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Maria Gurova

In The Future, The Whole World Will Be A Classroom | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and... - 1 views

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KE Social structuring technology learning

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  • Maria Gurova on 18 Jul 13
     
    please watch the video conversation, but here are my brief takeaways: - There is a shift form institutional structures (corporations, centralized governments, educational establishments) to social structuring - Social Structuring - creating value by aggregating micro contributors by large networks using social tools and technology Key patterns in future of learning are 1. Content comments 2. New Foundations 3. Global Learning arbitrage 4. Embedded and embodied learning 5. Human-software symbiosis 6. Socialstructured work Major shifts in learning: - from episodic to continuous learning - from content conveyors to content curators - from working at one scale to working at up&down the scale - from degrees to reputation metrics - from grades to continuous feedback
Maria Gurova

Motivating Millennials Takes More than Flexible Work Policies - 0 views

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Social HR trends talent management Workforce shifting organizational structure motivation openness flexibility flexible hours work life balance work from home risk-tolerant environment feedback

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  • A 2015 Gallup Poll found that Millennials are the least engaged cohort in the workplace, with only 28.9% saying that they are engaged at work. This, combined with high turnover rates and greater freelance and entrepreneurial opportunities, means that if companies want to retain these valued workers, they will have to double their efforts to meet Millennials where they are
  • A 2015 report on Millennials from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce emphasized flex-time as one way to do this — it found that three out of four Millennials reported that work-life balance drives their career choice
  • Multiple studies have revealed that Millennials are keen to see their work as addressing larger societal concerns
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  • the number one reason this cohort leaves a job is directly related to a boss. Other research has found that Millennials want communication from the boss more frequently than any other generation in the workforce.
  • Millennials are strongly drawn to the “anything is possible” spirit of entrepreneurship. Rather than chase these workers away, companies that embrace a risk-tolerant culture and promote learning and experimentation will benefit from the heightened energy around innovation
  • “[Millennials] expect to work in communities of mutual interest and passion – not structured hierarchies,”
  • Shifts in organizational design—including fewer management layers, matrix structures, shared services, and outsourcing
  • Maria Gurova on 03 Apr 16
     
    Key factors that influences Millennials' workplace choices and keep them loyal
Maria Gurova

Reinventing the company | The Economist - 2 views

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Technology Social Economy Generation Conflict Future of Talent workforce New Establishment Hybrid Business Models Generation Y Shared Economy Organizational Structure Generation Gap

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  • Across industries, disrupters are reinventing how the business works. Less obvious, and just as important, they are also reinventing what it is to be a company.
  • The rise of big financial institutions (that hold about 70% of the value of America’s stockmarkets) has further weakened the link between the people who nominally own companies and the companies themselves.
  • The number of companies listed on America’s stock exchanges has fallen by half since 1996, partly because of consolidation, but also because talented managers would sooner stay private.
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  • Astute investors like Jorge Paulo Lemann, of 3G Capital, specialise in buying public companies and running them like private ones, with lean staffing and a focus on the long term.
  • But the most interesting alternative to public companies is a new breed of high-potential startups
  • The central difference lies in ownership: whereas nobody is sure who owns public companies, startups go to great lengths to define who owns what.
  • New companies also exploit new technology, which enables them to go global without being big themselves.
  • They can incorporate online for a few hundred dollars, raise money from crowdsourcing sites such as Kickstarter, hire programmers from Upwork, rent computer-processing power from Amazon, find manufacturers on Alibaba, arrange payments systems at Square, and immediately set about conquering the world.
  • Maria Gurova on 24 Oct 15
     
    The hot and innovative private startups challenge the existing corporate structures used in the public companies. in order to attract and hold the young talent public companies must adapt new organization structures and people management approaches. can private business change the notion of what is a corporation or are they simply not influential enough?
Maria Gurova

