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Are We Ready To Give Up Agency To Save Time?
I have spent the better part of the past few years advocating for goods and services that cater to the inherent slothfulness in all human beings. I’ve concluded that the automation of…
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Its Not Tetris: Hire The Best People In the Present Of Work
You’ve probably been denied a job due to “fit” – as in, you are not the right fit for the role or the right fit for the organization. But what exactly does…
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The Value Of Manual Labor In The World Of Work In The Future
I went to a conference a few months back that was focused on the future of conversational interfaces. During this conference, one of the speakers described the current state of the art…
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The Future Is Just-in-Time-Person-and-Place
According to Wikipedia, the idea of just-in-time only appears in three contexts: just-in-time manufacturing, a production strategy in which things are built as they are demanded; computer programming, in which just-in-time compilation…
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Work Both Expands (And Shrinks) To Fit The Time Allotted
One of the most interesting things I find about project management is that many of the supposed “myths” regarding time and work are true. Work indeed expands to fill the time allotted…
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Party For Results, Not Rank
Looking to make your business more innovative? Stop celebrating promotions. The corporate world is an interesting place. For the longest time, it was mired in a hierarchical structure, with workers reporting to…
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7 Tips For Dealing With The Coronavirus And Future Black Swans
There is a tremendous amount of misinformation out there on this pandemic. Much of it is designed, in my view, to throw people into a panic. In our practice, we have a…
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Humans Are Awesome
“Oh, what a piece of work is man.” Have you ever just stopped and looked around you and marveled at everything around you? Unless you are a member of a remote tribe…
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how to stop toxic employees
Have you ever come out of a meeting thinking, wow, there are some terrible people are working here! Some only care about making themselves look good, so they pull down everyone around…
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Eliminating Human Bias By Eliminating Humans.
In a previous post, I talked about how Amazon shut down their AI-guided recruiting experiment because they could not successfully drive out bias, for both the learning data and the programmers. Since…
