Keep your eyes peeled for this book! Our very own Matt Beane Beane writes about how intelligent machines are changing the workplace. Make sure to check out this article about The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines: shorturl.at/fkGK6 🙏

Congrats to UCSB TM's Matt Beane. He turned more than a decade of research into his first book, The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines, to explain how to protect skills in a world filled with intelligent robots and AI engineering.ucsb.edu/news/code-buil…

ChatGPT Lessons for #Managers
* ChatGPT won't replace training.
* Managers need support to create well-designed work.
* Managers need healthy jobs, too.
* Managers must learn #ChatGPT prompting skills.
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The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines is off to the printer!

Nearly four years ago, I began the messy, ill-advised journey of writing it, and early praise says it delivers.

Pre-order, learn more: theskillcodebook.com

#TheSkillCode 🧬

Congratulations to our clients who were medalists for Axiom's annual Business Book Awards for their timely, insightful work! 👏

🥇 Sheena Iyengar (Sheena S. Iyengar)

🥈 Barbara Wixom

🥇 Mark Esposito (@Exp_Mark)

🥇 Paul Leonardi (@pleonardi1)

Earlier this week, Stanford Digital Fellow Matt Beane joined us for a fascinating talk about how workers and automation can complement each other.

Missed the seminar? Watch now 👇

digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/event/matt-bea…

UC Santa Barbara’s New Venture Fair is this Thursday, April 25 at 5PM, at Corwin Pavilion. The Fair will highlight the business ideas of 18 student teams in a trade show format, complete with product demonstrations and poster board presentations 🌟

RSVP: eventcreate.com/e/technology-m…

We were honored to welcome Roland Nassim, an Associate Director of AbbVie, to our undergrad strategy course (TMP120) at UCSB TM to share his insights on strategic management & innovation in the biopharmaceutical industry 🌟

Quick, thoughts on business closure! If all that’s coming up is bankruptcy and other negatives, check out this article from Jessica Santana about how such biases are leading to missed opportunities: shorturl.at/bkDW4 #entrepreneurship #businessclosure #research

Meeting with sekou shortly. Great researcher, super interesting work, visiting us UCSB TM to give a talk.

What are we going to talk about? His paper? Of course. But what else? Always a key question.

Only ChatGPT could handle it, and... wow:

chat.openai.com/share/65610a1c…

The Specter of Skills Inequality

genAI allows us to get better output, faster - and learn faster, too. But only if we have resources: talent, networks, training, time. We don't want the future determined by those forces alone.

wildworldofwork.org/p/the-specter-…

Wow. Don't know why, but seeing this number got me.

So grateful and excited to engage with a growing audience through Wild World of Work (my S*bst@ck).

I started this thing in October!

wildworldofwork.org

Thank you Jason Spievak for an engaging and entertaining discussion on quantifying the market opportunity. Save the date for the New Venture Fair, Thursday, April 25th at Corwin Pavilion 🙏

The New Venture Program had another great mentor feedback night! 20 mentors attended last night's session to give our students feedback on their progress with customer segments and revenue models. Thank you Woodstock's Pizza for always keeping us fed! 🙏