Category: Business
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Just How Stupid is Career Planning?
If you are like me, you were taught the importance of career planning. What we were taught was wrong. Let’s examine why. I remember sessions in school when we looked at career possibilities and discussed, for those of us who were heading towards what in those days was considered a career, how to craft a…
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Has the Workplace Pendulum Swung The Other Way?
Photo by LYCS Architecture on Unsplash Covid had unexpected impacts on the workforce and the changes are not going to go away, nor should they Over my lifetime I have seen a major swing in workplace relations, from significant power in the hands of workers because of widespread and often legally enforced unionism, to the recent years of…
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Casualisation of the Workforce – National Structural Issues Exposed by Covid-19 Series, Part 2
This short series of articles examines the deep, long hidden structural issues that many countries have, that have been exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Previous articles in the series have looked at the Lack of Trust in Science. Here is part two. Casualisation of the Workforce Over my working life there have been massive changes…
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Higher Education Is in Trouble, And Should Be – Higher Education is Broken, Let’s Disrupt it and Build a Better Model of Adult Education Series, Part 1
This series of articles examines the deep and profound structural issues in post-secondary and adult education, examines the disruptive forces at work and works towards a new model of adult education that can truly work for all. Here is part one. Even before Covid-19, higher education was dead in the water, it just didn’t generally…
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Lack of Forward Planning – National Structural Issues Exposed by Covid-19 Series, Part 3
Governments are made up of people, and so a government can exhibit all the same “personality traits” that people do. They can be self-absorbed, naturally defensive, forgetful, distracted, following the wrong path, overwhelmed or completely sociopathic. We’ve seen all of the above from governments during Covid-19. Like people, governments need to be encouraged, and sometimes…