Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

Again, it is about blending the cognitive strengths of humans and computers.

If you’re a young male hothead who just can’t follow orders, and you have your own ideas about how everything should be done, you’re probably going to have an ever-tougher time in the labor markets of the future. There won’t be much room for a “rebel without a cause” or, for that matter, a rebel with a cause. It’s not surprising that teen employmen

Computer nerds will indeed do well, but not everyone will have to become a computer nerd.

This is the wave that will lift you or that will dump you.

It sounds a little silly, but making high earners feel better in just about every part of their lives will be a major source of job growth in the future. At some point it is hard to sell more physical stuff to high earners, yet there is usually just a bit more room to make them feel better. Better about the world. Better about themselves. Better ab

There is now a joke that “a modern textile mill employs only a man and a dog—the man to feed the dog, and the dog to keep the man away from the machines.”

workers more and more will come to be classified into two categories. The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the skills of the computer, or is the computer doing better without you? Worst of all, are you competing against the computer? Are computers helping people in Chin

The growing value of conscientiousness in the workplace helps women do better than men at work and in colleges and universities.

When it comes to these complex tasks, people have to know what they are doing, they have to want to learn, and they have to want to cooperate with their fellow workers.