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Doomsday Predictions Around ChatGPT Are Counter-Productive

The Horizons Tracker

Goldman Sachs predicted 300 million jobs would be lost, while the likes of Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk asked for AI development to be paused (although pointedly not the development of autonomous driving). It is difficult to underestimate the importance of self-efficacy in personal development.

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Why The Robots Might Not Be Taking Our Jobs After All

The Horizons Tracker

The paper takes particular aim at the famous Frey & Osborne paper that has spawned so many of the dire predictions, both in terms of the methodology used when making the predictions, and the evidence to date in the six years since the research was published. Exaggerated expectations.

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There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Establish A Contract With Your Team. “ There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.&# I’m shocked.

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Automation, COVID, And The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market.

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Your Team Is Brainstorming All Wrong

Harvard Business Review

When your team is tasked with generating ideas to solve a problem, suggesting a brainstorming session is a natural reaction. Although the term “brainstorming” is now used as a generic term for having groups develop ideas, it began as the name of a specific technique proposed by advertising executive Alex Osborn in the 1950s.

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Avoiding The Technology Trap In The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so. I was understandably curious therefore to see if Technology at Work 4.0 addressed this crucial area any better.

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My Top 5 Books This Year – Book Giveaway | Ron Edmondson

Ron Edmondson

Sticky Teams by Larry Osborne – I had the opportunity to spend some time with this author this year and I can’t believe I had not been closely following his work previously. This book is full of nuggets of how to make teams work well.