By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed
A recent posting by David DeLong in the Harvard Business Review titled “When Learning at Work Becomes Overwhelming” addresses the problem of employee education in a world where technology is advancing at a rapid pace. DeLong points out that MIT economists insist we’re now in a race between education and technology, if workers’ skills are […]
Read More…“Future Proof” is a nice choice of words for meeting the challenges facing students over the coming decades. The Singapore Independent describes the effort in Singapore to “Future Proof” students. “We must become a meritocracy of skills, not a hierarchy of grades earned early in life,” said Singapore Deputy Prime Minister and Finance. According to […]
Read More…At the middle of the twentieth century at the end of World War II, the United States was near full employment, Europe, Japan and China were devastated, and the US had virtually no competition in the world. Whatever the US made would sell – domestically and internationally. As the decades passed, Europe, Japan and China […]
Read More…I gave a few high school commencement addresses – typically they were as follows The student body president was eloquent in her remarks reflecting on the students’ experiences in high school and her call for her classmates to become active and productive citizens as they prepare to enter the real world. The class had listened […]
Read More…The “Interpersonal Skill” is defined in many ways from multiple sources. My own definition of the skill is as follows: The “Interpersonal Skill” is not a skill that enables you to “win friends;” rather, it is a skill that is best described by how others view you after you have worked with them on […]
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