Humans are “beings”; not Human “beens”, or Human “will be’s”
Lives are verbs. Humans are being, like rivers are being, like anything that moves and grows and suffers the spectrum of life are beings We live too often thinking that a milestone, or a collection of milestones, will build us into a monolith of adulthood. As if all wisdom, knowledge, and experience can be encompassed […]
Post #3 Why civil unrest is inevitable if we don’t create jobs
So here’s the quick sketch of reality in America: 13 million people without jobs (including the low participation rate) – 8.1% unemployment rate in America 2 Trillion Dollars of Corporate and Private Sector earnings, sitting on the sidelines, collecting no interest. If you invested all 2 Trillion dollars into creating 13 million jobs, you’d have […]
HOW TO CREATE JOBS {POST #1 “The Current Landscape in America”}
Post #1: The current landscape in America (or anywhere in the modern world, really) In 2009 New York was going to hell in a handbasket. Century-old firms were gone within a few weeks – Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros, etc., the stock market was in a free-fall, people were talking about the end of world, MSNBC […]
HOW TO CREATE JOBS! {Preamble}
Hi friends, I’m working on a series of posts that I’m going to tentatively title: How to Create Jobs. It’s a 3-part post that will be published next Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Post #1: The current landscape in America (or anywhere in the modern world, really) I’m going to do a cursory dive into what […]
What little I know about Leadership…
This is all I know about leadership 1.) Leadership has a sense of gravity to it. If you think of Leadership as an element, think of it as one of the denser elements like Tungsten or Gold (or Osmium!). If placed at the top of an organization leadership will flow downward throughout the company. If it’s […]