And so while it may have been the case that jobs and people needed to be more efficient from an employment standpoint 20 or 30 years ago, the opportunity now is all on the other side, investing in workers. Technology can be an enormous enabler if you look at it in the right way. It doesn’t have to replace jobs – it can actually help humans to be more productive.”

So if you think about how to create the most prosperous, valuable companies, the focus has to be on how to maximize the value of those intangible assets. Those assets are people – that’s the motivation, inventiveness, the innovation of human beings. And the way you maximize that is by investing in them, and by motivating them, and by recruiting the best talent.

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