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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

In no particular order, these six technologies are: Artificial Intelligence (AI): Rather than needing to be programmed to solve problems, AI learns from examples. It creates its own rules based on training data. Sensors are used to make products, infrastructure, and environments, more intelligent and more responsive to human needs.

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Preparing for Re-entry into the Physical Workplace: Lessons from NASA

Michael Lee Stallard

Today, with the International Space Station in operation and anticipation of a multi-year human mission into deep space, protecting astronauts from the negative effects of disconnection and isolation has become an issue of greater interest to NASA scientists. I should’ve eased into it.”.

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How Effective is Your Communication?

Great Leadership By Dan

Communication is a basic human need. Interacting with other humans has been the core of human progress throughout the ages. Isolation and lack of human interaction will emotionally, mentally, and physically debilitate a person; as will ineffective conversations.

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Future is Here: How Metaverse Becomes the Part of HR Technology

HR Digest

With the rise of AI and Big Data , companies are starting to adopt these technologies to improve their operations. Humans, people, and workers do not naturally engage in this manner all of the time. For training and simulations, employees may interact with 3D models. What does this mean for the future of the company? Conclusion.

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Navigator Newsletter #180

Chart Your Course

By hiring the right people, they reduce turnover, training costs and insure their team of Zapponians stay motivated and passionate about what they do. According to their human resource department, it is harder to get a job at Zappos than to be accepted at Harvard Business School. People have a basic human need to feel appreciated.

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Why Even AI-Powered Factories Will Have Jobs for Humans

Harvard Business Review

Dubbed the “Alien Dreadnought,” Tesla’s new manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, was designed to be fully automated — no humans need apply. The company has also hired hundreds of workers to revamp production processes, train (and retrain) the robots, and swap them out when needed, among other tasks.

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

As Edgar Schein notes in this volume, leaders will need to effectively involve others and elicit participation “because tasks will be too complex and information too widely distributed for leaders to solve problems on their own.” A classic example was the old Bell System.

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