May 23 2012: I find it interesting that a lot of those who say we absolutelyneed managers and without them, companies would fall apart and workers do nothing are South East Asian in ethnicity.
May 23 2012: Seriously, if the only thing keeping you working is a manager hovering over your head, you either need to find something else to do or give your job to someone less of a skivver.
May 19 2012: I think what Mick means is that sometimes the old adage of success being getting up when life knocks you down is not applicable, as getting knocked down is permanent damaging the first time it happens.
May 19 2012: I think it'd be more accurate to say that what she refers to is actually an extended 2nd 'act', because the last 30 years of life are not that different from the way they have always been; the descent into mortality. It's the preceding decades that have been extended from two or three to four, five even six decades of reasonable health and vitality.
Dec 31 2011: I would argue that, yes, it IS merely cheapness disguised as 'innovation'. On the other hand, I think it is job or industry dependant; I've worked in jobs where open space and common areas were far more productive than rigid, discrete spaces. I've also worked in jobs where we DID need closed off office spaces and privacy.
Dec 31 2011: Sometimes pulling your head out of your a** IS the the most difficult stage of moving towards a positive direction....and the hardest to do,sometimes, as YOU were the one who put it up there in the first place...
Dec 23 2011: I think your comment also touches upon the idea of how we should be educating our young; right now, they are taught from the earliest moments to copy us in order to learn. We teach them how to speak, to read, to do math, to do everything seemingly, by modelling it for them. That's a great start, but it limits their behaviour to merely being a mirror of ours. Therefore, they don't get to move out of that modelling paradigm for a long time, if ever.
What we SHOULD be doing is teaching children critical thinking skills from the earliest possible moment they can effectively implement them, so that we ARE benefitting from their passion and their lack of entrenchedness in the "ways things must be done". In that way, we ARE seeing new perspectives and ways of combining 'data', ways that will drive us forward.
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I seriously doubt that this starts at 40 or anywhere near it these days...Even being in your 60s is not old for many people.
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What we SHOULD be doing is teaching children critical thinking skills from the earliest possible moment they can effectively implement them, so that we ARE benefitting from their passion and their lack of entrenchedness in the "ways things must be done". In that way, we ARE seeing new perspectives and ways of combining 'data', ways that will drive us forward.