How to find out what a manager really does? Part 2

In the previous post, I described how to create any mechanical robot to replace a given job, of course, if we can produce good enough mechanical mechanisms to simulate, for example, the actions of arms, legs, etc., and if we can equip such a robot with a human sense (for example, to judge the loudness of some phenomenon or to observe the environment). But what to do with another type of human work, which is thinking? We’re doing just fine

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How to find out what a manager really does? Part 1

I’m going to give you a simple idea on how to find out what a manager really does. The idea is so simple that you will find it unbelievable that no one has done it before. But if it’s so simple, why can’t you buy yourself a Steve Jobs? Let’s take a fairly simple example of a profession that has long been automated: the barista. This is a person who professionally selects, brews and serves coffee. Everyone knows that today

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Do managers remember what they did in a particular situation?

Most research in management science is conducted using survey techniques and questionnaires. This is a standard that, at least in Poland, newer and newer students of this science are accepting, and older students are continuing the tradition. I have repeatedly written in my scientific and popular articles about the low reliability and accuracy of such surveys. As a result, it is difficult to build knowledge about what a manager really does. Of course, there are thousands, if not hundreds of

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Could a robotic Nicolaus Copernicus be your boss?

When we think of an artificial manager, it keeps coming to mind what this new creature that will move into your boss’s office sooner or later might look like. Should your artificial manager take the form of a human like Sophia, a C-3PO-style robot from Star Wars, an all-powerful Robocop or just a single red point of light like HAL 9000 from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey? What your artificial manager will be like, we’ll see in a few

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Will machines take away our jobs? A report from DAVOS – and yet so will managers!

Increasingly in the media there are analyses of how automation will affect our lives, which professions will continue to exist, and which will be replaced by robots or algorithms, if doing a given job does not require the physical form of a human, a machine moving or waving lifts. I watch the results of such analyses with increasing surprise, because the professions given there have been constantly the same for almost twenty years. However, now I have found an exception!

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