The 9 faces of your artificial boss. Which one to choose?

A few days ago, in a blog post, I showed a robotic Nicholas Copernicus, who, if equipped with a sense of activities, could be your boss. Can you imagine having just such a boss – you walk into your manager’s office and there sits Nicholas Copernicus, as if he were alive. He’s talking to you about the previous week’s tasks, you’re planning the development of the project in the following months, until suddenly…. A teammate calls you and tells you

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How to find out what a manager really does? Part 4

In the previous post, I described how a measurement tool that records managerial activities works. Let me remind you – it measures successive states of resources (primary organizational terms) over time, which change due to processes (derivative organizational terms) initiated by the manager and his team. But the question arises: where to mount these measuring tools to capture what the manager is really doing? Laboratory conditions could only be used to a limited extent – the measurement error in relation

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How to find out what a manager really does? Part 3

You have learned from previous posts that, first, in order to replace some human work, it is possible to make a film of how that work is done and then try to replace a human in it, and second, that we cannot make a film depicting cognitive activities. Managerial activities are precisely cognitive activities. Can we really not? Let’s go back to the posts in which I described what the world of a robotic manager should look like. This world

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