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The top jobs of 2015 don't exist today. Dan Wooldridge provides advice on preparing for tomorrow's job market.
Coming Soon: Nontrepreneur Nation
How parenting and education are killing American entrepreneurship and innovation
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A new "nontrepreneur" generation is entering the marketplace: one characterized by fear of failure and an excessive need for hand-holding. Bernard Moon dives into some of the reasons behind the declining American entrepreneurial spirit.
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Gardner outlines five premium thinking abilities: the disciplinary mind, the synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful mind, and the ethical mind.
Our friend and InsideWork's South American correspondent, Glenn McMahan, provides some insight into the importance of language in today's global economy.
Video designed to stimulate the use of technology in education. A challenge to teachers and business people alike for the development of the first generation to grow up in a digital world.
Dan Wooldridge continues his challenge to the parents, educators and leaders of today to prepare our children for today's world.
60% of college students don't get a successful education - wasting billions and billions of dollars annually. Richard Light conducts a survey of Harvard students to find out what advice can help students be more likely to succeed.
Cal Berkeley's AnnaLee Saxenian has a clear vision of how the global economy is being transformed, and she has revealed it in The New Argonauts (2006, Harvard University Press).
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Thomas Friedman speaks to a network associated with Claremont McKenna College on the thesis of a flat world. Dan Wooldridge records his impressions of the speech as well as some implications for professional and personal development.
Dan Wooldridge calls parents, employers, educators, and church leaders to wake up to the rapid global changes happening in today's flat world.
Dan Wooldridge points out that the rampant cheating in schools will eventually have a long term impact in business performance and the quality of our society.
Al Lunsford's reflections on the best commencement speech he ever heard
Measuring Up 2006: The National Report Card on Higher Education, a study by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, underscores what a September 2006 New York Times editorial characterized as "ominous trends." No kidding
Public education is predominately controlled at the state and community levels. If businesspeople—who are deeply dependent on the quality of the workforce—don't call for and lead thoroughgoing educational reformation, who will we blame when it turns out our children leave school splendidly prepared for a future that no longer exists?
Dan Wooldridge writes that the new world of risk demands a shift from prediction and planning as personal and organizational drivers to preparation and adaptation.
Quote from Thomas Friedman.
The last of Al Lunsford's three reflections on Steve Jobs' speech to the Stanford Class of 2005.
The hilarious ultimate commencement address from Page 2 of ESPN using only lines from sports movies. Hilarious!
Steve Jobs, the college dropout, gave the commencement address for Stanford's class of 2005. What he told them, turned business heads all over the world.
We reached into the archive for Guy Kawasaki's monumental speech to the graduates of Palo Alto High School -- a speech he admits with due modesty cost parents thousands of dollars.
April is Financial Literacy Month, which coincides with the financial literacy survey by the Jump$tart Coalitionfor Personal Financial Literacy. We say, "The sooner we all take responsibility for legacy planning, the better off we'll all be."
David Brooks' commentary on Jerome Karabel's new book "The Chosen" got InsideWork's Jim Hancock thinking about who's in, who's out and who decides.
Dan Wooldridge points us to the current update of the popular Shift Happens video by Karl Fisch. This update, Did You Know 4.0, prepared in conjunction with The Economist, points out the changes in the media landscape and the convergence of technology.
Brazilian Businesses Forget to Invest in Leaders
Can this Brazilian business lesson be instructive where you live?
According to recent surveys, businesses in the rapidly expanding Brazilian economy forgot one key component for growth—the need to develop top-level leadership. Commentary from Glen McMahan.
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As Dan Wooldridge watched his daughter do homework, he realized that employers were not prepared for the emerging new workforce.
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