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Income Inequality Explained: Why Wages Don't, Won't, and Can't Keep Up With Productivity

MishTalk

By now, everyone is well aware that real wages have not kept up worker productivity. Workers Don''t Share in Companies'' Productivity Gains. In stark contrast to the great American dream, CNN notes Workers don''t share in companies'' productivity gains. between 1973 and 2011, compared to a 10.7% But why is that?

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Amazon to Increase Robots from 1,400 to 10,000 by End of 2014; Day in the Life of a Robot

MishTalk

Chief Executive Jeff Bezos told investors at Amazon’s annual shareholders meeting Wednesday that the company has about 1,000 robots picking products today. Day in the Life of a Robot In the following video, Kiva Systems founder and CEO Mick Mountz narrates a play-by-play video of how Kiva robots automate a warehouse environment.

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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

In the following video, Dr. Chermack provides an overview of the process using a small business case study. This video provides some practical insights into scenario planning. Organizational change resilience is responding productively to significant disruptive change and transforming challenges into opportunities. Chermack, T.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below).

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Addicted to What?

Chad Barr

Here are the key takeaways I’d like to share with you and as always, I welcome your thoughts and feedback: The business model for these companies has changed from selling products to selling users. Hospital admissions for depression and anxiety has increased since 2011 by 62% for teens and 189% for preteens.

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Destruction of French Manufacturing Placed Squarely on Euro

MishTalk

Eric Dor writes " The launch of the euro brought about an impressive decrease of manufacturing production in France and huge losses of market shares. ". Since the launch of the euro, French and German industrial productions have extremely diverged. Manufacturing industry production in France. in France and 6.4% in Germany.

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Lettuce Bot - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

MishTalk

On the Salinas Valley farm, entrepreneurs with Mountain View-based startup Blue River Technology are trying to show that the Lettuce Bot can not only replace two dozen workers, but also improve production. food system - particularly fruit and vegetable production - depends on immigrants more than any other sector of the U.S.