Lior Arussy

People love to talk about innovation but when it comes to actually changing how we work, suddenly everyone starts dragging their feet. Lior Arussy, author of Next is Now, joins us to talk about the different ways we resist change, how to spot that resistance, and eventually how to overcome it.

Lior Arussy is an author, visionary, consultant and creative catalyst in the areas of creating delightful customer  experiences and executing profitable customer strategies. For his thought leadership and contribution to the industry, Mr. Arussy received CRM Magazine’s “2003 Influential Leaders” award and served as a juror on Fast Company’s Customer First Awards 2005. Prior to establishing Strativity Group, Mr. Arussy held executive positions at Hewlett-Packard and other companies.

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H James Wilson

No, you are not going to be replaced by a robot but a robot might be your new coworker. While automation is here to stay, research has shown that human and machine collaboration consistently outperforms pure automation. H. James Wilson, author of Human + Machine, joins us to talk about the future of the working world.

H. James Wilson is Managing Director of Information Technology and Business Research at Accenture Research. Prior to joining Accenture, he led research and innovation programs at Babson Executive Education and at Bain & Company. Author of The New Entrepreneurial Leader, and a long-time contributor to Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal, Wilson researches the impact of emerging technologies on worker and organizational performance. He holds a BA from College of the Holy Cross and a MA from Boston College. He is based in San Francisco.

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Alison Green

After 11 years of writing the popular and informative Ask a Manager blog, Alison Green has seen it all, from dramatic exit interviews to the myriad ways our coworkers can get on our nerves. Throughout all the advice there seemed to be a common refrain: just talk about it. Now she’s written a book called Ask a Manager, filled with advice and scripts for how to deal with issues at work, from the mundane to the extreme.

Alison Green writes the popular Ask a Manager blog, where she answers readers’ questions daily on workplace and management issues, from what to say when you drank too much at a company party to what to do if you’re allergic to your boss’s perfume. Bravo TV called Alison “the Dear Abby of the work world,” and her work has been featured in USA Today, The Wall St. Journal, CBS News, ABC News, Glamour, Time, Inc., Money, and more. She also writes the “Ask a Boss” column for New York Magazine and is the author of Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work (Ballantine/Random House).

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