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Set the Conditions for Anyone on Your Team to Be Creative

Harvard Business

That goes far beyond the intermittent training that most organizations do. Now Leonardo was clearly a genius of historical proportions, but think about how much more efficient he would have been with a decent search engine. You need to identify the components of a skill, offer coaching, and encourage employees to work on weak areas.

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The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain

Harvard Business

Sometimes she’s helping tech companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft train the algorithms that will curate online content. Contract workers are needed to train algorithms to make some of the most important decisions about content.

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As Machines Take Jobs, Companies Need to Get Creative About Making New Ones

Harvard Business

This includes not just understanding how competitors might use new technologies to create competing products and services more efficiently at lower cost but also exploring new business models and corporate models. Company leaders will need to invest time and money in studying their industries and how they will be impacted by technology.

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