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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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? When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Let’s consider a few examples.

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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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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

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. Pair a technology whiz with any employee who needs support with the tools; a personal relationship makes the uptake much likelier than expecting someone to learn on their own or to rely on the IT hotline.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2014

As for risk, in my career I have worked for four large and stable media companies (stable when I worked there at least, except for my last few years at Time Inc.) Maybe Halfteck would have gotten that hedge fund job, and never started a company. Hiring Information & technology Job search' And what if every employer used them?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

They paid their executives accordingly, as did the banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds, and private-equity outfits whose share of U.S Consultants by definition spend most of their careers as outsiders, guns hired from afar to help clients shoot at problems. Was it only ten years ago that the profits of the top 10 U.S.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There are many explanations for growing inequality and stagnant wages, but studies have found that so-called “skills premiums” — higher wages for more-skilled workers — have been a significant factor in growing income inequality, and technology is the reason why that premium has risen.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

and has studied emerging business and technology trends. 3) hedge bets by building products and services on multiple platforms in order to compete on the same terms as digital giants in ways that are least likely to get regulated. What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? What role do you see AI playing?

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