Exploratory

A week or so ago a McKinsey article on innovation popped up in my LinkedIn feed. It’s an old article but probably still relevant today. It’s the usual lament about how difficult it is to innovate. My opinion is that innovation flies in the face of today’s efficiency paradigm. Being innovative or creative is very…

Here’s an interesting article from Wall Street Journal about companies’ difficulty reskilling their employees. I’m not surprised that companies are having difficulties after decades of slashing training budgets on the premise that they don’t provide a return on shareholder’s dollars. It was always about the shareholders and whether they valued such training (they didn’t). And…

I’m working on finishing up a learning and networking adventure I began last week. I have finished Harvard Business Review magazine on creativity and finished reading a PDF document titled “Redefining Readiness” (learning during the age of the 4th industrialization), and I’m in the midst of the Robert Mueller’s report. I haven’t finished reviewing the…

Walmart, a very shareholder driven company, or maybe it’s driven for one family only, is rolling out robots across its stores. This first article popped up in my LinkedIn. Noticing that the article is written by an unknown contributor (never heard of Jack Kelly), I decided to find out if there were more articles related…

Here is something exciting or something to be hopeful. Here is an article from Thomas Friedman showing how one rural town in Minnesota is working to increase acceptance of diversity. He says there are three things necessary in order to be a rising town versus a declining town: a need to fill jobs, ready to…

Well, maybe they are not avant-garde… A couple of months ago, I did a post on avant-garde Excels. This one is about avant-garde emails, although they are really not avant-garde per se, but they are unusual company emails in that people don’t usually do these visual types of emails. Why am I doing this? One,…