Steven Levy, senior writer at Wired and author of "The Perfect Thing" and "Insanely Great."

John Lees, career strategist and author of "How to Get a Job You'll Love."

Jodi Glickman, founder of the communication training firm Great on the Job and contributor to the "HBR Guide to Getting a Job."

James Bessen, economist and former software executive, on what we can learn from 19th century mill workers about innovation, wages, and technology.

Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School, builds upon the theory of disruptive innovation for which he is well-known. He speaks about his new book examining how successful companies know how to grow.

Joan C. Williams, director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, discusses serious misconceptions that the U.S. managerial and professional elite in the United States have about the so-called working class. Many people conflate "working class" with "poor"--but the working class is, in fact, the elusive, purportedly disappearing middle class. Williams argues that economic mobility has declined, and explains why suggestions like “they should move to where the jobs are” or "they should just go to college" are insufficient. She has some ideas for policy makers to create more and meaningful jobs for this demographic, an influential voting bloc. Williams is the author of the new book, “White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America.”

Herminia Ibarra, a professor at the London Business School, argues that job transitions — even exciting ones that you've chosen — can come with all kinds of unexpected emotions. Going from a job that is known and helped define your identity to a new position brings all kinds of challenges. Ibarra says that it's important to recognize how these changes are affecting you but to keep moving forward and even take the opportunity to reinvent yourself in your new role.

Matt Beane, assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, finds that robots, machine learning, and AI are changing how we train for our jobs — not just how we do them. His study shows that robot-assisted surgery is disrupting the traditional learning pathway of younger physicians. He says this trend is emerging in many industries, from finance to law enforcement to education. And he shares lessons from trainees who are successfully working around these new barriers. Beane is the author of the HBR article “Learning to Work with Intelligent Machines.”

In this repeat episode, we honor the legacy of HBS professor Clayton Christensen, who passed away on January 23, 2020. The legendary management thinker was best known for his influential theory of “disruptive innovation,” which inspired a generation of executives and entrepreneurs. This HBR IdeaCast interview was originally published in 2016.

In 1970, Plymouth hoped to persuade Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro buyers to choose their Barracuda instead. One of Plymouth's tactics was to offer greater customization options.

At the time, the Mustang offered 15 exterior color options:

1970 Ford Mustang Exterior Paint Options

The Camaro offered 18 exterior color options:

1970 Chevy Camaro Exterior Paint Options

Note: This sheet pertains to multiple Chevy models. We have obscured the color options unavailable on the Camaro.

Plymouth went heavy by offering a whopping 25 color options. They demonstrated this to buyers not with a lame sample sheet, but by dropping this innovative-for-the-time rendering into the brochure:

1970 Plymouth Barracuda Ext. Paint Options

That rendering is freaking gorgeous, as are all of the colors. There's not a single one of those I'd decline.

As Hot Rod reports, automotive enthusiast Tim Wellborn, founder of the Wellborn Musclecar Museum in Alabama, had known about the rendering since childhood and recently decided he wanted a real version. According to My Classic Garage, "Collaborating with the Big Easy Motors television show on the History Channel, the Wellborn Musclecar Museum tapped famed builders at The Bomb Factory in New Orleans, LA [and] set out to create a real life version of the original 1970 illustration."

Here's what they came up with:

They did commit to a single color for the driver's side (looks like #17 on the chart):

While the "Paint Chip 'Cuda" isn't for sale, the museum sells both posters and banners featuring its image.

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Game Closure is on the hunt for backend / systems engineers to help us build the services and infrastructure that power our social games that are played by millions of people every day. ...

Tripwire Interactive is looking for a lead gameplay engineer to help shape its engineering team. ...

Franchises lost the fewest jobs, but overall the unemployment number was unprecedented.

Tripwire Interactive is looking for a lead gameplay engineer to help shape its engineering team. ...

TCS is increasing the proportion of variable pay that’s linked to performance for experienced engineers as part of the rejig

Covid-19 crisis: SpiceJet to pay part salaries to 92% of employees, no job cuts

The IT industry should see about half of the top ten IT services companies requiring fresh, top-rated tech talent, almost a third of the remaining services pool, and almost 15 to 18% of the high tech product / internet or GICs going for it.

In India, the total number of jobs likely to be impacted is 136 million, as per the NSS.

V K Singh said presently, a section of Indian workers facing difficulties in two major Saudi companies -- Saudi Oger and the Saad Group -- are being brought back to India.

