OnMail - yet another email service comes online … remember all the pundits that declared …
”email is dead”…
… as they switched on whatever the app ‘du jour' was?
I think they called it too soon.
Skills
Soft skills ... wooly, fluffy, comfortable ... not like ' real, hard, proper skills are they?
Soft skills, bendy, malleable, unmeasurable ... nothing like ' real, hard, proper skills ...
.. and yet
I often talk about vocabulary and language .... here's another one ... because if you list all the skills that people are highlighting as important in the future - it's close identical to the soft skill list.
My advice ... get into that cuddly warm blanket and embrace those soft skills -- you can always learn the other skills as and when you need them ... despite the name ... they're not that hard.
Character
I was really taken by these words that came in an email from one of my newsletter readers. Capturing it for posterity ... because it is important.
Character may be something you are born with and largely in place by age 5 but surely it is something that is developed and refined in many ways through a thousand experiences in both good and bad directions. Right?
Since a zillion years ago I have ALWAYS subscribed to "hire character, teach skills". It has never let me down and the boneheaded moves I have made here and there were when I deviated from this.
The Future of Work
First, there are many possible futures - it is not yet clear what the future is, so we should be asking what is ...
A Future of Work?
Second, what the hell is ‘work’ - why do we care about it?
If you ask most people if all their creature comforts were taken care of - would they continue to do what they are doing? More than likely they will answer ’no’ - the question then is what is ...
The/A Future of Income?
Third, the future is already here, so let's call it
The Present of Work
…. and by the 'Present of Work' - your life, labour, time to do your work is not a gift, not a present. You should be paid fairly and equitably for your contribution.
Thinking Allowed
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Technology
Technology is one of the eight pillars of People First ... with a single, solitary 'stone’, a mighty 'Sarsen' reaching to the sky that is that pillar.
Technology ... OMG ... Technology
- Owned
- Managed
- Governed
... not by you - by others.
Dear Apple
You release a new OS, add a new feature that allows you to see all your screens on a single page and allow us to hide some of those screens if we so choose.
But you don’t offer a way to reorder my screens?
Seriously?
I am available for consulting engagements!
Greg Orme is a business director at The London Business School and his latest book ‘The Human Edge’ won The Business Book Awards Best Business Book for 2020.
He came on to the People First podcast and shared his findings, hope you enjoy.
I suddenly feel a very steep learning curve in front of me … I’m looking at you iOS14.
”Today’s update also removes Adobe Flash.”
… I’m not saying that some people have been a little slow on the uptake … I’m just saying that …
”Today’s update also removes Adobe Flash.”
🎶 Wait … Paranoid is 50?
If only all Republicans thought the same way.
(Castro podcast with Steve Schmidt - Lincoln Project cofounder with Katie Couric)
Double Trouble - so fixed.
The UK got suckered by BoJo, Gove, Cummings et al … turns out that the EU are not so slow.
… discuss.
Groove, Podia, Kajabi, ClickFunnels and all the rest … anyone have any feedback as to what they like (or dislike) and why?
To me they are all the same - and all different.
Very confusing.
I just want to thank Alaska for alerting me to the fact that I will have earned triple miles on all flights that I took through the Summer. Really was very kind of them. Generous. Unexpected.
Just wondering if they’d noticed how empty their flights were through the Summer.
Human Trafficking In Sports - a veritable who’s who of sponsors, click on the link to register - it’s free - it’s important.
Friday 11 September 17.00 CET
Farewell Diana. Missed already.
Just spotted on the twitter banner of @tim_walters - too important not to share.
🎶 Douglas Rushkoff talks to Michael Nesmith - yes … THAT Michael Nesmith … I knoooow .. right?
This week’s People First Podcast features LaTonya Peoples - a classical violinist who composed the music I use on the podcast. Turns out there is a whole lot to LaTonya that I did not know.
Enjoy … and let me know what you think.