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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

Work is being disaggregated into tasks that can be dispersed inside and outside of the organization — the “uberization” of work. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work.

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

Harvard Business Review

More nuanced analysis points to a less dystopian future where a great number of activities within jobs will be undertaken by intelligent systems rather than humans. This is the reason airlines invest in elongated career paths for pilots.

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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. Boeing refers to its global "value webs," an approach that turns managers into systems integrators. I recently bought an iPad. After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard.