HR Buzz: Steamboats to Bots • Send in the Coaches

In the First Industrial Revolution we got steam engines, and the next era brought us the assembly line. Then came the digitalization of manufacturing. Now, early in the Fourth Industrial Revolution—or Industry 4.0—robots are becoming routine and artificial intelligence is ordinary.

In its second annual report on how executives around the world are coping and growing amid the cascading changes, Deloitte provides a progress report and identifies four good leader “personas” for today. That and more in this week’s “HR Buzz” featuring the latest workplace trends, surveys, and reports.

It’s Not All Full-Steam Ahead on AI, etc.

The C-suite didn’t ...