Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts

Friday, September 13, 2024

№ 755. If It Ain't Broke....

 


Sunday, July 21, 2019

№ 400. Man Music & Machine



The fear that machines will replace human labor is a durable one in the public mind, from the time of the Luddites in the early 19th century. Yet most economists have viewed “the end of humans in jobs” as a groundless fear, inconsistent with the evidence. The standard view of technical change is that some jobs are displaced by the substitution of machines for labor, but that the fear of total displacement is misplaced because new jobs are created, largely due to the technology-fueled increase in productivity. Humans have always shifted away from work suitable for machines and to other jobs. This was true in the 1930s, when the shift was away from agriculture, through the 1990s and early 2000s, when the shift was largely out of manufacturing.

However, the expansion of what can be automated in recent years has raised the question: Is this time different?


Wednesday, September 30, 2015

№ 218. An MBA Can't Help in Your Career?!

MBA
"During meetings, my fellow managers who have MBAs often talk, if not brag about what they know about management buzzwords and theories. When I hear them bragging and counter-bragging with one another, I feel belittled as I can’t contribute much during our discussions. I hesitate to give my two cents’ worth as I don’t want to telegraph my ignorance.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011