Category Archives: Future Ready
So what is FUTURE READY?
My friends and colleagues have been asking me a lot of questions lately. They ask me what I’m going to do as SLA’s President-elect? What are my priorities? What do I hope to accomplish? I’ve been conducting some far-reaching conversations … Continue reading
Filed under Future Ready, leadership, motivation
These Jobs are Definitely not Future Ready
The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery below to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear … Continue reading
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Get Yourself into the Race
re·sil·ience Pronunciation: \ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s\ Function: noun Date: 1824 1 : the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress 2 : an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune … Continue reading
Filed under body surfing, employment, evolution, flexibility, Future Ready, Kim Dority, results, sustainability
What Might Be
Earlier this week I attended a presentation by Roger Martin, the author of The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage. There is a great article about the book in Businessweek as it was one of their top … Continue reading
Are you driven?
Last night, the uniquely Portland bookstore “Powell’s City of Books” hosted author Daniel Pink, an engaging speaker and author of A Whole New Mind, Free Agent Nation, and The Adventures of Johnny Bunko. I’d gained some real insight from Pink’s … Continue reading
Filed under community, Future Ready, models, motivation, results
