• OPTIMIZING BUSINESS SUCCESS IS DEPENDENT ON EFFECTIVE STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING, which begins with clarity & consensus of owners, leaders & partners in Goals and Priorities. A critical factor in achievement is then a Business Plan which specifies Objectives, Tactics and Timelines…
• A.I. IMPACT ON DOWNLINE MANAGEMENT is a critical factor in leadership, as ‘judgement’ is moved quietly into the system… employees experience the system “starting to shape what counts as a good decision… Humans who used to handle exceptions find themselves now sharing judgement with computers, and limited to doing so inside boundaries which the system has already drawn, as employees become translators of invisible authority…” https://savionai.substack.com/p/when-nobody-owns-the-call
• CAN TATTOOS CAUSE CANCER? The evidence is mounting… One study found evidence that tattoos were associated with 20% increase in risk of a rare type of lymphoma… researchers “strongly advise against removal of existing tattoos, since lasers can break down chemicals into even more toxic substances.” [THESCIENTIST.COM]
• “GONE ARE THE DAYS OF DEBATING WHETHER A.I. IS AN ECONOMIC BUBBLE. Having already fallen $800 billion short of profit on the AI boom… an emerging ideology dubbed the ‘Nerd Reich,’ where, instead of democracy, we will have basically tech feudalism…” https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/venture-capitalist-ai-bubble-reset
• AMERICA’S MOVE AWAY FROM GLOBALIZATION – outstanding perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODf_QEONRyw
• THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK: A.I. BRAIN FRY is the latest term for workers “suffering mental fatigue from excessive use or oversight of AI tools beyond their cognitive capacity…” A Harvard Business Review survey found that marketing & human resource departments are suffering worst…
• Half the Iranian-Americans and their families who arrived after the 1979 Revolution now live in California, with nearly a third (some 230,000) residing in Beverly Hills & Westwood – now referred to as ‘Tehrangeles.’ [ECONOMIST]
• “The key to facing the digital future will be driven not by the people with the most Harvard degrees or congressional internships or Instagram followers, but by the highest-energy risk-takers… The framework for the future may be Zionism.” https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/zionism-for-everyone