Career Evolution

According to recent research from business publishing company Wiley, only 53% of individual contributors said they feel safe taking risks at their organizations, compared to 64% of managers and 76% of executives. Across the board, contributors (ranging from middle managers to individual contributors) feel unable to raise problems and tough issues at work, the research found.That’s a problem—and could be holding people back in a variety of ways, says performance expert Eduardo Briceño, author of The Performance Paradox:…

Many people think a bachelor’s degree is the key to a high-paying career. In fact, one of the most common concerns among job seekers without a four-year degree is that they’re unqualified to apply to roles calling for degree requirements. Past surveys have even revealed that respondents without a four-year degree tend to be the least satisfied with their professional life.But hiring has changed significantly over the past several years, and while education is still important, it isn’t everything.Due in part to the rise of…

Michael Littman is a university professor of computer science at Brown University and division director of information and intelligent systems at the National Science Foundation. Littman is a fellow of both Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. He was selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science as a Leadership Fellow for Public Engagement with Science in Artificial Intelligence.Below, Littman shares five key insights from his new…