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The Threat of Workplace Automation in Future

HR Digest

John Maynard Keynes warned in 1930 “about the new scourge of technological unemployment”, which he termed as “unemployment due to our discovery of means of economizing the use of labor outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labor.” In short, out jobbing ourselves. So how might we deal with this version of the future? .

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Preventing Another Bangladesh Tragedy: Three Ways to Transform Supply Chain Ethics

Harvard Business Review

So here are three radical suggestions for transforming the field of supply chain ethics. We already have complex systems for ensuring that some products get marked with country of origin; some firms are taking voluntary steps to reveal where stuff comes from in detail and down to the micro-level of batch, plant, and date.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business Review

In addition, they need the ability to switch to manually controlled environments in case artificially intelligent systems have to be shut down and to recall faulty smart products. AI Insurance Products and Services. Contingency plans must go beyond a natural disaster playbook. AI International Protocols.

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

In the quest to improve productivity and work life, the information that companies can analyze about you at work is limited only by software. They sent those customers ads for pregnancy related products. What could be wrong with helping pregnant women be aware of products or services they need, as early as possible?

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What Inexperienced Leaders Get Wrong (Hint: Management)

Harvard Business Review

Not just those under attack for ethical lapses, accounting problems, or excessive compensation – retired college presidents are the latest to join corporate executives in the latter category. There are an awful lot of leaders in trouble these days. The trouble I’m referring to is getting new ideas implemented and brought to scale.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Cisco now sells mostly commoditized products.

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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Harvard Business Review

Many activities in the social sphere also generate lots of information. The more we use technology in our education and health systems, the more data we collect about how people learn and what keeps us healthy or makes us sick. Massive amounts of data are collected on the pollution in our cities and the changes in our climate.