Reinventing Jobs

A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work

By: Ravin Jesuthasan, John W. Boudreau

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Your organization has made the decision to adopt automation and artificial intelligence technologies. Now, you face difficult and stubborn questions about how to implement that decision: How, when, and where should we apply automation in our organization? Is it a stark choice between humans versus machines? How do we stay on top of these technological trends as work and automation continue to evolve?

Work and human capital experts Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau present leaders with a new set of tools to answer these daunting questions. Transcending the endless debate about humans being replaced by machines, Jesuthasan and Boudreau show how smart leaders instead are optimizing human-automation combinations that are not only more efficient but also generate higher returns on improved performance.

Based on groundbreaking primary research, Reinventing Jobs provides an original, structured approach of four distinct steps - deconstruct, optimize, automate, and reconfigure - to help leaders reinvent how work gets bundled into jobs and create optimal human-machine combinations. Jesuthasan and Boudreau show leaders how to continuously reexamine what a job really is, and they provide the tools for identifying the pivotal performance value of tasks within jobs and how these tasks should be reconstructed into new, more optimal combinations.

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Very timely, insight, pool, and relevant material

I just finished a course on artificial intelligence in business. I ran across this book and it has to be one of the best books as reference material. It’s interesting to compare and contrast where we are today and to what they were talking about when the book was written. They hit the nail right on the head. Their material is still impactful today.

self-help book

it's a steady stream of pushing ideas together to imply that industry growth and job markets always increase with the development of automation. does not acknowledge centralization of ownership and the very similar to socialist economic causalities.

this book plays on confirmation bias. it does not acknowledge how automation rapidly increasing job opportunities could lead to an inverse effect at a critical point in the technological development.

there's also a failure to acknowledge where automation can be in fact prohibited. overlooking as well how mixed economies AR the true success story. free market, capitalism, socialism, all ingredients of a mixed economy. any of these left unchecked will consume itself to death.

this is more of a self-help book too emotionally soothe adoption of Automation and artificial intelligence which in all honesty is not a bad thing, am I only fought this book for what it leaves out.

if you're a business owner than I highly encourage Frugal but regular integration of new technologies. human optimization rather than a machine money tree. stabilize your wealth by having a well-rounded business , rather than trying to just keep up. there's so much to be said. but if you were trying to maximize your profits and you wouldn't have been reading this book to begin with.