The Competition Between Knowledge Workers and GenAI
by Alex Adamopoulos

I just came back from attending one of the worldā€™s largest technology conferences where the sarcastic comment of the week from speakers was to promise they wouldnā€™t bring up the term ā€˜AIā€™. We have a huge problem looming thatā€™s related to AI. Itā€™s already become a confusing buzzword that most canā€™t define or explain. When asked, the common response is that AI is ChatGPT or another GenAI tool. This lack of clarity and confusion about AI is compounded by the AI fearmongering that exists in the media and within organizations that want everyone to believe weā€™re all going to be replaced by robots or a bot. Thereā€™s also a perception of division between the knowledge worker (people) and the AI (the tools).[ā€¦]

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Feeling our way through the changing world of work
by Alex Adamopoulos

This March, Emergn hosted an executive breakfast in partnership with the Global Peter Drucker Forum, featuring London Business Schoolā€™s eminent Lynda Gratton and her latest book, Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organization and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone. It was nearly three years to the day since the COVID-19 pandemic took its grip, offices emptied practically overnight, and much of the world went into various degrees of lockdown.[ā€¦]

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Looking Inward to Drive Outperformance
by Alex Adamopoulos

Peter Drucker once said, ā€œif you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.ā€ The simplicity of Druckerā€™s dialogue seems always to cast a shadow over the depths of the words he said.Ā 

In the wake of past and ongoing hardshipsā€”the pandemic, labor shortages, supply-chain instability and inflationā€”businesses continue to adjust while looking for something new to keep up with quickly evolving market and consumer demands.

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