Pixar Vets Reinvent Speech Recognition So It Works for Kids | WIRED - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 26 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Though characters like Woody and Buzz Lightyear are wonderfully realistic and lovable, the relationship that kids have with them is largely one-sided. Kids can hear these characters talk—not only through movies, but games, toys, and other movie merchandise—but they can’t engage them.
  • It was this idea that inspired Jacob to team up with his former Pixar colleague, Martin Reddy, and launch a new company, ToyTalk. The San Francisco-based outfit develops mobile games that let kids have conversations with animated characters—dialogues that can last for hours
  • Known as PullString, it’s equal parts speech recognition engine and script writing tool, and it’s quite a departure from other speech rec tools developed by the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Apple. It’s tailored specifically to kids, whose sentence structure, pitch, and vocal tone have posed challenges for traditional tools.
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  • “The way kids talk and communicate is very different from how adults do, both in terms of how they use language and the fundamental frequencies that come out of their throats,
  • But as he points out, the way today’s children use technology will likely dictate the tech landscape for decades to come. If you can get kids hooked on speech technology young, they’ll stay with it forever.
  • Kids don’t want to ask a monkey character in a game what the weather will be on Tuesday. They want to sing him a song or ask him about life in the zoo.
  • While ToyTalk uses existing third party technology for its raw speech recognition, it works with those partners to develop better recognition models using ToyTalk’s own data. Now, ToyTalk has a trove of some 20 million children’s utterances, which Jacob believes is the largest database of kids conversation in the world
  • “Virtual assistants are awesome when they can answer every question. In our case, it’s the opposite,” Jacob says. “I have to know a lot of things that I’m not able to answer, and redirect the conversation to something that is within character.”
  • And Jacob says some toy companies are already testing PullString to power apps based on existing characters.
  • this technology could give kids a whole new way to play that falls somewhere in between the playground and the imaginary friend. “I think at some deep level if we succeed, we’ll inspire the imagination of kids to talk about things they might not otherwise talk about,”
  • Maria Gurova on 26 Sep 14
     
    the voice rec technology developed by ex-Pixar guy that is targeted to kids. It considers all nuances of kids speech behavior and analyses millions of kids conversations to make interaction with favorite characters within all possible media truly engaging
Vladimir Antonov

Boeing Says It's Made the Lightest Metal Material in the World | Motherboard - 1 views

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  • Its structure is similar to that of a bone, in which the outside is rigid but the inside is mostly hollow
  • to save weight
  • efficient
  • Vladimir Antonov on 21 Oct 15
     
    A new material developed by Boeing is made of metal, but it's so light it can balance delicately on top of a dandelion. The product, called microlattice, is 100 times lighter than styrofoam, according to Boeing, and is made with interconnected hollow tubes.
al_semenchenko

There's A Proposal To Build 1,000 Ft Walls Around An Excavated Central Park | Bored Panda - 1 views

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Technology cities evolution megastructure

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  • Designers Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu want to make New York’s Central Park available to more people by digging down to the bedrock of the park. The idea is to create a 1000-feet tall, 100-feet deep mega structure that provides a total floor area of 7 square miles, which is about 80 times greater than the Empire State Building.
  • “The ambition is to reverse the traditional relationship between landscape and architecture, in a way that every occupiable space has direct connection to the nature,” – say the authors of the proposal that was awarded first place in eVolo’s annual skyscraper competition.
Oleg Batluk

Managing the Soft Skills Gap in Younger Workers - 0 views

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  • If you read the latest headlines, it seems like more and more of young new hires are not working out.
  • They spend half the workday on their devices
  • they often don’t seem to appreciate that they are entering a pre-existing scene
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  • They forget that they are joining an organization with its own mission, history, structure, rules, and culture
  • research at RainmakerThinking, there is an ever-widening “soft skills” gap in the workforce, especially among the newest new young workforce
  • soft skills gap has gotten much worse in recent years
  • Smart managers must not only acknowledge a lack of critical soft skills in their younger workers, they need to work with talent development leaders to find ways to bridge the soft skills gap
  • Oleg Batluk on 04 Apr 16
     
    Many young workers don't fit due to the lack of soft skills
Maria Gurova

What Happens When Millennials Run the Workplace? - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Maybe this is because I’m young, but, like, I don’t think that there is a lot about my personal life that I wouldn’t want to incorporate into what I’m doing professionally,”
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