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Work Needs To Be Re-Designed To Allow Man And Machine To Work Together

The Horizons Tracker

Despite minimal evidence of technological redundancies since the famous paper on the topic by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne in 2013, fears have barely abated in the intervening years.

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There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. | Rich Gee Group

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On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.” – Adam Osborne Get Shareaholic Tagged as: Dean Harris , Free Lunch , Milton Friedman , Ripon College , Working Hard { 1 comment… read it below or add one } Joe Bestul 01.08.11 at 1:03 PM Rich – Great entry. Unported License.

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Yes, You Can Brainstorm Without Groupthink

Harvard Business Review

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". In her NYT piece and in an HBR ideacast , Susan Cain points out that the popular view — "Lone geniuses are out.

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3 Ways Leaders Accidentally Undermine Their Teams’ Creativity

Harvard Business Review

Here are three of the most common things managers do that have deleterious effects: 1. Researchers have developed a variety of different models of creativity, from the Osborn-Parnes creative problem-solving method to design thinking. Indeed, these accidental creativity killers actually seem positive on the surface.

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How Many of Your Daily Tasks Could Be Automated?

Harvard Business Review

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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Technology Isn’t Destroying Jobs, But Is Increasing Inequality

The Horizons Tracker

Whilst the likes of the Frey and Osborne paper predicted a pretty widespread demolition of 47% of all jobs, the reality is that those with low-skilled, routine jobs are far more at risk. This is common with most new technologies, as it tends to improve the relative position of skilled workers.