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As workers interact with ever-smarter machines, the demand for soft skills is beginning to surge.
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Five Fifty: Better decisions

– The path to better decision-making means untangling the crossed web of accountability—one decision at a time.

Five Fifty: Decision factories
– Want to reduce the staggering cost of bad decisions? Turn your organization into a “decision factory.”

Five Fifty: Gut instincts
– Should corporate executives trust their intuition? Sometimes yes, but other times no, says Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahnemann. Four tests can help you decide.

Five Fifty: Genius after the fact
– Did you know it all along? Then you may be a victim of hindsight bias. 

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Five Fifty: 100 projects at a time
– Trying to launch new tech-powered businesses—while upgrading the tech quotient of your old ones? Better hope you can multitask.

Five Fifty: Innovating bold
– Want a more innovative company? Check your aspirations—and your willingness to make tough

Five Fifty: Fast and modular
– Want to move faster, fly higher, and generally perform like a top technology company? Try the modular approach to platforms.

Five Fifty: Slow burn
– It’s axiomatic that as economies grow, energy demand increases at a similar rate. But renewables may finally break the connection.

Five Fifty: Defund your darlings
– Better to give than to take away? Not when axing underperforming projects and businesses.

Five Fifty: Tech for the greater good
– Can advanced technologies like AI improve the well-being of humans? Only if we more carefully manage its deployment, and its effects... on human labor.

Five Fifty: Lost in translation
– Hire as many data scientists as you can find—you’ll still be lost without translators to connect analytics with real... business value.

Five Fifty: Call your broker
– Fed up with turf wars, silos, and other company dysfunctions? Energize the “brokers” who knit together your organization’s formal... and informal networks.

Five Fifty: Meeting time
– Want to better manage your time? Start by looking at the meetings that consume the clear majority of the average executive’s... schedule

Five Fifty: Getting small
– Small, independent teams are the lifeblood of agile. Here’s how senior executives can help them thrive.

Five Fifty: The need for speed
– Changes in what people want, and where they want it, means companies must move fast—without breaking things.
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