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Creativity, Intuition and the Algorithm, with Tammy Erickson
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Creativity, Intuition and the Algorithm, with Tammy Erickson

Tammy Erickson
Global Peter Drucker Forum, 2015
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In her candid, eloquent oration, Tammy Erickson, an adjunct professor of organizational behavior at London Business School, warns that the knowledge worker may become an endangered species in the 21st century. She paints a bleak picture of the future of knowledge work, a future where large cohorts of workers will become obsolete. Though Erickson’s talk ends on a positive note, her optimism fails to offset the gloom she forecasts. getAbstract believes knowledge workers across all sectors ought to consider and prepare for the grim future Erickson predicts.

Take-Aways

  • As technology continues to advance and develop, it will “virtually eliminate” knowledge work.
  • Only craftspeople such as artists and musicians are impervious to the threat of technological unemployment.
  • Machines will impinge to varying degrees on all six components of knowledge work: “to share or disseminate expertise, to create new expertise, to organize information, to assess and recommend, to decide,” and “to innovate.”

About the Speaker

Executive adviser Tammy Erickson is an adjunct professor of organizational behavior at London Business School.

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