SELF MANAGEMENT – YOUR NEXT STEPS
Develop a list of new norms for: Your relationships. Your workplace. Your work. Your career Your job. Your travel. Develop a set of new work rituals?
Future of Work
FINAL VUCAN THOUGHTS
We’re all VUCANs. VUCANs want to understand how to be successful in the Future of Work. So, we wondered what are the criteria for VUCAN life and work success. We searched wide for wisdom from work gurus, consultants, and companies. We couldn’t find a sure thing. So, we went far afield and sought some principles …
WHAT’S THE MEANING AND MEASURE OF YOUR LIFE?
The upper echelon is hoarding money and privilege to a degree not seen in decades. But that doesn’t make them happy at work. Charles Duhigg – Writer In COVID time, VUCANs need to ask two key questions. The first is ‘What’s the meaning of your life’? VUCANs have a growing and dawning consciousness that conventional …
YOUR ADAPTABILITY QUOTIENT!
Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you’ve got to be prepared for that, but if you don’t risk, then your business goes stale very quickly. Michael Grade – TV Executive All work – process core and project gigs – is high risk. There is little time to learn, adapt, and do. Workers have to …
LEARN TO CODE
Massachusetts: Local radio station WGBH estimates only 1% of Massachusetts students are taking a computer class that will get students ready for the Future of Work. WGBH – Boston TV station A friend’s daughter was interviewing at a bank. The hiring manager asked the applicant what languages she knows? The applicant listed Italian, French, German, …
GET TECHIE!
Manpower 2012 study reported a third of worldwide companies had trouble filling their tech jobs. Industry, marketplace, employers want RBPS and RBDM, which require Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math (STEM) skills. Unfortunately, many applicants had skills in areas where there’s not much demand. Pre COVID, there were not enough trained VUCANs for in-demand jobs. And, this …
JOB READY
Colleges have to do much more to put certain questions on the table to help students grapple with the coming decade of uncertainty. David Brooks – New York Times Columnist A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Centre showed that only 16% of Americans think that a four-year degree course prepares students for a …
MANAGING AND ENGINEERING THE FUTURE OF WORK
If colleges were businesses they would be right for hostile takeovers, complete with serious cost-cutting and painful reorganizations. US News and World Report Overarching theme in this book is the need for lifelong, continuing education. But, few colleges are meeting this need. They seem to be frozen due to the oncoming Edupocalypse or educational disruption. They …
EPISODIC CAREERS
You have a choice: pursue your dreams or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams. Jay Samit – Entrepreneur Get back to work. This is what COVID unemployed workers want to hear. The damage is the COVID has made the Future of Work episodic for today’s graduates and for many workers. …
RISK ASSURANCE
‘Sunspring,’ the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it’s worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce. Brad Field – Screen Writer Let’s run a thought experiment? Can …