This is part four of a four-part series on the changing shape of employment, the emergence of the collaborative economy, the potential impacts on higher education, and the need for a new social contract. Insights for this piece came in…
The notion of education implies that there’s a path towards a definitive, finished state wherein an individual has become “educated.” But in a world of accelerated change, with rapid disruption cycles in industry and with rising automation, that end state of being…
Long flights are useful for clearing inboxes, a task made much more palatable if you think of it a bit like panning for gold. Amid the deluge of not-that-important or -interesting stuff, you occasionally find a gem that sparks a thought.
This is part two of a four-part series on the changing shape of employment, the emergence of the collaborative economy, and the potential impacts on higher education. Insights for this piece came in part from the recent Thomas Friedman…
In the present and future you will not be hired or engaged because of a position you held or a degree you have but rather because of the value you can create.
This post is both in response to and in collaboration with Barbara Gray’s recent post “Could…
In an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” three days after President Trump’s executive order restricting entry to foreign nationals from seven largely Muslim countries, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer called the ban “a small price to pay” to insure…
This is part one of a four-part series on the changing shape of employment, the emergence of the collaborative economy, and the potential impacts on higher education. Insights for this piece came in part from the recent Thomas Friedman…
This is part three of a four-part series on the changing shape of employment, the emergence of the collaborative economy, the potential impacts on higher education, and the need for a new social contract. Insights for this piece came…