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The Collaboration Software That’s Rejuvenating the Young Global Leaders of Davos
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The Collaboration Software That’s Rejuvenating the Young Global Leaders of Davos

Human-focused software helped the World Economic Forum bring one of its core programs back to life. Could it work for your office too?

Greg Lindsay
Fast Company, 2017
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Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking expects robots to take over within the next century. Until then, groups like the World Economic Forum (WEF) are pioneering ways how machines can power human interaction to create social change. Fast Company writer Greg Lindsay explains how the WEF’s Forum of Young Global Leaders breaks new ground with its successful team-building software. getAbstract recommends this article to human resources professionals and anyone interested in the future of team building. 

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The World Economic Forum aims to stay relevant with its Forum of Young Global Leaders. Started in 2004, the annual Davos summit grooms 800 influential leaders in their 30s and 40s – including Chelsea Clinton and Y Combinator’s Sam Altman – to change the world for the better. Because participants were passive at first, the forum enlisted a group of artists, designers and data scientists to revamp the program as an “incubator for social enterprise.” The reforms helped social entrepreneurs Shaffi Mather from India and Eli Beer from Israel collaborate to create MUrgency, an international network of first ...

About the Author

Greg Lindsay is a fellow at the Hybrid Reality Institute and co-author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.

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