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 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 7 of 16 If you could look at a bowl full of M&Ms and in a matter of seconds know exactly how many are there waiting to be eaten… well that would be something. Or, if you could look
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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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Part 5 of 16 Airline pilots don’t learn how to fly. They learn how to safely crash. Security folks learn how to fly the networks – not how to survive a crash. (See the disconnect?) As a society, and I
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Part 4 of 16 Degrees? To hell with them. “Only those with a BS or MS need apply.” Talk about an arbitrary discriminator of zero value. By that standard, I am worthlessly unemployable. By that standard, a majority of my
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