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To Build Your Resilience, Ask Yourself Two Simple Questions

Harvard Business Review

Her team had found ingenious ways to shave costs and innovative ways to add value for the client. Failure is sometimes lauded as a key to successful innovation, but it takes a psychic toll on the manager. A major contract, one that her firm had spent months preparing for, had gone to a competitor. She had worked hard on it.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

This problem of extending the automatic reasoning of AI systems to understand the context of their decisions is highly complex, and creative innovation, like the one at Google, is usually needed to push the effort forward. So, a physical extension of the computing/sensing system — a laser range finder — was added.

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