Humans like to find reasons not to do something versus finding a way to do it and get it done. It is easier for folk to cover their asses and say, “No, that’s too hard.” Noted visionary, Richard Thieme, says […]
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Part 15 of 16 Organizations need to be able to adapt to folks that are definitely different from the current definition of ‘normal.’ So, what should HR and the politically correct people inside organizations expect? You can expect, for those
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Part 14 of 16 Big time executives get private jets, Michelin chefs, gazillion-dollar signing bonuses, and then, tons more money when they screw up and the Board of Directors fires them. Them’s the perks of executive recruitment. But what about
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Part 13 of 16 Nine To Five Is Crap. “Please be creative from when you punch in until you punch out.” I’ve seen a lot of that over the years. Problem solving is not linear, and you cannot put it
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Part 12 of 16 You’ve got competition. Lots of it, and you are losing many of the best and the brightest for so many of the reasons I’ve mentioned. Political Correctness and the continued insanity of absolute Cold War binary
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Part 11 of 16 I have real trouble with mandatory retirement. “Hey Bob! Thanks for thirty great years. Ciao!” “Hey Bob! You’re doing a great job, but we’re sort of going in a younger direction…” “Hey Sue! You know, with
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Part 10 of 16 We need to stop drug testing. Period. What the hell are we doing allowing raging alcoholics to run our governments, yet if you smoke a little weed, you can’t work for a bank or the Defense
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Part 9 of 16 Do you want all these hackers inside your company? I mean, working for your company. The bad guys are already in there – why add more, right? Why do we ignore the concept of periodic (analogue)
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Part 8 of 16 All right, we’ve got some crazy guys, some crazy geeks—how can you trust them? Who can you really trust? Trust and security go hand in hand, right? It’s a binary condition. Right? Either you trust ‘em
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Part 6 of 16 We’ve got to quit telling people, especially kids, that they’re special. They’re not. We tell our kids, “you’re a winner at everything, you’re wonderful. Wow, here’s your trophy for coming in 23rd out of 24 kids
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