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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

Return on Improved Performance (ROIP) – similar to Return on Investment – measures the value of improved performance in a given position (i.e., This is the reason airlines invest in elongated career paths for pilots. Significant investment also takes place in cockpit technology as well as in training and development (e.g.,

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Who Wins in the Gig Economy, and Who Loses

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated from jobs and reorganized into a variety of alternative arrangements, such as consulting projects, freelance assignments, and contract opportunities. All of that is changing. Entrepreneurial workers also win. The gig economy rewards hustle.

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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

A disaggregated laptop that is lighter and more versatile, since I can use the screen by itself as an e-reader and the keyboard with other devices. Forget the titles on the org charts and the advertised positions. I recently bought an iPad. After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard.