Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

Despite all the talk about STEM fields, I see marketing as the seminal sector for our future economy.

That means humans with strong math and analytic skills, humans who are comfortable working with computers because they understand their operation, and humans who intuitively grasp how computers can be used for marketing and for other non-techie tasks. It’s not just about programming skills; it is also often about developing the hardware connected w

Again, it is about blending the cognitive strengths of humans and computers.

The ability to mix technical knowledge with solving real-world problems is the key, not sheer number-crunching or programming for its own sake. Number-crunching skills will be turned over to the machines sooner or later.

That means better jobs and higher wages for a lot of women in this new world of work, without a comparable upgrade for a lot of the men.

workers more and more will come to be classified into two categories. The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the skills of the computer, or is the computer doing better without you? Worst of all, are you competing against the computer? Are computers helping people in Chin

The growing value of conscientiousness in the workplace helps women do better than men at work and in colleges and universities.

If you’re a young male hothead who just can’t follow orders, and you have your own ideas about how everything should be done, you’re probably going to have an ever-tougher time in the labor markets of the future. There won’t be much room for a “rebel without a cause” or, for that matter, a rebel with a cause. It’s not surprising that teen employmen

Team production makes the quality of “conscientiousness” a more important quality in laborers.