These are pretty weird times so it perhaps feels less surprising than usual that a recent book recommends running a company where staff can help to set their own salaries, accounts are accessible to all, where there is no formal . . .
Read articleposted 17th April 2019The W.E.I.R.D. CEO, book review: Leadership in the AI age
Employment contracts haven’t changed much since ancient Roman times: they’re all about showing up and doing the job, not about whether the job will be satisfying or whether the employee will get the tools and authority they need to do . . .
Read articleposted 7th March 2019Quickfire Interview with IoT Now on WEIRD CEO
Interview with Jeremy Cowan from IoT Now talking about WEIRD CEO and why we need to change, in order to deal with a new working world dominated by Artificial Intelligence.
Read articleposted 6th March 2019Forbes.com
Wandering through the office one day, I overheard a conversation about our holiday policy between two developers and couldn’t help but smirk to myself: A: ‘I don’t know what to do about my holidays.’ B: ‘What’s the problem?’ A: ‘I . . .
Read articleposted 6th March 2019Forbes.com
The rising value of data has changed the business landscape forever, and companies have migrated en masse to the (theoretical) unlimited capacity of the cloud. As IoT devices have started to pump more data through networks and into the cloud, . . .
Read articleposted 6th March 2019Forbes.com
This series of articles has looked at the promise of Big Data, AI, and IoT, and how they all make up one ecosystem. So after looking at the benefits of these technologies in specific environments, it is worth a review of the . . .
Read articleposted 6th March 2019Forbes.com
What comes to mind when you think of a factory? A dark Victorian mill? A Charlie Chaplin skit? Or a roboticized production line? Industrial manufacturing has consistently been a marker of progress, acting as a sign of the times as . . .
Read articleposted 6th March 2019Forbes.com
Since computers were first invented people have been looking for ‘the next big thing.’ Now, as close to half the world owns a phone faster than the earliest supercomputers, it is difficult to keep track of what we should pay attention to. While . . .
Read articleposted 19th February 2019Forbes.com
The healthcare sector is facing a host of severe problems that do not have one overarching solution. Globally there is a shortage of 7.2 million healthcare workers, and a rapidly aging population will only add more strain to the doctors that remain. New . . .
Read articleposted 19th February 2019forbes.com
Emotions are our most human quality, but what if we could teach AI to understand our feelings? The goal of artificial intelligence (AI) research has shifted over the years; to compute what humans could not, to beat us in specific . . .
Read articleposted 1st February 2019Book by Charles Towers-Clark
In The WEIRD CEO, Charles sets out the technological and societal changes that will take place over the next fifteen years, and explains why companies need to rethink the way they motivate employees. He outlines why CEOs and managers need to encourage Wisdom, Emotional Intelligence, Initiative, Responsibility and Development (WEIRD) to make sure employees feel fulfilment and ownership in their work – and gives a fascinating and sometimes brutally honest record of the change process his company went through.
The WEIRD CEO explains how and why we need to change, in order to deal with a new working world dominated by Artificial Intelligence.
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