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Are We Really Prepared for a More Automated Future?

Lead Change Blog

education system for focusing on teaching skills that will effectively be automated in the future. Each of these technologies – typically advanced by a market innovator and not necessarily the technology inventor – changed the landscape of jobs in this country. by Jeff Selingo. Because of its resistance to change, of course.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills. Target predicts customer pregnancy in order to market relevant products accordingly. Marketing casts a wide net—"junk mail" is marketing money wasted and trees felled to print unread brochures. The system grades as accurately as human graders.

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

Next, if the person was skilled and/or lucky, more promotions followed until he or she eventually became an executive who could tell lots of people what to do. A classic example of a new-world organization is AT&T Wireless Services (formerly McCaw Cellular Communications); which AT&T paid twelve billion dollars to acquire.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) How to Emulate the Most Innovative Leaders.

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Tinkering with Strategy Can Derail Midsize Companies

Harvard Business Review

The new president thought Cellairis should not only sell accessories, it should sell wireless phone service as well. People shopping for cell phone cases were natural customers for a wireless service provider. It stiffed Cellairis and the wireless providers whose services it resold. Nothing more than a tweak, they thought.

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3 Kinds of Jobs That Will Thrive as Automation Advances

Harvard Business Review

And it’s not just low skilled, manual labor that’s at risk — “knowledge” work like operational analytics and marketing is also being taken over by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. How Technology Is Reshaping Markets. So, what’s the result?

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How Mobile Technologies Are Shaping a New Generation

Harvard Business Review

This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. And as the smartphone market continues to explode, more parents are passing their phones to their offspring as tools to educate or gadgets to pacify. Wireless communication. Mobile technology. In November 2001, U.S. hours a day.