Categories like essentials, at-home entertainment, health and insurance continue to show greater resiliency.

The headcount has now come down from more than 1,000 employees a year ago, with the majority of job cuts in the wake of Covid-19 outbreak that forced shutdowns in the February-April period. The headcount comprises staff on the company’s rolls as well as those on contract and outsourced manpower.

Psychology says your identity is the way you define your uniqueness through your past, present and future.

An athlete is a master of the science behind his sport. Which muscles to exercise, the right skills, the impact of diet and which medicines are allowed. Figure out the science behind the interview and selection process of the company.

If the economy tanks into a recession, you and everyone else are at risk of losing his job. Finding a new job in a recession will be a massive challenge and hence you need a battle plan.

If the company is planning lay-offs, start circulating your resume and talking to people in the industry without discussing it with colleagues. It is also a good idea to build a contingency fund to help you sail through in case you don’t find a job immediately.

But the economy can’t rev up too quickly, not as long as the virus is still loose.

US gold futures rose 0.6 per cent to $1,698.70.

The metal gained about 2% on Thursday on the back of bleak US economic data.

US gold futures were up 0.1 per cent at $1,728.10.

Businessman Sentenced to a Year in Prison for Stealing Employer’s Trade Secrets While Planning New Job in China

Top trainer Mike de Kock has warned of a “grim reality” featuring “loss of jobs and euthanasia” of significant parts of the horse population if the South African racing shutdown continues. On Tuesday, the South African government blocked plans for a resumption when it refused to allow the sport to take place under Lockdown Level […]

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Burlington Free Press: Fired after raising concerns about unsafe conditions, UPS whistleblower gets her job back. “Marge Harvey got her job back. Harvey, a 33-year veteran driver for UPS in St. Johnsbury, was fired on April 10 after pushing management on unsafe conditions at her workplace, including no personal protective equipment, no soap in the … Continue reading Burlington Free Press: Fired after raising concerns about unsafe conditions, UPS whistleblower gets her job back

An inventive spirit, and some naughtiness, has fueled actor Dean Holt for 25 years at CTC, the only acting job he's ever had.

Anthony Fowler wrote a wonderful op-ed. You have to read the whole thing, but let me start with his most important point, about “the temptation to overclaim” in social science: One study estimated the economic value of the people spared through social-distancing efforts. Essentially, the authors took estimates from epidemiologists about the number of lives […]

Declining state and local government spending really can make an economic downturn worse. And this recession is bad enough already.

A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that almost 4.4 million visitors spent more than $415 million in Grand Canyon National Park and in gateway regions around the park in 2010. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2012-02-28_economics.htm

A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 4,564,841 visitors to Grand Canyon National Park in 2013 spent $476,194.8 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 6,238 jobs in the local area. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/tourism-to-grand-canyon-national-park-creates-476-million-dollars-in-economic-benefit-report-shows-visitor-spending-supports-6238-jobs-in-local-economy.htm

United States unemployment has risen to its highest level since the Great Depression, with tens of millions of jobs wiped out in just one month.

The Labor Department’s survey taken in April is expected to show record job losses for the U.S. WSJ explains the context behind the numbers. Photo: Justine Lane/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK

The federal government’s wage subsidy scheme may be wound back before its promised six month life span.

Lidl was given permission at Wednesday's meeting of the planning committee to open a new supermarket in the Co-op Store on Parsons Drive in Ryton

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What is deceptive, especially in the West, is our assumption that repetitive and mindless jobs are dehumanizing. On the other hand, the jobs that require us to use the abilities that are uniquely human, we assume to be humanizing. This is not necessarily true. The determining factor is not so much the nature of our jobs, but for whom they serve.

‘Burnout’ is a result of consuming yourself for something other than yourself. You could be burnt out for an abstract concept, ideal, or even nothing (predicament). You end up burning yourself as fuel for something or someone else. This is what feels dehumanizing. In repetitive physical jobs, you could burn out your body for something other than yourself. In creative jobs, you could burn out your soul. Either way, it would be dehumanizing. Completely mindless jobs and incessantly mindful jobs could both be harmful to us.

By Andrea Germanos Common Dreams On the heels of clean fuel milestones in Germany and Portugal , a new report finds that the renewable energy industry employed over 8.1 million people worldwide in 2015. According to the International Renewable Energy … Continue reading →