Inc.
Efficiency Is the Enemy of Innovation
3 min · · A new Harvard Business Review article questions our deeply held beliefs about how markets operate. · Shared by 87, including Thomas Wong, fernand0, Tom Connor, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Charles Baldwin, Bertrand Maltaverne, Nicolas Berg, Lucas Foster, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे
Harvard Business Review
Rethinking Efficiency
20+ min · · Beginning with Adam Smith, business thinkers have steadfastly regarded the elimination of waste as management’s holy grail. But what if the negative effects from the pursuit of efficiency eclipse the… · Shared by 84, including Jeff Sutherland, Katja Evertz, Jelan Ong, Thomas Wong, Tauno, Carlo Badini, Tom Connor, JP Nicols 🇺🇸🇺🇦, Bertrand Maltaverne, Gabriele
medium.com
Our humanity needs to develop at the same speed as our technology
7 min · · The way we view work life is influenced by the way we view the world. This view rests on the most fundamental assumptions we make about… · Shared by 31, including Thomas Power, Azeem Azhar, Dean of Big Data 🎓 #DOBD, Bertrand Maltaverne
medium.com
Google’s Army of Temp Workers Need an Upgrade
6 min · · Google’s army of temp workers should be reclassified as full-time employees. · Shared by 5, including Bertrand Maltaverne
The Wall Street Journal
FedEx, UPS Find Formula for Delivering Seven Days a Week: Discount Sunday Drivers
· Drivers who will be working Sundays for FedEx and UPS under a new seven-days-a-week regime will be paid at a much lower rate than those that the companies use during the week. · Shared by 8, including Bertrand Maltaverne
Pocket Casts
Yuval Noah Harari reveals the real dangers ahead
· Historian and futurist Yuval Harari has a story about the future that’s profound, exciting, and unsettling. · Shared by 5, including Bertrand Maltaverne
Harvard Business Review
Your AI Efforts Won’t Succeed Unless They Benefit Employees
5 min · · Workers need to know AI is here to help — not steal their jobs. · Shared by 45, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Joseph Kvedar, MD, Andy Jankowski, Carla Johnson - Keynote Speaker, Gerrit Eicker, 瑞拿頭, Antonio Vieira Santos, Jonathan Kogan, Thomas Wong, Ian M Calvert
Quartz
One of the world’s most influential economists wants to save capitalism from itself
11+ min · · Mariana Mazzucato is helping everyone from the European Union to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez design economic policy. · Shared by 72, including Tim O'Reilly, Bertrand Maltaverne, Alexandra Wong, Jochen Burkhard, Beth Heald
strategy+business
Mission critical
18+ min · · Economist Mariana Mazzucato explains how solving society’s toughest problems starts with rethinking how value is created and innovation is incentivized. · Shared by 14, including Randy Deutsch, Bertrand Maltaverne
TED Talks
Auret van Heerden: Making global labor fair
· FLA head Auret van Heerden talks about the next frontier of workers' rights -- globalized industries where no single national body can keep workers safe and protected. How can we keep our global… · Shared by 7, including Bertrand Maltaverne
Forbes
How Beneficial Could Apprenticeships Be In The Future Of Work?
3 min · · The ability to learn and relearn is likely to be crucial in adapting to technological changes in the future of work. Can apprenticeships provide hope, especially for those in vocational careers? · Shared by 10, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Meghan M. Biro ⚡️, Bertrand Maltaverne
Axios
Automation is destroying more jobs than it creates
2 min · · In three new papers, two leading U.S. labor economists reject the predictions that it will create more jobs than it destroys. · Shared by 15, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Scott Santens
Quartz
The short but destructive history of mass layoffs
11+ min · · It was only in the 1970s that laying off workers in droves became standard practice. · Shared by 13, including @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Bertrand Maltaverne
Project Syndicate
The Revolution Need Not Be Automated | by Daron Acemoglu & Pascual Restrepo
4 min · · For centuries after the Industrial Revolution, automation did not hinder wage and employment growth, because it was accompanied by new technologies geared toward maintaining the role of human labor in… · Shared by 24, including Jonathan Kogan, Bertrand Maltaverne
Project Syndicate
The Social Solution to Automation
4 min · · In our efficiency-obsessed society, new technologies are deployed with the single-minded objective of boosting productivity and eliminating the need for human labor. But rather than worry about the… · Shared by 18, including Bertrand Maltaverne, MIT Press
Quartz
Quartz | The short but destructive history of mass layoffs
1 min · · It was only in the 1970s that laying off workers in droves became standard practice. · Shared by 4, including Bertrand Maltaverne