Where do you fit in the world of work? How you can be useful? Will you ever find a career you enjoy?… Since The Lost Generation post, some tremendous work has been going on behind the scenes. Read on.
We have a small team of very talented people pulling together research [...] Continue Reading…
ShareI have written on the top of every page in my notebook “Skill vs Talent”.
Why would I do that? Well… most of us don’t really separate the two. Your natural talent is what you are born with.
Skill is what comes with endless hour upon hour of graft, of utterly [...] Continue Reading…
ShareFrom an excellent discussion on Scott Gould’s blog, @juliewalraven raised that one of the biggest barriers most of us have for engaging, is the ability to ask probing, useful questions. Which got me thinking…
Why is it useful to get good at asking questions?
For me it has been the key to breaking [...] Continue Reading…
ShareI was reading Scott Gould’s blog post My vote for sale: Price: Engagement. And it got me thinking. What would you do if you were a politician?
Politicians are utterly petrified of a combative media, and saying the wrong thing, but what can they do to engage?
10 Things Politicians could do:
Admit [...] Continue Reading…
ShareYour response to The Lost Generation has been phenomenal, thanks to all of you who shared your experience and frustrations with the current jobs market. What is absolutely clear is you’re not alone in the big hole between education and your career
Key Themes
The messages are coming from your experiences in industry [...] Continue Reading…
ShareI was talking with a friend who is struggling to find a job after uni, sharing with her the experiences of recently being a job hunter myself. It’s becoming an all too familiar conversation. There is a wealth of passion and talent in the UK that simply doesn’t know [...] Continue Reading…
ShareIt’s been fashionable for a while for us to talk about how we “should” go green. It’s a little like the smoker saying they “should” stop, and the fatty saying they “should” diet. What are we really doing to change the systems & technology we depend on to solve [...] Continue Reading…
ShareSocial Media isn’t new any more. The Innovators have been here for a while, the Early Adopters & The Main Stream can’t quite figure out what to do with it. So what has been happening while we wait for the Loggards? What’s next?
The Payments Industry is dragging it’s feet [...] Continue Reading…
ShareIt’s a complex picture, but so far the Solutions have come from two angles. The first is from the banking sector, which is historically complex, and evolutionary. As such we have product offerings packaging a prepaid card, with mobile services, tied to one operator and one bank… The definition [...] Continue Reading…
ShareContext is key.
The summits, protests and political dog fights have so far missed the point and been ineffective. Why? Carbon levels have gone up and we are no closer to a real solution to our fossil fuel dependency. Whilst I buy the ideal that we “should” be able to [...] Continue Reading…
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