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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

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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Four Keys to Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

The rhymes may be about social patterns, the impact of technology, or how nations tend to adapt. Training in emotional intelligence is life-long work, and most of us need as many tutors as possible. Curiosity keeps us learning and helps us, like the virtue of patience, to see the hidden, or understand the unexplained.