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The top jobs of 2015 don't exist today. Dan Wooldridge provides advice on preparing for tomorrow's job market.
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Moreover, there is something unnatural in the high corporate mortality rate; no living species, for instance, endures such a large gap between its maximum life expectancy and its average realization...Why, then, do so many companies die prematurely?...Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, [...]
Arie de Geus
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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.
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.
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.
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The measure of leadership is not the quality of the head, but the tone of the body. The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
Max DePree
Reading articles on the rise in the Wholesale Price Index in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times today reminded me of the Proverb about the "prudent person." The first half of Proverbs 14:8 says, ...
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If you insist on always having been right, you will, of course, be wrong, and your colleagues and friends will know this. The gracious among them will refer to you as "stubborn," and the less gentle will brand you a fool ... Developing the ability to quickly recognize errors in your actions, [...]
Hugh Hewett
Business can be messy — no news there. Sometimes it remains messy right to the end. Bernard Moon reflects on what can happen when you don't get a great finish...
Al Lunsford is not a disinterested observer of Silicon Valley; he has long term investments and relationships there. So he quite taken by Marc Andreessen's vision of the near future of technology businesses on the Charlie Rose program.
Bernard Moon reflections on pain and perseverance and finds plenty to think about — like, Does everything happen for a reason? and When does wisdom dictate walking away instead of pushing through?
"All children are born poor," Jim Hancock notes. It’s their parents and others in the generation before them who provide wealth, if any, while they are young. It's the generation before who offer an interpretive frame and a skill set and training and a worldview. Then it’s their turn.
Bradley J. Moore knows how intimidating it can be when everyone in the room knows more than you do about something. But it’s not all bad. "In fact," he claims, "I would say that feeling stupid at work can actually be a good sign for your career."
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At the heart of the company's "people investment" culture is Pixar University, an on-the-job training program that offers hundreds of courses in art, animation, and filmmaking. All of Pixar's employees are encouraged to take classes in whatever they like, whether it's relevant to their job or not. At other studios, there's a clear distinction between the "creatives," [...]
Leander Kahney
Are You Dealing with Complexity, Ambiguity and Failure?
Congratulations. And Welcome to the Real World.
Bradley J. Moore on leadership development: "I don’t know why the difficult, gut-wrenching experiences are so crucial, other than they somehow test us—our will, our strength—and humble us at the same time. And that’s how we grow in wisdom and confidence, I guess."
I think it was Karl Barth who said Christians should greet the day with the New York Times in one hand and the Bible in the other. This may be the earliest reference to Information Grazing.
Whether we see it or not, there's an element of imagination in Bible-reading just as there is in reading history, poetry and narrative stories - if we weren't there, we can only imagine what it's like.
TED, the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference held in Monterey, California each February, has joined with BMW to offer TEDTalks
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Wikipedia, Wikiseek and Gutenberg are parallel technologies centuries apart that made knowledge and the power of knowledge available to the masses.
Dan Wooldridge, a confessed addict of the simple and elegant Moleskine notebooks encourages you to capture your inspiration and thinking in writing.
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Our habits of thinking, our assumptions about the world can trap us. How do we recognize trends and spot change earlier? How do we overcome our personal and organizational assumptions that keep us from seeing?
AdAge asked a bunch of really smart business leaders "how they continuously educate themselves to keep up with the shifting digital and cultural landscapes." Here's what they said (and what InsideWork has to say about what they said).
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Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person.
Epictetus, interpreted by Sharon Lebell
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"Having to be right shackles your mind.
People are culturally conditioned to have to be right. [...] having to be right becomes a barrier to learning and understanding. It keeps you from growing, for their is no growth without changing, correcting, and questioning yourself. John Naisbitt
People are culturally conditioned to have to be right. [...] having to be right becomes a barrier to learning and understanding. It keeps you from growing, for their is no growth without changing, correcting, and questioning yourself. John Naisbitt
Dan Wooldridge explains the four steps to improving performance in an organization, including the vital role of feedback.
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