Facial recognition tech can identify and analyze key emotional states — but must be used with care.
We need a new story about what businesses and government can achieve.
Emotions provide insight into what motivates people and how to improve performance.
To bring about culture change, organizations need to rethink the concept of leadership by creating a community of leaders who are dedicated to being customer obsessed purpose-driven, highly networked, and curiosity-driven.
Recent CEO departures have been attention-grabbing but are also part of a larger rising turnover rate for the top job within companies. Chief departures can signal fear and uncertainty within the ranks, and often managers and employees feel a lack of direction for moving forward. To mitigate risk, organizations must take steps to prepare for uncertainty.
About a quarter of high-tech companies are run by CEOs who double as inventors. Through patenting and publishing activity, such leaders contribute their own expertise to their companies’ innovation and production efforts, even as they steer their respective ships. This hands-on approach may sound like a distraction from strategic thinking, but it’s the future for top leaders across many sectors, not just tech — and it is already upon us.
To effectively implement AI, organizations will need to use human-centered AI processes that motivate and retrain workers, which shifts the focus from automation to collaboration between humans and machines. To test that idea, an experiment was designed to see how human workers might augment an existing AI system and embrace their new roles as AI trainers — resulting in a symbiotic system that enabled humans and AI to each work to their strengths.
Make the most of your distributed workforce.
Creating belonging for remote workers doesn’t have to feel like a daunting task.
New research reveals five communication strategies that boost performance in virtual teams.
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No matter how compelling it seems, data alone won’t win people over unless infused with a story.
Stanford’s Bob Sutton examines the non-financial debts that companies carry on Three Big Points.
The speed at which digital news travels means leaders must look carefully at potential risks.
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To help contingent workers in the new digital workforce, managers can take three important steps.
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