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The Ghost Workers Powering The AI Economy

The Horizons Tracker

Whereas most of the workers recruited via platforms such as Mechanical Turk operate as independent contractors, at Samasource, they are full-time employees with salaries and benefits. This means they have to go beyond insecure gig work and offer people the trappings traditionally associated with a career.

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Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks

Harvard Business Review

Operations in a Connected World. But it turns out these methods don’t just have to do with technology and operations. But this is not nearly frequent enough for Deere and companies facing fierce competition for rare technical talent from venture-funded startups and big software and services competitors like Amazon and Google.

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Can a Big Company Innovate Like a Start-Up?

Harvard Business Review

In contrast, employees of large established firms operate with a different sense of risk and reward , reassured by financial security and structure. They want the enterprise as a whole to be successful, but are more motivated by the challenges of their particular function and the ability to advance in their careers.

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The Innovation Mismatch: "Smart Capital" and Education Innovation

Harvard Business Review

It crashes the latest version of the operating system that just got installed. We tried it at the NewSchools Venture Fund, where I used to work. Previously, these markets operated on a state-by-state basis, and often on a district-by-district basis. It doesn't work on the new hardware the school just bought.