We’re going to be hearing a lot about jobs in the coming days. We should have been hearing about it more, a whole lot more, but there have been too many fires to put out. And the bad news is they are not out. They are not contained. (I intend this metaphorically, but at this… Read More “That Used To Be Us” – “The Great Stagnation” – Still, We Keep Asking, Where Will the Jobs Be?
If you read the news, if you pay attention to the changes in society, if you keep up with what’s happening, you know that we really do have a few very different worlds out there – maybe more pronounced than ever before. I’m speaking especially about the world of jobs, and the search for jobs. … Read More Where Will The Jobs Be? – I Keep Wondering…
Here’s a title that I might, or might not, read. I’m just not sure. The book is Eat People And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs, and Andy Kessler is trying to make sense of this current employment climate even as he argues for bold entrepreneurship. On the Amazon page, we read this: The era… Read More “Eat People” – Kessler Asks Where The Jobs Will Be (I Think He Is Partly Right, And Partly Wrong)
If you have read my posts over the last few months, you know that I am concerned about this question maybe more than any and all others: Where will the jobs be? There seems to be no good answer to this question. For the “blue collar” workers, those jobs are simply disappearing – literally disappearing. … Read More Jobs Disappearing for Lawyers; Jobs Disappearing in Finance – Where Will the Jobs Be?
Let’s get more innovative. Let’s get more productive. Productivity – up, up, up! Let’s find a way for each worker to produce more. Let’s find a way for our company to produce more in fewer total work hours. This is good for the company, this is good for our stockholders. This is good, this is… Read More The Perpetual Recession: Productivity Up, Jobs Not Up – Where Will The Jobs Be?
This slump is worse than most; so is the mood. Once demand returns, they say, jobs will come back and, with them, optimism. But Americans are far more apprehensive than usual, and their worries seem to go beyond the short-term debate over stimulus vs. deficit reduction. They fear that we are in the midst of… Read More Structural Shift vs. Cyclical Downturn (w/insight from Zakaria & Friedman) – Where will the Jobs Be? (ongoing series)
Where will the jobs Be? The College-Educated are taking the jobs that used to be filled by the non-college educated. This is a problem for both groups — the college educated, and the non-college educated. Consider this: Over 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees (over 8,000 of them have doctoral or professional degrees), along… Read More Where Will The Jobs Be? – The College Educated Are Taking The Jobs That Used To Be Filled By The Non-College Educated
Richard Florida (his book, The Great Reset is my selection for the September First Friday Book Synopsis), keeps thinking and writing about the future of jobs. Here are the last few sentences from his latest post, Where the Blue-Collar Jobs Will Be: The good news is that the U.S. will continue to create relatively high-paying… Read More Richard Florida Keeps Thinking about, and Writing About, the Future of Jobs (this time, blue-collar jobs)
Richard Florida has a post up at the Atlantic on “Where the Jobs Will Be.” He says that “Jobs are the second-biggest issue facing the United States – second only to the economy.” Obviously, big population areas will do pretty well (Dallas is looking pretty good). But, here’s a key paragraph: This suggests that the… Read More Richard Florida on Where the Jobs Will Be
We lead by being human. We do not lead by being corporate, professional, or institutional. (Paul G. Hawken, founder, Smith and Hawken) (quoted in Encouraging the Heart: A Leaders Guide to Rewarding and Encouraging Others by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Pozner. ——————– One of the great struggles in this or any era is… Read More A Message from Vaclev Havel — We Need A Workplace Built for Human Beings
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