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Since reading a couple of books and a lot of articles on automation, a couple of thoughts float around my mind. Such as: what if losing some skills is not all that bad? Or, what if the average IQ will not be sufficient in the future? Or what if the evolutionary basis of our survival was not…
Remember how right after the Lehman Brothers fell into bankruptcy, companies started laying off people right and left? There was such an aura of fear that the economy would dive off the cliff. Banks were starting to fail, companies with a huge financial unit (GE for example) could not obtain short term loans, and politicians were…
I recently read something from McKinsey about automation and the future. The overall theme, which was a little too rosy, is that the automation future will happen slower than we think and that it will be a world where humans will work with machines (rather than total takeover by machines). Automation will bring about economic growth and…
Let the games begin! It’s time to do the ACA Reporting. Last year, when we were at the stage of developing the paper report, reviewing the data was so onerous that the HR VP said that we were going to do it differently the next year (meaning 2017). So I kind of took it to…
The week before I wrote a post about somebody fudging the numbers instead of fixing the errors. I saw at least 3 instances of fudging but there is no telling how many people have figured out how to manipulate the numbers. So last by the end of last week, I rolled out a password and…
“Change or die”. “They don’t want to change.” “Change is hard to do.” We’ve all heard those phrases before and we will keep hearing it over and over, probably over the next couple of decades. The next chapter in Making It In America is about change. He makes the case for change and, as usual, in…