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How big tech is dragging us towards the next financial crash: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/08/how-big-tech-is-dragging-us-towards-the-next-financial-crash #Business #Economics #Technology
Turns out that the one trillion Dollars which the big US tech companies (Apple, Google, Amazon, etc.) hold in their offshore accounts are mostly in bonds. By that, these companies have become shadow banks, keeping alive other 'zombie' companies that otherwise would run of credit/go out of business.
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More than 1,100 Google employees on Monday demanded the company release a concrete action plan for confronting the climate crisis: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/05/stop-funding-politicians-delaying-bold-climate-action-among-demands-1100-google #ClimateChange #Business #Politics
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What Happened When Microsoft Tried A Four-Day Work Week: https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-4-day-workweek/ - #Business #Economics #Health
Some results were predictable: Workers were happier and took 25.4 percent fewer days off during the month. There were also savings from spending less time at work. 23.1 percent less electricity was used and 58.7 percent fewer pages were printed. More importantly from a bottom-line standpoint, however, productivity went up 39.9%, as fewer and shorter meetings were held, often virtually rather than in person.
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McKinsey Advised Johnson & Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/mckinsey-johnson-and-johnson-opioids.html #Business
If there was only 1 thing we could do this year to significantly reduce corruption, harm & insanity on earth - it would be making McKinsey & other consultancies illegal.
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Innovation: Taking Risks or Making Risks?
https://medium.com/@foam/innovation-taking-risks-or-making-risks-3a9d13b1401aImagine a future in which startup culture has become obsolete as way of creating value. Where the ideals and infrastructure of Silicon Valley are considered old fashioned and embarrasingly silly. What alternative approaches to innovation have developed?
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It’s time to pay attention to the $15 trillion business of growing old:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90341269/its-time-to-pay-attention-to-the-15-trillion-business-of-growing-old #HCI #Culture #Business -
"Money Machines - An Interview with an Anonymous Algorithmic Trader": https://logicmag.io/06-money-machines/ #Robot #Business
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The value of pixels is collapsing. Plan accordingly. #ML #Generative #Business
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“Most corporate planning is like a ritual rain dance. It has no effect on the weather, but those who engage in it think it does. Much of the advice and instruction is directed at improving the dancing, not the weather” - Russel L. Ackoff
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Management by Discovery account of how people plan when faced with ill-defined goals - by Gary A. Klein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_A._Klein
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"Any Map is Better Than No Map At All" (Cartographic Placebo Effect)
via: https://www.scribd.com/document/388012812/dont-just-adapt-shape-the-future?secret_password=cx9OR8VdesR9rTreiqiH #CrowdIntelligence #Business
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Human Sensor Networks: http://cognitive-edge.com/blog/human-sensor-networks-the-ultimate-executive-coach/
“…when you engage a significant percentage of employees, customers, or citizens in the continuous process of recording not only observations and experiences, but also the meaning and influences that such observations and experiences have on them, you have in effect created a human sensor network. The key is to provide people with a semi-constrained framework of meaning through which they reflect on their experience or observation and signify the meaning of each specific observation or experience. The framework of meaning may relate to corporate culture, innovation, safety, engagement, knowledge transfer, or other topic spaces with some initiatives having a combination.”
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"Complex Adaptive Systems" - Keynote by Dave @Snowded:
"A framework allows you to look at things from different perspectives - a model seeks to represent reality. It is different in typology and taxonomy: A taxonomy forces you to put things into boxes, a typology says look at things from these perspectives" - @snowded
"It's a lot easier to train users to talk to IT people, than to train IT people to understand users" - @snowded
"The intervention was to say if you have 10y experience and somebody with 5y experience signs it off, you can break any rule - provided you documented it. So they created a rule about when rules can be broken. Which is kind of like recognising reality" - @snowded
One more recent talk by @snowded which is worth while:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8T7wlJ8DgM -
Blackrock ALADDIN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_%28BlackRock%29
Why Blackrock is using robots to pick stocks
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The Institute for the Future: http://www.iftf.org/
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A primary problem with the startup movement (a system to facilitate large-scale collaboration) of the past 20y, has been this: its full of implicit politics (growth, technocratic, disruption, consumerism) & totally void of explicit politics (ethics, diversity, ecology, etc.)
