The Year’s Most Popular Articles from Thinkers360 Thought Leaders (1H’23)

Pre-Employment Personality Assessments Might be Killing Your Ability to Attract Talent

If you’re using personality assessments as part of your talent attraction/hiring strategy, you’re probably turning off some of the best candidates in the market without even realizing it. This week’s newsletter focuses on how these assessments are flawed and some of the hidden risks they pose.

In the intricate dance of leadership, managers often find themselves in a unique and challenging position: the need to be a chameleon, effortlessly adapting to every environment, team, and situation.

Organizational leaders should consider investing in HR technology, embrace AI in HR including Chat GPT, take a data-driven approach to measure impact and foster a culture of innovation.

Business model design is a critical aspect of building a successful business. A business model defines the strategy and structure of a company and provides a framework for decision-making. It is an essential tool entrepreneurs, and managers use to create value, generate revenue, and manage costs.

The end of 2022 has seen a lot of news articles regarding sophisticated artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT, which can answer complex questions with lifelike insight. For the past few weeks, I’ve been asking ChatGPT to answer a few questions about digital health technologies.

Thinkers360 | January 06, 2023 | Logan Harper, MS

“The #industrialmetaverse is simply the consequence of our next phase of #digitalization … Do not ignore it as just the latest hype … You need to have a plan….”

When we are aware that there is no expert on our lives and only people who can ask questions and listen. The cult of the expert is incredibly limiting when it comes to navigating our lives.

I totally believe that a more conceptual approach from a “creative process for product design” can generate very interesting results in automotive design. Now, we also live a paradigm shift in the automotive industry which make the collaboration of freelance product designers especially interesting,

The Chat GPT natural language processing (NLP) paradigm has the potential to change the environment for autonomous vehicles in a number of ways.

Life is all about ‘Continuous, Never Ending Change and Improvement’ (CNECI) as we grow, learn, develop and regenerate.

Motivating people at work can be challenging, but it is essential to building a positive and productive workplace. Understanding the different types of motivation can help you develop strategies to encourage and support your employees.

Chinese researchers are reporting they can break RSA encryption with a contemporary Quantum Computer. Can they?

Discover the advantages and disadvantages of using AI for business decisions, including the risks and potential mitigations to ensure ethical and responsible decision-making. Explore the latest research & best practices for implementing AI systems in business decision-making to optimize performance.

Disrupters tend to focus on getting the business model, rather than merely the product, just right. A series on new Business Models.

As a Board Chair, one of your primary responsibilities is ensuring that your board operates at peak efficiency. This includes bridging the gap between how the board currently operates and how it will need to operate in the future.

An Introduction to Risk Levels in the E.U. AI Act

2023 will bring more discussions on regulating AI. A prime example to get more familiar with is the E.U. AI Act. It outlines 4 types of risks a s classifies them. In this post, we will take a look at what each of these risk types are.

Leading your teams through adverse times and situations can be hard.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves in the tech industry and is changing the way we live and work. One of the most significant applications of AI is in the field of content creation. AI-driven content refers to the use of AI algorithms and tools to create, curate, and manage various forms of digital content.

What does a Proactive approach look like? and What does the Reactive approach look like?

We’ve all heard the adage “Keep It Simple, Stupid.” But, do we really know how to practice this advice? This article offers a view of what keeping it simple looks like.

Innovative Tips for Managing your Sales Teams

Today we’re going to talk about what Jack Sparrow and other characters from popular pirate movies can teach us about marketing.

This is a mere demonstration of why our world is stuck in the repetitive cycle of being breached, paying APT groups, new malware implemented on easy-to-break systems…Through example of a 28-year-old protocol structure being used due to increased needs for the IPs in devices such as the iOT devices

Today is a talent-first era. COURAGE is the key to employing the right individual for the correct position.

As people progressively call on the business sector to take greater action on climate change and social issues, brands increasingly are marketing and communicating their sustainability efforts.

Balancing the Art of Secrecy and Transparency

An interview with global cyber security influencer JC Gaillard

Often people confuse and conflate opinions from experts inside the building with evidence, and it’s not evidence.

The number of cyberattacks and cloud-related security incidents are increasing. The root cause of this situation is the use of piecemeal cybersecurity approaches at the expense of systemic and holistic ones. The Cybersecurity Fortress Design Pattern provides a solution that CIOs should explore.

Digital healthcare is growing and incorporating new and advanced medical technologies. The boom in this sector offers many exciting investment opportunities.

The hype and buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) have died down, and we have entered a new phase of practical use cases. AI is no longer a futuristic concept, but a reality that is transforming the way we live and work.

How AI one ‘prompt’ at a time is taking over…

Product-led selling requires your product or service to be your differentiator. In today’s massively globalised economy offering differentiation is unsustainable. In contrast an Outcome-Based approach is both truly sustainable and more over, the unmet need many clients are seeking!

Over the past ten years, a growing and amplifying awareness of ecological concerns has emerged. Some facts are no longer just a warning of an imminent threat, but a situation of life on earth whose parameters are vastly different from the standard on which the comfort of industrialized countries…

For anxious people, it is all to easy to get hyper focused on tomorrow and the next day. We plot and scheme to prevent imagined, but often unlikely, disasters and try to anticipate every pitfall, every setback that could occur and then mitigate it (often by avoiding an experience altogether).

Diversity and collaboration are key drivers of success in the digital age. Teams that bring together unique backgrounds, skills, and perspectives can lead to smarter, more innovative solutions. Easier said than done so let´s explore it a bit further.

Crisis is certain to strike either your organization or your associates as individuals. Invest in a game plan for responding with intention. It’s easy to focus on health when everything is going well. It’s critical to do so when chaos ensues. Prepare now! I’m booking keynotes for the summer and fall

It’s that time of year again – March Madness is here! What better way to jumpstart it with four of our favorite future of work thought leaders talking about #RemoteWork and #ChatGPT. As a bonus, we’ve also included a replay of one of the greatest episodes of The Geeks, Geezers, and Googlization Show

Conflict is a BIG problem that can make teams thrive if handled effectively. Conversely, customers and employees leave (or lose championship games) when conflict is swept under the rug. Here are my thoughts about best practices for conflict resolution.

Climate change and sustainability are among the greatest challenges society faces; and this also brings tremendous opportunities; in this article, the author explores four simple yet powerful ways of introducing and promoting sustainability in every project, program, and portfolio.

The BNPL model became increasingly popular over the years, particularly among younger consumers who were wary of traditional credit. The model was seen as a more flexible and potentially less risky alternative to credit cards.

How do we make company plans? Do we know what happens when plans meet reality? How often we make adjustments to prevent operating losses get out of control? What can we do to make better systems decisions?

The agile mindset is a way of thinking and working that embraces change and uncertainty. It is about being proactive and responsive and about continuously learning and improving. It is about working together as a team to deliver value to customers quickly and efficiently.