Leadership

We’ve all heard it: AI is coming for junior-level jobs. If you are in your 20s and you use a computer for work, you have already been affected . Plenty of handwringing ensued . But fear not, it is an illusion.…

Theranos Under Fire as U.S. Threatens Crippling Sanctions - The New York Times

In my experience, leaders that “make it” tend to be hugely ambitious when talking about what they want to do and incessantly conservative when discussing what they have done. Around the time Google flirted with being the largest public company in the world, Larry Page offered publicly and privately his observation that the company had accomplished maybe 1% of what it should be doing. You have to know a bit about engineers, relentless problem solvers, to not see that as a slight: the best reward to an engineer for a job well done is a new set of bigger and more interesting problems to solve. Larry made his observation with excitement, not disappointment. Almost a decade ago, Elon Musk declared his intention to colonize Mars and for years afterward was posting videos on YouTube of his company’s rockets blowing up. This was his way of telling his team at SpaceX that they were only 1% of the way there and what a cool thing that was.…

Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization - MIT Technology Review

In my consulting days, I espoused an unpopular theory, that 40-60% of the workforce of every Fortune 500 company could be replaced with a well-programmed computer. I was often met with incredulity and admonished that even if such a future were inevitable, it was surely not a topic for polite conversation.…