Some years ago, we had a recruitment consultant speaker at one of the associations I am involved with. A participant asked the question: What should someone who is 60+ and looking for work- do? The speaker was a seasoned older professional from New York and not used to mincing his words …. ” This did not happen to you suddenly” was his answer, which I thought was rather cruel at the time.But today when I think about it, we tend to neglect our own professional development , even when everything is going rather well.
Category Archives: Careers/Jobs Strategy
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell- Three Takeaways
“Success” according to Gladwell is not only a function of one individual’s grit and determination but is related to a whole bunch of “preparation” that goes in by family,culture,history,date of birth and so on.
Turbulent times make B2B and Supply Managers more important in organizations
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The Stimulus and Procurement Reform
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Small Business, Google AdWords and B2B Marketing in a recession
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From Culture’s Consequences to “Project Match” – IBM needs to add home country fixed costs
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Happy Earth Day -“Green” Value Chain and Clorox
Today is "Earth Day" and here is to wishing readers a very happy earth day! The Earth day movement has an interesting timeline and there is much to celebrate in terms of the progress we have made globally. However, much needs to be done. I had written about how B2B folks can help with greeningContinue reading “Happy Earth Day -“Green” Value Chain and Clorox”
Super bowl ads “people power” and “global outsourcing”
The Superbowl ads are always a great reflection of our times and more importantly changing times. For the very first time viewers have created an ad- The Crash the Superbowl-Doritos ad. The empowering of the amateur ad person i.e. "You" is a catclysmic change in the way clients and advertising agency creative people will workContinue reading “Super bowl ads “people power” and “global outsourcing””
Malcolm Gladwell “Tipping Point” and outsourcing
I read Malcolm Gladwell’s "Tipping Point" over the last summer while in India. I was impressed by Gladwell’s neat analysis of what causes rapid change. This is the tipping point kind off take-off graph. On the other hand diffusion of innovation scholars lead by the late Everett Rogers of whom I am a rather loyalContinue reading “Malcolm Gladwell “Tipping Point” and outsourcing”
The word “Outsourcing”
One of my industry contacts on the outsourcer side once revealed over lunch that his American born ( probably 3rd Generation) parents were chiding him for being the outsourcing manager of a financial sector major. My friend’s Dad lamented that he was overseeing the "export of American jobs" and was generally unwilling to share theContinue reading “The word “Outsourcing””