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The «perfect storm» which shaped evolution of the world of work - generated by sea changes in technologies, economy, society, governance in all its forms - is forcing Management to change. In order not to be submerged, the manager has to be «augmented», he has to use and master new tools and new knowledge at his disposal. All executives face this challenge.
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Analytics and intuition: finding equilibriumMIT Sloan Review, Renee Boucher Ferguson
March 5, 2013
“It’s encouraging that thoughtful data scientists like Ms. Perlich and Ms. Schutt recognize the limits and short-comings of the Big Data technology that they are buil-ding. Listening to the data is important, they say, but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?”
How I found happiness after being firedLife Hacker, Amy Schouse, February 13, 2013
“When I think back to my mission of avoiding the Walk of Shame, I can still feel how focused I was on saving myself from stuffing what was left of my self-worth into an odd-shaped box. When my boss told me that I had been «eliminated,» I was so mentally prepared that I practically floated back to my office, where I grabbed my purse and the only two picture frames that were left on my desk.”
Pope Benedict XVI and the leadership issue no one wants to talk about
Harvard Business Review, Gretchen Gavett, February 11, 2013
“There’s something equally valuable, equally inspiratio-nal about taking that page of the textbook out — «lea-ders are born and they’re special» — and instead rea-ding the page that says «leaders are made as much as they’re born, maybe more so, and that they’re made in unexpected ways. And that they recognize how human they really are.”
Diriger au féminin : les 3 conseils de Françoise Gri
Les Echos, 6 février 2013« IBM, Manpower et depuis un mois Pierre & Va-cances... Depuis plus de 10 ans, Françoise Gri met son sens de l’humain et de la stratégie au service des entreprises qu’elle dirige. Ses conseils pour exercer un leadership au féminin, extraits de son livre, «Women Power», aux éditions du Rocher. »
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Le travail invisible ou l’économie victime du dogme positiviste
Le blog de Philippe Silberzahn, 11 mars 2013« La source de création de valeur réside dans le travail et celui-ci a trois dimensions: la dimension subjective (la réalisation de soi dans le travail), la dimension ob-jective (ce qui est produit par le travail) et la dimension collective (aucun travailleur n’existe et ne crée seul). La tendance lourde a été de nier de plus en plus des dimensions subjectives et collectives, pour ne plus se concentrer que sur la dimension objective, que l’on es-saie de mesurer de plus en plus objectivement. »
On the intelligence requirements ofentrepreneurs (ENTINT)
Sources & Methods, Kristan J. Wheaton February 18, 2013
“I certainly don’t need long-term predictions about the health of the tabletop gaming industry. I need good-enough answers about things I am working on right now. This, in turn, suggests the form of an intelligence activi-ty designed to support entrepreneurs. It would have to be staffed by a variety of high-quality generalists, able to provide answers on a wide range of topics quickly.”
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Stéphane Hessel : «D’abord, réguler les marchés, ensuite réinstaurer une véritable démocratie sociale»
Viva, Anne-Marie Thomazeau, 27 février 2013
« On l’a vu en France avec les manifestations pour les retraites ou lors de la forte mobilisation pour les pri-maires socialistes. Mais chez nous en France, et plus encore dans certains pays comme l’Allemagne où la démocratie fonctionne bien, l’ennemi est devenu plus diffus. Mais nous le connaissons. Il s’agit de la spé-culation financière. L’engagement pour demain, c’est de celui-ci qu’il s’agit, le même qu’en 1944. D’abord, réguler les marchés, ensuite réinstaurer une véritable démocratie sociale. »
Robert Castel, le sociologue de l’insécurité sociale, est mort
Slate, Jean-Laurent Cassely, 13 mars 2013« Dès les années 1970 et la montée inexorable du chômage, on assiste à la remise en cause de certains acquis, à la montée de la précarité et de l’incertitude sociales, qui marqueront les générations suivantes nées dans l’après plein-emploi. Robert Castel utilisera le terme de «désaffiliation», exclusion du monde du travail et isolation sociale, pour désigner ces nouveaux exclus du contrat social. »
The real winners of the global economy:the material boys
New Geography, Joel Kotkin, March 6, 2013
“Something strange happened on the road to our much-celebrated post-industrial utopia. The real winners of the global economy have turned out to be not the crea-tive types or the data junkies, but the material boys: countries, states and companies that have perfected the art of physical production in agriculture, energy and, remarkably, manufacturing.”
