Current Affairs
March 8 Career Event + Books Worth Reading
For those of you in the Denver area, please join me on March 8 for a special evening with Dan Pink, author of A Whole New Mind. I'll interview Dan on the topic of "Career Success in the New Decade." (BTW–I've been waiting years for Dan's traveling schedule to bring him to Denver. If you…
Read MoreGood News for Boundary Crossers in the Job Market
In a Wall Street Journal article, Landing a Job of the Future Takes a Two-Track Mind, I was struck by how it described the need to inhabit more than one world to land tomorrow's plum job. The article makes it clear that being a specialist in one area doesn't cut it. Instead, the advice is…
Read MoreHave We Become a Society of Driveling, Rude, Multi-tasking, Automatons?
Factoids and observations over the last month have led me to wonder where modern society is headed: Heard on NPR, teenagers send or receive an average of 2,272 text messages per month. That's nearly 80 per day. I can only imagine the content of those text messages…. In doing research for this post, I ran…
Read MoreWhat If Your Idea is No Good, Misinformed, or Driven By Ego?
I recently tweeted that there is a danger in turning an idea into a movement. This was in response to a friend of mine who had tweeted a famous line from the song, Alice's Restaurant, "three people makes an organization." And if we can get 50 people, it's a movement. Photo by ninahale. No, I…
Read MoreWhen Dissenting Voices Are Quashed, Be Very Worried
Thank you, Peggy Noonan, for telling it like it is. Noonan's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, 'You Are Terrifying Us,' is the clarion call that we are in trouble as a nation, not because of our economic woes, but because we have lost our objectivity around what it means to be a nation that…
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