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The unintended consequence of forgetting people in the age of the machines While there is a fair bit of moral panic over the idea that machines are going to take all our jobs — some reports say that robots and artificial intelligence will replace almost a third of the workforce in the UK in the next 15 years – today it is more important than ever to keep your people front of mind. Especially when considering recruitment and succession planning. Previously a wash, rinse and re

I’ve previously written about how succession planning is going to change in the Information Age. That, instead of grooming mini-me managers and leaders, we’re going to have to focus on reskilling people as their roles get encroached on by artificial intelligence. Plus, we’re going to have to start hiring people who, firstly, can work with machines, and, secondly, are flexible enough to adjust their roles and careers as the machines get more proficient – in the near future, in

The rise of the machines doesn’t sound like science fiction to me anymore. Many of us will remember a time in our career before cell phones and emails. Now we hear of semi-autonomous drones and self-driving cars — technology is advancing at an eye-watering rate. And with these advances come the naysayers and their apocalyptic predictions: if you don’t get run over by a self-driving car, or accidentally bombed by a drone, at the very least you are likely to lose your job to a