What have you and I been put on this Earth to do?
Steven Pressfield – Author and Historian
Clayton Christiansen, father of contemporary disruption, developed a Harvard Business School (HBS) course addressing the above question. The purpose of the course was to engage very bright people to reflect on their lives and disrupt it intentionally. He saw many successful people were horribly unhappy with divorces and substance abuse. Continue reading
The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
Stephen Hawking – Physicist
Alexa, my Samsung TV, and most of our connected home products can talk to me and each other. But, machine smartness is causing problems. Big Brother smart machines seem to be always watching, recording, listening and monitoring. CCTV is filming and surveilling. Continue reading
Are Robots Coming for Your Job? ‘Eventually, Yes’.
Headline of N.Y. Times Article
Would you like to see your favorite actor in a movie, TV program, or Netflix? Or, would a computer-generated facsimile of a similar actor work just as well for you? Or, at what point is the quality and illusion of reality good enough to entertain you? Continue reading
“… computers are now doing many things that used to be the domain of people only. The pace and scale of this encroachment into human skills is relatively recent and has profound economic implications. Perhaps the most important of these is that while digital progress grows the overall economic pie, it can do so while leaving some people, or even a lot of them, worse off.”(1)
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andy McAfee – Authors of Race Against the Machine Continue reading
Lengthy reigns at the top may be the next thing to get disrupted.
Carol Ryan – Wall Street Journal Writer
What’s the CEOs role in VUCA time? What do you think? According to the Wall Street Journal. “Point people to the light at the end of the tunnel” (Crash Course in Crisis Management’, Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2020.) Continue reading