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3 Career-Building Strategies for an Increasingly Complex World of Work - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
Most workers used to have fixed roles within a hierarchical organization, but today the nature of work today is becoming fluid and dynamic. Project-based work and freelancing are increasingly common, and many roles are now defined by outcomes rather than hours spent at a desk. Success in this new work environment requires not only recognizing that this shift has taken place but also actively strategizing to leverage it to your advantage. It’s crucial, in particular, the authors argue, to adopt three key strategies: leveraging digital platforms and networks, utilizing open talent and freelancers as a secret weapon, and harnessing the power of AI to augment your capabilities.
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Highly Skilled Professionals Want Your Work But Not Your Job - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
Companies today are facing a big talent-management challenge. They simply do not have the capabilities they need in-house to transform their offerings, processes, and infrastructures—and they’re increasingly unable to persuade highly skilled professionals to come on board full-time, despite making attractive offers. In many fields—particularly technology, data sciences, and machine learning—the people with the most sought-after skills are freelancers. Integrating and managing a new “blended workforce” will be one of the main managerial challenges in the years ahead. Force-fitting the model used for temporary staff onto highly skilled freelancers won’t work, however. Firms must fully integrate these professionals into a highly cohesive internal team. This article looks at successful efforts to manage the blended workforce at companies such as Microsoft, M&C Saatchi, and Mars and lays out some of the most helpful lessons they have learned.
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AI systems are getting better at tricking us - MIT Technology Review (No paywall)
But what we perceive as deception is AI mindlessly achieving the goals we’ve set for it.
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Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military - MIT Technology Review (No paywall)
Despite what happens in Google’s executive suites, workers themselves have tools to force change. Here's how.
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The hot years: the truth about what happens during menopause â and the best ways to get through it
Memory blockages can be scary and hot flushes uncomfortable. But we know so much more now about what really happens in midlife. And the aftermath can be amazing
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Why are scientists making 'moon dust'?
Space agencies around the world need lunar soil.
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How to Make Retirement Less Scary
A Times financial columnist and an illustrator share an exercise that can prepare you for life after work.
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Automation anxiety dates back to the late 16th century
The future of work debate is 500 years old.
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A Skepticâs Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space
Why we shouldn't try to stick solar plants where the sun always shines
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The lie of "expired" food
Stop throwing your food away.
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Saturday 11th May 2024
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