Whether AI and the technologies it enables will reach their full potential depends on the workforce that will work alongside them. Yet the skills...
There are many adjectives that could be used to describe the global outbreak of COVID-19, but perhaps the simplest might be: fast.
The disease has...
Don’t expect this to be either of the typical articles about diversity. I’m here not to fawn over its benefits nor to rant about...
Giving feedback is hard.
Giving good feedback is even harder.
Giving good feedback across cultures is next to impossible.
On my first Canadian project two decades ago,...
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One day, sitting in the shed he called home, the journalist, Oobah Butler, had an idea: he would turn...
Where AI, robots, IoT and the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution are taking us, and how we should prepare for it are some of the hottest topics being discussed today. Perhaps the most striking thing about these discussions is how different people’s conclusions are. Some picture a utopia where machines do all work, where all people receive a universal basic income from the revenues machines generate and where, being freed from a need to work for wages, all people devote their time to altruism, art and culture. Others picture a dystopia where a tiny elite class uses their control of AI to horde all the world’s wealth and trap everyone else in inescapable poverty. Others take a broad view that sees minimal disruption beyond adopting new workplace paradigms.
Today’s business leadership face a conundrum. Artificial Intelligence (AI) unquestionably will play an enormous role in the future of their organizations and the business...
If you’ve read the many predictions about the future of AI, you’ve likely found them to be wildly different. They range from AI spelling...
How window-dressing chips away at any tangible rewards companies could reap from neurodiversity efforts.
Diversity has made a dent in the public consciousness. With...
Several comments in response to my recent competency-focused post led me to also consider the importance of curiosity in the workplace. Interestingly enough, recent experiences have...
While I add a similar disclaimer to all of my public content, it's particularly important in this case to emphasize that the convictions I've...
When crisis strikes your business, what can you do? As you try to pick up the pieces, at some point your mind would likely...
The face of interim management is changing. Traditionally, an interim manager was someone at the end of his career who chose interim management to...
Businesses, facing an ever-increasing variety of complex problems, are in desperate need of good interim managers to help solve them. Such positions are highly...
Are you hiring and using interim managers wisely? Why is it that some companies attain exceptional results from interim manager hirings and some are...