Most people fall into one of two unhappy camps at work: they’re either too passive (ideas ignored, credit stolen, workload dumped) or too aggressive (labeled difficult, excluded from opportunities). I’ve been in both camps at one time or another. I was unhappy in both. But there is another camp, an unfortunately small camp, but one…

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Two separate reports speak to worker optimism about the technology but also concern that employers aren’t listening to their input regarding AI adoption.

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These workers are “proactively upskilling and adapting to new technologies” and can be empowered with the right training to drive growth at organizations, Adecco said.

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One common challenge for leaders is how to approach the concept of failure. The mantra takes many forms, like “move fast and break things” or “fail fast,” the idea being that we learn from failure and improve. 

But what goes unspoken is usually the final word of the mantra: non-catastrophically. If we’re upgrading the customer database and we fail fast and delete it, never to be recovered, we have a problem. This is an unsafe failure.

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