The new priorities of management today
Those who head big corporations are needed to marshal forces to sustain the planet, distribute wealth more evenly, and bring health to a growing world population; to educate, to communicate, to establish a new behavioural order
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AS WE enter into the second quarter of 2019, it makes sense to do a review of this column, Management Unleashed, to date. The previous articles published so far in this series have been a fairly logical, commonsense extension of what any organisation must do to equip itself with the soft skills for the 21st century.
Hard skills are being overtaken by robotics and artificial intelligence, powerful drivers of logic and order. In time, AI will replace many jobs. Humans will still exist, though for how long and in what form will be determined by our successors. They will have the unenviable task of weighing the value of measure and predictability against feeling and sensitivity - the useable waterfall versus the picturesque stream.
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