The Wise Economy Telescope, second week of May
The future looks very different from the past.
Busy week with beginning ramp-up of Trep.House, the virtual superhub for New Majority founders. And a lot of interesting news this week. Let’s take a peek…
Does the boss buy your time…or your productivity?
New generation business and marketing guru Seth Godin can be damn uncanny. Last week I spent some time on the livestream reading a section of The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived that dealt with the mismatch between old style Expert-ness and what today’s world requires. Maybe because I spent so long selling my “expertise” by the hour, and smacking into the limits of that, but Seth’s obervations about the mismatch between Industral-era and modern definitions of productivity really hit home. But this also has profound implications for the future of business and work in our communities.
The future belongs to the … generalists?
This article is a little older, but new to me… and perhaps to you. For decades, we have told people to develop narrow specializations as the way…
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