By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed!
It should be pretty clear by now that the authors of the Federalist Papers were quite well-grounded in the “Critical Skills.” One of those skills – the “Production Skill” – rather simple in concept, but sometimes hard to actually do. The Production Skill, as you may recall, is often referred to as “making it happen.” […]
Read More…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…The seventh grade science class at Briggs Middle School in Eugene, Oregon provides an excellent and highly creative example of learning and practicing the critical skills through a project involving their school’s environment. During the winter months from December 2011 until March 2012, the seventh grade students were faced with classroom temperatures in excess of […]
Read More…It was just a short transmission. “Houston, we have a problem,” Captain James A. Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, said calmly. That was an understatement; and it set in motion one of the most dramatic examples of application of the critical skills in history. It was April 1970 and the Apollo 13 space vehicles and […]
Read More…Much has been written and discussed about core competencies and how they are used to define the uniqueness of a company or organization. Core competencies, however, are not critical skills – even though a particular company will have its own set of critical skills that are similar to or even congruent with the definitions provided […]
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