Machine Learning Meets Star Trek

Dateline: October 6, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. There is a lot of hype about the brave new world possible with machine learning, and it's getting harder to separate the hype from reality.  Machine learning is a lot of things, and it's been around (in various other forms) for a very long time.  Today we see a convergence of … [Read more...]

Google’s Role for Managers

Dateline: December 20, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week we look at a recent Harvard Business Review article by Professor David Garvin, which was commented on by Drake Baer at Fast Company.  The topic is the role of managers at Google, who famously eliminated managers in an effort to be flat, encourage innovation and … [Read more...]