L’usine française innove à la chaîneLibération, Maud Vincent 6 mars 2013
A l’heure de la sinistrose, il est peut être salutaire de se tourner vers des perspectives plus optimistes. Voici un article qui traite de notre industrie qui se réinvente, de l’usine du futur. Celle qui se cherche en surfant sur l’innovation : objets connectés, robotique, nouveaux process de l’ère numérique… Fleurons mondiaux ou petites pousses, pure player du renouveau industriel ou usines traditionnelles opérant un virage stratégique, des entreprises surfent sur le potentiel qu’offrent les nouvelles technologies sur fond de révolution écolo-gique.
Economic Paradigm Changes
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The coming crash in the bond marketFreadom Pheonix, Bud Conrad, March 8, 2013
“There will come a time when the Fed announces a new program of balance sheet expansion by asset pur-chases that will cause the interest rate to rise because of fears of inflation from money creation, rather than fall as the Fed desires. At that point, we’ll know the Fed’s power to manipulate the economy has dissipated. The coming crash in the bond market.”
Living with less. A lot less.The New York Times, Graham Hill, March 9, 2013
“I have come a long way from the life I had in the late ’90s, when, flush with cash from an Internet start-up sale, I had a giant house crammed with stuff — electro-nics and cars and appliances and gadgets.Somehow this stuff ended up running my life, or a lot of it; the things I consumed ended up consuming me. My circumstances are unusual (not everyone gets an Internet windfall before turning 30), but my relationship with material things isn’t.”
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“Some of these institutions have become too large”
The Peterson Institute for International Economics, Simon Johnson, March 7, 2013
“I am concerned that the size of some of these insti-tutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indica-tions that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy.”
Governance Paradigm Changes
Technology Futures
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The Byzantine empire’s own ‘eurozone’crisis offers a lesson for the EU today
The Guardian, Peter Frankopan, March 10, 2013
“Unlike the European Union, Byzantium was not riddled with inefficiency and disparity when it came to tax: pro-fits could not be parked in a more attractive region, the-reby undermining the empire’s structure. Government in Byzantium was lean, simple and efficient.”
Les Suisses votent contre les «rémunérations abusives» des patrons
Le Monde, Agathe Duparc, 4 mars 2013« C’est une petite révolution en Suisse, pays tradition-nellement acquis au libéralisme économique. Dimanche 3 mars, 67,9 % des électeurs, ainsi que tous les can-tons, ont dit oui à l’initiative «contre les rémunérations abusives».Un texte qui renforce le pouvoir des actionnaires au sein des entreprises cotées, afin d’empêcher les grands patrons de ces sociétés de s’octroyer d’exorbitants sa-laires ou parachutes dorés. »
Disruptions: data without context tells a misleading story
The New York Times, Nick Bilton, February 24, 2013“Several researchers suggest that the problems may be due to widespread media coverage of this year’s severe U.S. flu season,” Declan Butler wrote in Nature. Then add social media, which helped news of the flu spread quicker than the virus itself.”
Your brain is being augmented, you just don’t realize it
Big Think, Dominic Basulto, February 21, 2013
“Instead, the future augmentation of our brains will be much more gradual and nuanced. Once we started to consider our mobile devices to be extensions of our physical bodies - carrying them around with us where-ver we go and imbuing them with characteristics such as personality - we set into motion a complex chain reaction of events that made the future hybrid of man and machine a certainty. 20 points on your IQ was just the start.”
This electronic temporary tattoo will soon be tracking your health
Wired, Nathan Hurst, February 28, 2013
“But the tool could offer more than self-measurement. Because of the detail in the signal received, it could be used as a human-machine interface — for example, a videogame or drone controller — based on signals from the user’s muscles. It’s really marrying fully integrated electronics to the skin, a non-permanent bionic inter-face.”
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How African feminism changed the worldThink Africa Press, Aili Mari, Tripp, March 8, 2013
“In the predominantly Muslim country of Senegal, for instance, the proportion of female parliamentary repre-sentatives jumped from 23% to 43% in the 2012 elec-tions, following the adoption of a new parity law. For over a decade, the movement Conseil Senegalais des Femmes (COSEF) had been campaigning for greater gender parity and their efforts finally bore fruit with the establishment of a law that ensured candidate lists al-ternate between male and female candidates.”
