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Daily Inspiration: "Every single trend is both an existential threat and a transformative opportunity at the same moment in time!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

The buzz is that everyone is going to lose their job.

After all, that's what the media is telling everyone with breathless coverage such as this headline from the Washington Post: "ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners." The subheading? "Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones."

This is the topic I took on two days ago when five Chicago area contractor union organizations had me in for a packed session on the impact of AI on the construction industry. Known as MARBA (the Mid-American Regional Bargaining Association), the organizations that participated in bringing me included the Great Lakes Construction Association (GLCA), Midwest Wall & Ceiling Contractors Association, Chicagoland AGC, the Mason Contractors Association of Greater Chicago, and the Underground Contractors Association.

Think about what these folks have been hearing - that AI is going to doom the typical construction worker, and that robots will be doing all the work. It's all a part of the hype and hysteria that surrounds AI, so let's take a look at how I took that topic on during my talk, by going through the slides I shared.

#AIImpact #Innovation #FutureOfWork #Automation #Opportunity #Adaptability #Transformation #WorkSmarter #JobEvolution #techtrends

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2024/10/daily-i

Managing project data manually is frustrating and time-consuming? You need a way to stay organized without extra effort! 💡 This is where #macros are a game-changer.

If you're an OpenProject user and don’t use macros yet, no worries – they’re easy to use once you get the hang of them. 🤓 And so helpful!

📖 Read our blog to learn how macros in OpenProject can save you time and nerves: openproject.org/blog/how-to-us

‘The study found that people who work remotely four or more days a week can reduce their carbon footprint by up to 54 percent’ 🤯👉🏻 scientificamerican.com/article

After reading that mind-blowing article, one can only wonder: why aren't we all, knowledge Web workers, doing that already? What's, or better said, who's stopping us? 🤔

Scientific AmericanWorking Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee's Carbon FootprintBy not going into the office, an at-home worker can cut greenhouse emissions in excess of 50 percent if they take energy-conservation steps

🚀 Exciting News! Just released a new YouTube video on how to supercharge your productivity with Smart Canvas in Google Docs! 📈

In today's fast-paced work environment, we're all juggling multiple tools from different vendors. But what if I told you there's a way to make a bunch of them work seamlessly together? Introducing the updated Smart Canvas in Google Docs - the productivity powerhouse you didn't know existed! 💪✨

Learn how to:
🗓️ Effortlessly schedule meetings from Google Docs with the date picker
📧 Draft and preview emails within Google Docs before easily sending
📂 Insert Google Drive files directly into your documents and preview them with ease
🔗 Replace lengthy links with smart chips for cleaner looking documents

Plus, discover how to add the newly released third-party support and make your Workspace even more efficient. 🛠️

Watch the video now to unlock a world of productivity possibilities!
🎥 youtu.be/FBln-gDUnd0

Let's make work smarter, not harder! 💼🚀 #Productivity #SmartCanvas #GoogleDocs #WorkSmarter #EfficiencyHacks #YouTube #Boost #Feditips

‘Spontaneity and management are potentially more effective in the office’ 👉🏻 forbes.com/sites/markmurphy/20

Is it? Colour me skeptic 🤔

‘Collaboration, culture and leadership could potentially benefit from working in person, but just being in person does not automatically improve any of those issues’

Intentional comes to mind, frankly. W.r.t. #DistributedWork, are we trying our hardest yet? 🤯👎🏻

ForbesReturning To The Office Does Not Magically Improve Collaboration, Culture Or LeadershipBy Mark Murphy

‘The pandemic didn’t create distributed work, the laptop did’ 👉🏻 seths.blog/2023/05/the-new-way

An uncomfortable, but superb blog post by #SethGodin

‘It takes a different set of leadership and management skills to create the conditions for effective distributed work. But it’s incredibly powerful when you get it right’

(‘The system comes for each of us ’ 🤯👉🏻 seths.blog/song/)

Seth's BlogThe new way of workAmazon is the last one. They are probably the last huge company where hundreds of thousands of people will be surveilled, measured and ordered to follow the rule book. The pandemic didn’t cre…

