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The Future. What Will We Tell Our Children?
People that lead fulfilling and successful lives usually have a clearly defined and fully personalized mission, vision, and purpose. They build their success with a comprehensive set of life skills that bring success to virtually any career. Here is the rub. Many people are unwilling to learn the very skills […]
How Did the World’s Greatest Futurist Predict 2017 in 1970?
“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Alvin Toffler – Future Shock Those words were published in Alvin Toffler’s groundbreaking book, “Future Shock” forty-seven years ago. He spoke of a world speeding up […]
Are Unions Worthless?
Approximately one in ten American employees belong to a union. Most unions are focused on what they did a hundred years ago – protecting jobs and ensuring the safety of their members. But, as the needs of workers change, are unions doing their job? Over the last fifty years, […]
Will Your Tribe Make or Break You?
What happens right after we make a decision to change the business or the course of our lives? We tell members of our tribes. The challenge with tribes is that they have rigid rituals and expectations. When we break one of those rituals, the general response is some form […]
America’s Real Skills Crisis
In our culture, we have a growing challenge and dare I imply “crisis” around a variety of life skill deficits that impact many adults and will undermine the careers of our growing children. We can witness the impact of these deficits on the American workers who characterize themselves as “underemployed.” […]
Unlearning – Today’s Shockingly Important Skillset
In a world where change grows every day, it is vitally important that we become athletic active learners. It is equally important that we become “unlearners.” America’s great, late futurist Alvin Toffler predicted that by the turn of the century, most of us would be in a state of “future […]
HR 20.18 – What Does the Future Hold?
The human resources profession is undergoing the “Hero’s journey.” In literature, the Hero’s Journey typically involves someone who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed. The narrative might sound familiar to anyone who works because the degree of […]
The Global Talent Crisis That Will Impact Every-Single-One-Of-Us
We have a massive global crisis on our hands around work and livelihood. The numbers speak for themselves. 48% of Americans view themselves as underemployed. In other words, they are living from paycheck to paycheck. It is impossible for people to have self-esteem if they are not having a direct […]
Why We Must Trade-In Old-Fashioned Security for Growth
How many of us are conscious enough to be excited about trading in a sense of old-fashioned security for perpetual growth? Most of us need to be educated to even realize what the opportunity means on a personal level. For the vast majority, real change is a frightening prospect. For […]
There is No Such Thing as Fear of Success
Early this morning, I woke up and thought of how frightening it would be to pay all my bills, to buy a spectacular beach home in the Malibu Colony and purchase a brand-new Azimut 77S foot yacht with a crew of two. My mind wandered towards getting up and visiting […]