machine operator, manual labor and routine tasks are most likely to be automated, while management, team-building, employee training and production supervision may now find themselves moved into priority roles. Cutting costs and trimming fat in ways that ultimately help companies perform better are always wins.

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The Future of Our Partnership With Machines

Skip Prichard

I recently spoke with Olivier Blanchard, one of the co-authors. ” -Olivier Blanchard. It doesn’t matter if you are working in a package sorting center or a marketing department.) To some degree, I feel that education and training are now very different tracks – equally important, but separate from one another.

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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. The problem here is that the responsibility is conventionally assigned to the direct supervisors of employees.

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Servant Leadership is True Leadership (and How You Can Do It)

Mark Sanborn

Do young employees buy into “we want to do good and change the world” as sincere or do they see it as phony cause marketing, more about being profitable than truly doing good. My friend Charlie “Tremendous” Jones had a huge influence on my life (and I wrote about him in Servant Leadership by Ken Blanchard et al).

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Get Your Passion Project Moving Without Quitting Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research? Seek out training opportunities to help you develop the skills you need for your project. Kate Blanchard had a great job at PerkinElmer, the Massachusetts-based multinational, but she was eager to build something of her own. For instance, can you hire someone to help you code?