Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 21, 2010

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. Gladwell will challenge your thinking of why some succeed in life and others may not.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right Mary C. Gentile Yale University Press; First Edition (August 24, 2010) How to express your values more eloquently and act upon them more effectively As I began to read this brilliant book, I was reminded of James O’Toole’s contribution to a [.].

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since Frey and Osborne’s hugely popular paper in 2014, the traditional narrative surrounding automation at work has been that millions of jobs will be lost to the march of technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence. Highly-skilled professionals are very good at what they do, better than their managers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

First, few people get training in how to be creative in their education. Unfortunately, quite a bit of research demonstrates that the traditional brainstorming methods first described by Alex Osborn in the 1950’s fail. There are two reasons most of us aren’t very good at creative problem solving.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about where creativity comes from and how to nurture and grow it in a team. Researchers have developed a variety of different models of creativity, from the Osborn-Parnes creative problem-solving method to design thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

It has also has inspired scholarship by academics such as Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford University, who estimate that 47% of occupations in the United States could be automated within 20 years, and David Autor of MIT, who argues that the ability of machines to take on human jobs is vastly overstated.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. Management’s challenge is to figure out how to capture the benefits of digitization, while minimizing the costs – and making sure those costs are shared and not borne disproportionately by one group.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 22, 2015

Accepting the reality of pervasive pain, he explained, leads to more realistic expectations and faster times: “Knowing how to accept [the reality of the pain] allows people to improve their performance.”. “It never gets easier” as your time improves. You hurt just as much.” pagewanted=all&_r=0.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Auckland Transport, the agency responsible for helping people move around the city safely and efficiently, worked with Microsoft Digital to better understand how to plan for population growth. With growth comes traffic, and already Auckland’s existing transportation infrastructure is struggling to cope.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

The most widely used method to spark group creativity is brainstorming, a technique first introduced by Alex Osborn, a real life “Mad Man,” in the 1950s. Osborn famously claimed that brainstorming should enhance creative performance by almost 50% versus individuals working on their own. How to make them more productive.

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