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Fusing Artificial Intelligence and Learning & Development

Experience to Lead

For an introduction to Artificial Intelligence and its ethical considerations within the business context, read the first article here. As AI rapidly grows more sophisticated, building new skills and competencies through L&D will become even more important for human workers and organizations alike.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Power Generation: Husk Power Systems (HPS) creates small-scale power generation in rural communities in India by converting rice husks (a commonly available agricultural byproduct) into energy. They developed a system to insert these messages into normal data traffic and measure the response through South Africa's National AIDS Helpline.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

The combination has created the industry’s first wireless, discrete, and switchable remote system, and has provided physicians and patients with real-time monitoring and predictive analytics that have been shown to reduce readmission rates for cardiovascular patients. Experimentation is vital.

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March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

by Tanmay Vora at QAspire Blog touches upon Alfie Kohn’s work and questions if external reward systems help in tapping the intrinsic motivation of people. She says, “As our work becomes more complex, so do our ethical dilemmas.” Linda Fisher Thornton of Leading in Context Blog addresses the challenges of complexity.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Core Business. Enron (like many other companies) got into areas beyond their core competencies. The Auditing Firm Employed by Enron.