Humility Is the New Smart

Notes

Introduction

1 A discussion of historical workplace automation and its impact on the meaning of work and the role of management can be found in Shoshana Zuboff’s book In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (New York: Basic Books, 1988).

2 Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (New York: Norton, 2014), 132.

3 Martin Ford, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (New York: Basic, 2015), xi.

4 Ibid.

5 Elaine Pofeldt, “Shocker: Forty Percent of Workers Now Have ‘Contingent’ Jobs, Says U.S. Government,” Forbes, May 25, 2015.

6 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible ...