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Guest Post from David Burkus |
Getting quiet employees to speak up in meetings can feel like a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be. The truth is silence doesn’t mean disengagement. Often, quiet team members are the most reflective, thoughtful contributors—they just need the right environment to share their insights. If you’ve ever wondered ...
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Guest Post from Art Inteligencia |
We are drowning in data. The digital universe is doubling roughly every two years, and our current infrastructure — reliant on vast, air-conditioned server farms — is neither environmentally nor economically sustainable. This is where the most profound innovation of the 21st century ...
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Guest Post from Mike Shipulski
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If you see things differently than others, congratulations. You’re thinking for yourself. If you find yourself pressured into thinking like everyone else, that’s a sign your opinion threatens. It’s too powerful to be dismissed out-of-hand, and that’s why they want to shut you up. If the status quo is angered by ...
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Guest Post from Geoffrey Moore |
Epistemology is that branch of philosophy that addresses the theory of knowledge. But what do philosophers mean by knowledge? Traditionally, it is defined as justified true belief, and it is established by applying logic and reason to whatever set of claims is under discussion. That is the path we are going to ...
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Guest Post from Robyn Bolton |
“It just popped up one day. Who knows how long they worked on it or how many of millions were spent. They told us to think of it as ChatGPT but trained on everything our company has ever done so we can ask it anything and get an answer immediately.” The words my client was using to describe her company’s new AI Chatbot made it sound like ...
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Guest Post from Shep Hyken |
While this isn’t formal research, I’ve asked many people the question, “What do you think is the most common question that customers ask employees?” I made the point that this isn’t about calling customer support; it’s a people-to-people interaction. Almost everyone answers correctly: “Where’s the bathroom?”
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Guest Post from Greg Satell |
There’s no question we have entered a transformative age, with major shifts in technology, resources, demography and migration. Over the next decades, we will have to move from digital from post-digital, from carbon to zero-carbon and from the Boomer values to those of Millennials and Zoomers. Migration will strain societies’ social compact.
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