Barbara Ann Berwick drove for Uber for eight weeks in 2014. She, and two others, then brought suit against the
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We Have Met the Economy, and It Is Us
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by Lesley Crane
One of the pervasive and persuasive myths associated with burgeoning technology in the workplace is that it would create thousands
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by J C Spender
Alan Turing, the British mathematician who did crucial work on WW2 German Naval codes and on computing, has been much
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by David Hurst
Claiming Our Humanity: What the Pope Francis’ Encyclical on the Environment Brings To The 7th Global Drucker Forum To
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by Henry Mintzberg
Managing does not change, not fundamentally. It is a practice, rooted in art and craft, not a science or a
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by Dan Pontefract
In 1982, Time magazine declared the personal computer its “Machine of the Year.” Up until then, humans usually had won a “Person of
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by Paul Zak
Ah the digital world! Email, video conferencing, and e-documents mean less travel and higher productivity. Electronic communication has allowed for
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by Marten Mickos
We live in a digital age where our humanity is challenged. What humans were mechanically doing is now being automated
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