You could decrease the size of the Linkedin database by 20% if you simply banned the word innovation from profiles. The word once reserved for the likes of Thomas Edison is now being bandied about to describe enterprise software rewrites.
- The Meaning Of Management: The Great Awakening
“The vast and somber edifices of our big institutions still stand. Grim and impregnable, they also seem destined to last forever. Yet despite these appearances, and record profits that are fueled by cheap government money, these firms are rotting from within. The despotic management practices that are causing the decline are anachronisms from a former era. It is only a matter of time before they come to be seen as uneconomic and intolerable as despotism in the political sphere.” - The Raw and The Cooked: The Myths and Realities of Big Data
Put this half hour video on while you’re doing something else. Kate Crawford clears up misconceptions while laying out an exciting future. Worth it. - A Map of America’s Future: Where Growth Will Be in the Next Decade
“Over the next decade, the Left Coast should maintain its momentum, but ultimately it faces a Northeast-like future, with a slowing rate of population growth. High housing prices, particularly in the Bay Area, are transforming it into something of a gated community, largely out of reach to new middle-class families. The density-centric land use policies that have helped drive up Bay Area prices are also increasingly evident in places like Portland and Seattle. The Left Coast has the smallest percentage of residents under 5 outside the Great Lakes and the Northeast, suggesting that a “demographic winter” may arrive there sooner than some might suspect.” - Slow Ideas
Ideas spread at different rates. “This has been the pattern of many important but stalled ideas. They attack problems that are big but, to most people, invisible; and making them work can be tedious, if not outright painful. The global destruction wrought by a warming climate, the health damage from our over-sugared modern diet, the economic and social disaster of our trillion dollars in unpaid student debt—these things worsen imperceptibly every day. Meanwhile, the carbolic-acid remedies to them, all requiring individual sacrifice of one kind or another, struggle to get anywhere.” - WellnessFx
While the politicians are busy finger pointing as the aging population drains our resources with healthcare expense, there is actual innovation happening in medicine. Variant forms of the Quantified Self movement are moving the locus of health care from provider to recipient. This offering gives its membership a comprehensive blood test covering 100 variables four times a year for about $150 (including a consultation). What matters most in testing is that ot get repeated. That’s how one spots trends.
Bonus Link
- How To Become An Authoritative Thinker Within Your Niche
Straightforward talk for the uwardly mobile. And, if you are really serious, dredge up a copy of The Unabashed Self-Promoter’s Guide: What Every Man, Woman, Child and Organization in America Needs to Know About Getting Ahead by Exploiting the Me
Events and More
- The HR Technology Conference (Las Vegas, Oct. 7-9, 2013) The HR Tech Industry’s town hall with Bill Kutik and cohost Steve Boese
- HRTech Europe (Amsterdam, Oct 24-25)
- HRExaminer Radio : Industry News and Commentary with guests. Fridays at 11am pacific (2pm EDT)
- Today’s Show: Ravi Mikkelsen, CEO JobFig
- Sptember 27: Lee Klepinger
They Can’t Hear You Webinar Series. 6 Webinars, one registration
We can show you and your team how to attract attention in a world where no one is listening.
- August 28, 2013 Session 1: Getting Things Straight – Heading to HRTech
- Sept 4, 2013 Session 2: Defining Your Story
- Sept 11, 2013 Session 3: The Writer’s Room
- Sept 18, 2013 Session 4: Building an Influencer Network
- Sept 25, 2013 Session 5: Making Your Message Compelling & Like-able
- October 2, 2013 Session 6: Using networks to amplify your message
