All organizations do change when put under sufficient pressure. This pressure must be either external to the organization or the result of very strong leadership. – Bruce Henderson, CEO Boston Consulting Group To prosper, all companies are searching for the next killer product or idea. There’s simply not enough products in the pipeline to […]
There is no finish line. Nike Corporation motto One of the striking consequences of the Wall Street financial debacle is that the companies that we work for as employees or contractors will have to become more competitive. In the last recession, many companies gave this lip service. OK, they said we’re going to be competitive
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The NY Times headlined a piece a few years ago: “End of Banking as We Know It.” Great lead! Gretchen Morgenson said: “The money business as we have come to know it over the last two decades – with its lush salaries, big-swinging risk-takers, and ultrathin capital cushions – is a goner. Got that? Toast.
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Paradigm: Provides us a language, a common set of assumptions, and a common set of expectations of what may occur in the future. Joel Barker Creative destruction results in new paradigms such as our recent financial meltdown. The Wall Street financial catastrophe in engineering language is called a singularity or a Black Swan risk event
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The Wall Street meltdown is an extreme example of economic creative destruction. The challenge is this once in a generation event is now occurring frequently and in almost all businesses, professions, and jobs. Think about it! Your employer with tens or even hundreds of thousands of people may not exist in 15 years. Moreover, this
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We live in a VUCA world. VUCA stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Not too sure what this means? Take a look at any news broadcast or front page of any national newspaper. Most of the articles deal with VUCA. Let’s look at each element of VUCA: Volatility: The unexpected or even 100-year events
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Ed Perkins is an electrical engineer and cyber security guru who is a candidate for 2017 President-elect of IEEE USA, the U.S. group of the biggest technical society in the world. Ed talks with us about what makes engineering cool, the importance of STEM, and the future of technology. Ed Perkins CIA CERM is also
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Chelsea Dover is a PDX Code Guild graduate. She’s been homeschooled since first grade. She is now 15 and well on her way to accomplishing her dream of being a coder. This is her story.
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Katie Dover is a programmer who recently graduated from the PDX Code Guild Bootcamp in Portland Oregon, USA. She is the daughter of Sheri Dover, the founder of the PDX Code Guild. In this interview, Katie talks about what she thinks about programming and how it has helped her Katie Dover is a programmer who achieve her dreams.
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Sheri Dover is an entrepreneur and founder of the PDX Code Guild. She is a thought leader in the Portland tech startup community. Here, she talks with us about how the PDX Code Guild helps people get high-paying jobs in the technology sector.
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