I recently received a friend request on Facebook from a high school acquaintance. As I was looking over her profile to see what she's been up to, I was struck by her job title, "Building Roads."When people ask you what you do, do you fire off a fancy but esoteric-sounding job title like "Director...
How excited do you get about processes? How about routine and organization!? Hmm...two ideas that get my blood moving.Not many of us get great fulfillment from following a process or the notion of being a being a really efficient cog. Even those of us who claim to derive energy from process and...
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Great deck here on innovation and talent management from my good friend Adam Walz... Spotlight on Innovation
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What makes entrepreneurs great? A ton of research exists of this question, and two traits that frequently come up are low risk aversion and a high tolerance for ambiguity. Breaking that down a bit... Risk is something we intuitively understand as betting on the unknown. However, the...
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The rise of the knowledge economy and knowledge worker over the last decade has brought about a new philosophy related to corporate productivity. That philosophy sounds a little bit like this... "Hire the best and the brightest, give them the resources and support they need, and get out...
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Humor me for a minute and think back to your first post-college job search. Be honest with yourself. It was awful, wasn't it? If you were like me or any of my friends, the process could not have been more deflating. You are months from completing 17+ years of grueling education. It's almost...
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Additionally, the unemployment numbers show a notable split in the labor pool, with most unemployed workers finding jobs after a relatively short period of time, but a sizable chunk of the labor force unable to find new work even after months or years of searching. This group — comprising generally...
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via economix.blogs.nytimes.com The linked article above has a nice summary of recent research by Richard Florida (of Creative Class fame) on the relationships, by state, between human capital, wages, hours worked, and numbers of immigrants. Apparently blue-collar workers are right to complain...
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Some recent self-reflection and mentoring of soon-to-be alumni of my alma mater, St. Olaf, have caused me to think hard about those traits that make a person successful, regardless of the road they pursue. Reading Amar Bhide's "The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses" has prompted me to think...
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