‘Rational concern is not pessimism’ 👉🏻 linkedin.com/posts/rhappe_the-

Brilliant piece by @rhappe! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

C. Rice’s comment is pure gold 👉🏻 ‘It's a sign of the sickness of our tech-addled culture that offering substantive and informed critique around the (quite probable) negative impacts of something is deemed pessimism and that we should be ashamed of it. Rational concern is not pessimism

Our business culture is infected with toxic optimism' 🤯

www.linkedin.comRachel Happe on LinkedIn: The AI Apocalypse and the End of Organizations | 14 commentsI am typically not so pessimistic, but I am worried about what will happen to people as AI takes hold. I hope I am wrong. #FutureOfWork #AI… | 14 comments on LinkedIn

‘The industry has been so focused on optimizing efficiency, productivity, and workflows that they’ve forgotten the key ingredient for creating successful outcomes: humans’ 👉🏻 atlassian.com/blog/announcemen

‘[…] great people with powerful tools and intuitive ways of working, make formidable teams that can really reach for the world’s most complex problems’ 👈🏻 Oooh, you certainly got my attention there! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Work Life by AtlassianPutting teams at the center of modern work with our new Ways of Working offering - Work Life by AtlassianOur coaches are here to help your team focus on the "who, how, and why" of work.

‘their teams lost an average 7.47 hours—nearly an entire day—to poor communications a week. Based on an average salary of $66,967, the lost time translates to a cost of $12,506 per employee a year’ 👉🏻 wsj.com/articles/so-many-ways-

After 26+ years, it never ceases to amaze me how we keep blaming collaborative tools for our very own misbehaviours & lack of negotiation skills when collaborating. Diogenes complex galore 😔

WSJSo Many Ways to Communicate at Work, So Many Ways to MisfireWorkplaces have become saturated with ways to talk, often breeding mistakes and misunderstandings

‘As long as we rely on social-media sites to curate what we read, we allow them to control what we read, and their interests are not our interests’ 👉🏻 archive.is/85BTT

I’m going to keep coming back and refer to this fine piece every time folks ask me about what RSS newsfeeds are all about. Taking back control of #MediaTools and head back to #SocialTools surely is quite a conversation starter for those who *still* care 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

‘[…] while leaders are often well-intentioned, many are “out of touch” and are upset that workers won’t return to doing things like they were done pre-pandemic’ 👉🏻 fastcompany.com/90885232/ceos-

Why should they? Why can’t they have, instead, a two-way conversation IN THE OPEN (i.e. via #ESNs) to understand the needs & wants of employees, and adjust accordingly? What’s stopping them? 🤔

Continued thread

‘The benefits of remote work, including increased productivity, improved focus and concentration, and improved work-life balance, are too significant to be ignored’ 👉🏻 linkedin.com/pulse/new-study-u

Oh, allow me to ask a question: why are we then ignoring the obvious? I mean, at some point we should transition from work = physical space to work = a state of mind, don't you think? 🤯

www.linkedin.comNew Study Uncovers the Secrets of Remote Work ProductivityThe COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses to adapt to remote work, and the results have been surprising. A new study from the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago found that remote work saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022.

‘[…] remote workers are often willing to accept lower wages in exchange for the flexibility of working from home’ 👉🏻 linkedin.com/pulse/new-study-u

Errr, excuse me, but that's *not* the case. It's just certain people (=management) want you to believe we’d be willing to do that. In reality, we *just* want to be paid what we are worth, regardless of where we are working. That simple 🤯

www.linkedin.comNew Study Uncovers the Secrets of Remote Work ProductivityThe COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses to adapt to remote work, and the results have been surprising. A new study from the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago found that remote work saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022.

Oooh, look at that! First we had:

FOMO = Fear Of Missing Out & then
JOMO = Joy Of Missing Out

And now, apparently, we seem to have:

FOLO = Fear Of Logging Off

I guess I know *now* the concept to describe why I am not online vast majority of the time, right? 👇🏻

JOLO = Joy of Logging Off 🤯

PS. Oooh, did I also mention I am a *huge* fan of JOMO? 😍👍🏻