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A better option is attention management: Prioritize the people and projects that matter, and it won’t matter how long anything takes. Attention management is the art of focusing on getting things done for the right reasons, in the right places and at the right moments.   NYTIMES.COM/ A few years ago during a break in a leadership class I was teaching, a manager named Michael walked up looking unsettled. His boss had told him he needed to be more productive, so he had spent a few hours analyzing how he spent his time. He had already cut his nonessential meetings. He couldn’t find an...

According to the Burning Glass study, about 42% of all employees could one day find themselves replaced by artificial intelligence. By contrast, hybrid jobs are so complex, and rely so heavily on expert judgment calls and “soft” skills like empathy and imagination, that Burning Glass predicts automation could eventually take over only 12% of them. FORTUNE.COM / If you’ve been looking around for a new job lately, and especially if you’ve been working in your field for a decade or two, you may have noticed that more and more companies are looking for combinations of skills that aren’t us...

Governments built the current systems and institutions of international cooperation to address nineteenth- and twentieth-century problems. But in today’s complex and fast-paced digital world, these structures cannot operate at “Internet speed.” FORBES.KZ/ Recognizing this, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres last year assembled a high-level panel – co-chaired by Melinda Gates and Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma – to propose ways to strengthen digital governance and cooperation. (Fadi Chehadé, a co-author of this article, is also a member.) It is hoped that the panel’s final repo...

Con una ganancia de casi 100.000 millones de euros en 2018, la petrolera saudí supera el resultado neto de Apple, Facebook y Microsoft juntas Moody’s ha informado de que la firma alcanzó en 2018 una producción de 13,6 millones de barriles de petróleo al día y que su facturación neta se situó en 227.776 millones de euros. Fitch, por su parte, ha detallado que las ganancias antes de intereses, impuestos, depreciación y amortización fue de unos 200.000 millones de euros. El beneficio neto de la petrolera estatal no solo superó el de grandes empresas internacionales como Apple y Facebook —5...