Thinking out loud: Back in January of 2009 I wrote the blog post below. Since then, the White House, and several part of the executive branch, with the support of congress, have attempted to shore-up American labor with stimulus funds and various other efforts. I believe much of their effort is misguided because they do not look at the complexity of the relationships involved, … [Read more...] about US Labor Policy and Employment
Strategy
The Internet’s Uncertain Future
Anyone who claims they can accurately predict the Internet’s future is at minimum wrong, definitively delusional and perhaps borderline psychotic. The Internet is influenced by many things, and any attempt to extrapolate outcomes from current trends in destined to failure. If that is true, then how does an organization plan for its future? The answer is scenario planning. The … [Read more...] about The Internet’s Uncertain Future
My Take on Joel’s G. Goodman’s Take the Higher Education Web
I was asked my take on Joel G. Goodman’s October 13, 2010 post My Take On The State of Higher Education Web at A not-so commonplace book. [Note that the post and the site that generated this post no longer exist, but Joel does.] First of all, I agree with Joel that educational institutions often think they are more progressive than they are. I also think that what is … [Read more...] about My Take on Joel’s G. Goodman’s Take the Higher Education Web
Information and War
More on this later. 8:22 PM | Add a comment | Permalink | Blog it Reposted from Future of Work, October 27, 2006 – with slightly improved grammar and word choice… Information and the End of War This will be the first of what will likely be many ruminations of why conventional war is no longer an option in the information age. The primary premise of this exploration will … [Read more...] about Information and War
Human Capital and Other Investments
September 25 Future of Work Blog repost from 9/25/2006 The new O'Toole and Lawler book, The New American Workplace, points out clearly that too many organizations treat people as an expense. We spend too much time looking through the lens of the industrial age and believe at the deepest level reducing the expenses associated with people and replacing them with automation will … [Read more...] about Human Capital and Other Investments