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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Would you trust a manager who was a robot? Part 1

Imagine you walk into your boss’s room, and there behind the table sits a human-like robot. However, at first glance you can see that it is not a human, but a machine. Not only is it more powerful than you in terms of physical strength – after all, you won’t be arm-wrestling – but it has learned the project management ways of all the managers in the corporation where you work. You have to ask him to resolve a conflict

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Why can’t you buy yourself a Steve Jobs? Part 1

Have you ever wondered why you can’t buy a manager for your company? It’s not about hiring a human manager, but buying a machine manager of a certain type, such as one who manages the production or marketing department. Making such a manager digitally shouldn’t be so difficult after all, and yet… there is no manager store! Why? On the one hand, there are a number of phenomena that should cause one to eventually be able to buy oneself a

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Could your boss be a robot?

Have you ever wondered what your job would be like if your boss was a robot? If you are the boss – how much would your day change if you could buy a robot manager? And finally – if you set up two identical companies, selling the same products, which one would be more efficient and achieve better results – the first, managed by a human, or the second, whose boss would be a robot? I asked myself these questions

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