The headlines about today’s labor market are screaming for change and disruption in the recruiting process. Business can’t find people to work. The unemployed unable to find work. Square in the middle of the contradiction — Recruiting.
You’ve probably seen the media trend of articles, podcasts and news stories about The Future of . . . Just fill in an industry or product or service. The Future of Work. The Future of Banking. The Future Technology. The Future of the CEO. There is so much The Future…
It was a defining moment for a generation. January 28, 1986.
It seems each generation has one — Pearl Harbor, JFK’s assissination, 9–11.
We focus a lot of attention on the events of the moment, the shock and the human tragedy. But what really makes them defining is the influence…
How Will Technology Change Human Civilization
Technology has been disrupting and advancing the way live, and maybe even the way we evolve, for over 3.5 million years. It was that long ago that ancestors, the Australopithecus, started using stone tools. For roughly 3.4 million years stone tools supported the evolution our species and social structures, eventually…
Artificial Intelligence, robots, genomics, virtual reality, and many other new technologies are driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution, scultping and reshaping the way we work and live. Since we’ve had had three industrial revolutions already economists and business leaders understand that we’re already seeing the signs that we’ve just started another.
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A lot has changed in the more than 100 years since Labor Day was first recognized and celebrated. Two world wars, space travel, penicillan, the evolution from a rural to urban society, the evolution from an agricultural to manufacturing to service economy. To most of us, Labor Day’s origins and…
In everyday life we tend to use the term values rather loosely. Generally, we mean something that is of importance in some way. Often there is a moral or social norm that raises some values over the other in importance. But if we’re honest, there is a good chance we…
There is rightfully at lot of excitement about the amazing things AI, robots and other forms of automation can do. Whether it’s the simple novelty of artificial intelligence studying the works of Bach and composing a new Bach-like symphony or something more serious like AI diagnosing medical conditions and exoskeletons…
With over 180 million hits on productivity tips you’d think you have heard it all by now. Maybe or maybe not. Beyond just the surface level productivity hacks you’ve seen before is doing something about the root cause of what getting in the way of maximizing your productivity. Sure, an…
We get very comfortable with our jobs and even the company we work for, especially if you work for a large company. Even if we see macrotrends like AI, robotics and automation reshaping the economy we’re take a look to see how the impacts will ripple their way to us…
