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This is Critical to Building an Agile, Change Adaptive Organization

The Practical Leader

” That’s a key conclusion of a major study by Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and the Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute. Find ways to manage chronic uncertainty. “Workers are more adaptive and optimistic about the future than their leaders recognize.”

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? As BCG’s founder, Bruce Henderson, once stated , “The first definition of a problem is inescapably intuitive.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

Research by one of us (James) links this trend to software. That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers. Most industries in the U.S. That’s not how Vox Media does it.