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The 66%: America’s growing underclassThe Atlantic, Richard Florida, October 29, 2013
“Worse yet, the ranks of the 66 percent are a product of the very structure of post-industrial capitalism. If the top third of America’s workers are navigating and prospe-ring in the knowledge economy, the other two-thirds are disconnected and sinking. And if things continue to go in the direction that they have been, their children and their grandchildren will be too.”
Le président du Parlement de l’UE: «nous avons sauvé les banques mais nous risquons de perdre une génération»
La Tribune, MT, 11 mars 2013« La Grèce, l’Espagne et l’Italie ont peut-être les géné-rations les mieux éduquées de leur histoire, leurs pa-rents ont investi beaucoup d’argent pour l’éducation de leurs enfants, ils ont tout fait au mieux», a regretté Mar-tin Schulz, lui-même autodidacte. «Maintenant qu’ils sont prêts à travailler, la société leur dit : ‘Il n’y pas de place pour vous’, «Nous sommes en train de créer une génération perdue» ajoute-t-il. Le parlementaire craint que celle-ci ne perde confiance dans les institutions européennes. »
In China clean air sells at $0.80 per breathZero Hedge, Tyler Durden, March 3, 2013
“With now daily reports that the smog levels in Beijing are frequently literally «off the charts», it was only a matter of time before some aspiring Chinese entrepre-neur decided to provide a much demanded product: clean air. As expected, Xinhua reports that «philanthro-pist» Chen Guangbiao is now actively selling canned air to willing and eager Beijingites, tired of inhaling toxic, carcinogenic smog particles. The cost: $0.80 for a can of fresh air.”
India’s rice revolutionThe Guardian, John Vidal, February 16, 2013
“This was not six or even 10 or 20 tonnes. Kumar, a shy young farmer in Nalanda district of India’s poorest state Bihar, had – using only farmyard manure and without any herbicides – grown an astonishing 22.4 tonnes of rice on one hectare of land. This was a world record and with rice the staple food of more than half the world’s population of seven billion, big news.”
The real reason the Economy is broken(and will stay that way)
Zero Hedge, Tyler Durden, February, Februar 13, 2013
“In the meantime, the best I can tell you is that the mar-kets are reflecting liquidity, not reality, and that until and unless the world suddenly starts to produce a lot more crude oil and the U.S. and Europe increase their consumption of it, I will remain quite skeptical of all pro-nouncements of recovery in the West.”
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- Le DVDM© made in SOMFYhttp://curiosites.fr/a-la-une/somfy-jean-francois-deglise-favre/
- Lego fait passer à ses managers un examen sur les réseaux sociauxhttp://ow.ly/iZjLv
- Critical thinking is best taught outside the classroomhttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=critical-thinking-best-taught-outside-classroom
- Euro zone economy falls deeper than expected into recessionhttp://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/14/us-europe-economy-idUSBRE91D0CX20130214
- GOLDMAN: Behavioral biases are found in every aspect of the investment processhttp://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-behavioral-biases-2013-2
- The future of lying: What if computers can keep us from lying?http://ow.ly/iZkrq
- The rise of mindful consumptionhttp://voices.mckinseyonsociety.com/the-rise-of-mindful-consumption/
- One in seven women are made redundant after maternity leavehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/mar/09/women-on-maternity-leave-illegal-discrimation
- In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy. http://ow.ly/iZl4v
- Factory in Greece starts production under workers’ controlhttp://www.libcom.org/news/factory-greece-starts-production-under-workers-control-11022013
- A sensational breakthrough: the first bionic hand that can feelhttp://ow.ly/iZlnP
- The hippos and camels of connected productshttp://www.ericsson.com/uxblog/2013/02/the-hippos-and-camels-of-connected-products/
- The perils of perfectionhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/opinion/sunday/the-perils-of-perfection.html
- Steve Mann: My “augmediated” lifehttp://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/steve-mann-my-augmediated-life
- A CIA analyst predicts the groovy Big Data world of the future in 1962http://ow.ly/iZmsv
- Le carnage du travailhttp://eco-vibes.over-blog.com/article-le-carnage-du-travail-115420435.html#fromTwitter
- ‘Internet of things’ promises nine billion tons of carbon savingshttp://ow.ly/iZmNr
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