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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

Too often, leaders view such investments as costly training on things that seem to be “common sense” or issues they can afford to get around to later. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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8 Ways Machine Learning Is Improving Companies’ Work Processes

Harvard Business

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Measuring brand exposure. Smoother supply chains.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. So that year, AP began working with an AI firm to train software to automatically write short earnings news stories. “Machine-to-machine” transactions are the low-hanging fruit of AI, not people-displacement.

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Managing Overwhelm

Jacq Hackett Consulting

You realise it’s the end of the quarter and you still haven’t figured out a system for sorting out your finances. So don’t be overwhelmed by managing the business finances; instead get a bookkeeper and avoid that end of quarter panic. It isn’t displaying, and you’re worried, but you can’t figure out how to fix it.

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What to Do When Your Heart Isn’t in Your Work Anymore

Harvard Business

According to a 2017 Gallup survey , only one-third of U.S. I see and hear examples of career malaise all the time — in my work teaching and training people in companies, in discussions following my corporate talks, and in conversations with my family and friends. More people fit this profile than you’d think.

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Managing Overwhelm

Jacq Hackett Consulting

You realise it’s the end of the quarter and you still haven’t figured out a system for sorting out your finances. So don’t be overwhelmed by managing the business finances; instead get a bookkeeper and avoid that end of quarter panic. It isn’t displaying, and you’re worried, but you can’t figure out how to fix it.

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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

In 2017, Warton published an article that highlighted the rise of contractual workers in both the private and public sectors. They also need to manage their own training, resource development, and financing. Contractors need to be highly disciplined, organised, and have excellent time management skills.