AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics - Smarter Collaboration: Parabol Founder and CEO Jordan Husney Outlines a Better Way to Structure Your Meetings to Get More Out of Your Teams

Smarter Collaboration: Parabol Founder and CEO Jordan Husney Outlines a Better Way to Structure Your Meetings to Get More Out of Your Teams

08/15/19 • 29 min

AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics

Jordan Husney is the founder and CEO of Parabol, a meeting software product for agile teams, particularly those distributed around the world. Jordan shares his insights with host Dan Turchin around the difference between teams & interest groups, key rules of engagement for productive meetings, and his thoughts on what the future of work will look like for employees & knowledge workers around the globe. He also shares a fascinating perspective on how his experience as a start-up founder has allowed him to see a different side of America.

Challenges for CIO's and IT Leaders Addressed in this Podcast:
1. How do you make meetings more engaging and productive?
2. How to deal with the office narcissist?
3. What's the difference between a team and an interest group? And, why should you care?
4. What are effective rules of engagement to actually make meetings useful?

To learn more about Parabol, visit: https://www.parabol.co/

To learn more about Astound, visit: https://astound.ai/

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For more information on Mark’s book Truth from the Trenches, visit:
https://www.okta.com/truth-from-the-trenches/
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