Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. John Fedele/Getty Images. These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

First, private citizens, particularly younger people, are choosing different types of career paths. 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.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. Let’s consider a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. The parallels with business are clear: Stars are a crucial but perhaps fragile source of innovation and competitive advantage. Use simple, off-the-shelf tools to make collaboration smoother.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 5, 2023

In The Technology Trap, Oxford academic Carl Benedikt Frey argues that mobility is a valuable hedge against the rise of automation as it allows people to move to where jobs exist should their livelihoods be disrupted. Obviously, there are various barriers to such mobility, such as housing and transport scarcity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. If you could give your younger self one piece of career advice, what would it be? Clippers for $2 billion. We want to win.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? and has studied emerging business and technology trends. While they are focused on optimization, their shareholders continue to demand that they pay out greater dividends or engage in larger share buy backs instead of investing their profits for future innovation.

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