Leadership trainings and company handbooks don’t typically prepare managers for one of the most difficult things they might experience: the unexpected death of a team member. The author, who works in cancer care, recounts the difficult challenges she faced after losing an employee — and friend — and offers advice for managers in the same…
The pandemic, social unrest, and depressed economy are requiring leaders to be especially sensitive to the impact of their words and actions on others. In this article, the authors describe four categories of training programs that leaders or leadership teams can use to help them overcome their blind spots. To help people navigate the profound…
It’s difficult to keep human biases from creeping into AI. But there are steps that companies can take address this growing challenge. This article focuses on what IBM has done to advance fairer, more transparent, and more accurate AI, and what other companies can learn from them. First, create an effective AI ethics board. Then,…
If you’re a manager who handles stress with ease, while your boss and team become wound ever tighter, you may give the unfortunate impression that you don’t care about the work or your colleagues. Being cool under stress is an asset, but your colleagues may read your unruffled nature as “nonchalance.” This perception could hurt your career…
The clamor for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to lose their royal titles has been steadily growing for months.With every new video interview, every new political statement, and every new trash-for-cash deal signed, the demand for action from the royal family has grown.It seems we’re edging ever-closer to the day Queen Elizabeth steps in and…
The Dow Jones rallied 680 points on Wednesday.Election volatility saw huge gains for healthcare and tech stocks.Hopes of fiscal stimulus are alive again after Mitch McConnell’s constructive comments.Election volatility was back mid-week, as the presidential election swang in the direction of Joe Biden. Weak U.S. data didn’t stop the Dow Jones from rallying over 700…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by as much as 270 points on Wednesday.There is no clear winner yet to the U.S. presidential election as votes are still being counted in key battleground states.A delayed result makes passing additional fiscal stimulus in the coming weeks unlikely.The Dow and broader U.S. stock market traded higher on…
November 04, 2020 Google and Facebook became multibillion-dollar juggernauts by stockpiling data and using it to sell advertising. Governments can now track their citizens en masse. Where will this “surveillance capitalism” lead? Dr. Carissa Véliz from the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford joins Azeem Azhar to consider what’s wrong with…
It’s been well-established that AI-driven systems are subject to the biases of their human creators — we unwittingly “bake” biases into systems by training them on biased data or with “rules” created by experts with implicit biases. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The good news is that more strategic use of AI systems — through “blind…
What is it about virtual presenting that can feel so unnerving? The lack of audience response, the inability to “read the room,” and the lack of direct eye contact all increase our anxiety. Recreating the back and forth of a conversation — even in a webinar — can help you feel more connected to your audience, which…