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The Future of Work · 2007
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Making generations work - Cardboard people and plasma people
Can you innovate across the generations? If you can't -- then you've got a big problem to fix! I do a tremendous number of keynotes that focus on the issue of "managing…
New article: Don't mess with my powder, dude!
Earlier this year, I wrote the Foreword for the book, The Rise of the Project Workforce: Managing People and Projects in a Flat World. It was titled, "Don't Mess with My Powder…
Major trend - the future of the organization
Take a look at this kid. He's your next employee. How are you going to recruit, retain, manage, interest, and amuse this fellow? What's your workforce going to look like in 2012…
"Don't Mess with my Powder, Dude: Managing People and Projects in The Flat World"
Tenrox, a company that provides companies an intgelligent infrastructure for rapid workforce management, has invited me to keynote their September 2007 user group conference in…
Innovation and the new workforce
I'm keynoting the annual IHRIM (International Human Resource Information Management) professional association in about an hour here in Houston, TX; I'll have an audience of about…
Outsourcing transitions from cost savings to strategic necessity
My latest CAMagazine column is out ; in it, I focus on the role that financial executives should be thinking about in the context of the massive rates of change occuring in the…
What's happening with our workforce?
Last week, there was a common theme to my keynotes for the University of Oklahoma and for the national Blue Cross Blue Shield Association: "what's happening with our workforce?"…
"Flexibility defining careers, workplace"
An article on my perspectives on the future of the career has run in a wide variety of papers across the country. The full article can be found here in Adobe Acrobat format. Some…
The future of skiing
Right straight from 85F+ temperatures on the beach in Grand Cayman, to 0F on the shores of Georgian Bay -- it was time to get back on the ski hills! Over the weekend, I found that…
Talent, not money, is the new corporate battlefront
Here's a trend to think about : Companies will soon be accessing needed skills from all generations: from bright, knowledge aggressive 15 year olds to active 80 year olds. We are…
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