Looking for a Job When You’re No Longer Young – Anne Kreamer – Harvard Business Review.
I present the link without further comment.
Survival strategies
The Doctor Is Out: Young Talent Is Turning Away From Primary Care
Link posted without further comment. A must read article.
Glass of Wine Eases Stroke Risk in Women
A study of more than 80,000 women found that low to moderate alcohol consumption was associated with a 17% to 21% reduction in risk of stroke.
Latin America: Where the world’s jobs are
Latin America: Where the world’s jobs are – CSMonitor.com.
So far, 200 entrepreneurs from 30 different countries have traveled to Chile to try to get their ideas off the ground through Start-Up Chile. The program aims to fund 1,000 entrepreneurs by 2014, and not only benefits the grantees – 80 percent of whom are foreigners – but is a boon to Chile, too, says spokeswoman Brenna Loury.
Interesting little article that offers minimal facts to back up the author’s assertion in the title. How does 200 entrepreneurs equal “where the world’s jobs are”?
Do Positive Emotions Increase Life Satisfaction?
The answer is yes and they do it by building resilience. University of North Carolina professor Barbara Fredrickson has spent the past two decades looking into why we have positive emotions and what we do with them. She even has her own term for her work: positivity.
via Do positive emotions increase life satisfaction?.
As a general rule try to avoid overly negative people.
Scary Charts – Labor Force Participation At Lowest Since 1984
The NFP report confirms the picture we have all known to grow and love – the people “entering” the labor force are temp workers, those with marginal job skills, and making the lowest wages. For everyone else: better luck elsewhere: the number of people not in the labor force has soared by 7.5 million since January 2007, and the average duration of unemployment is 40.8 weeks – essentially in line with last month’s record 40.9. Bottom line – if you are out of a job, you are out of a job unless you are willing to trade down to an entry level “temp-like” position with virtually no benefits or job security.
Click the link for the charts. In prior posts I’ve reproduced Scary Charts on my website. For these charts I’d like my readers to go to the source, especially if you have never read Zero Hedge.
I spend a lot of my “free” time catching up on the news. Saturday mornings are my favorite time to catch up on news, think, and reflect. We all need time to think deeply.
Networking for Survival – HBR
Without the network, you don’t get new ideas into your organization, you don’t see trends and issues that affect you and your customers, you don’t grow and develop your people with new challenges and opportunities, you aren’t attractive for young talent, you don’t learn about new technologies or business models, you don’t create new markets and you risk deluding yourself with your own ideas. You don’t increase your own value and advance your own career. Without the network you stagnate, you become stale. With the network you grow, provide meaningful and valuable solutions to your customers and not just survive, but thrive.
via Networking for Survival – Deborah Mills-Scofield – Harvard Business Review.
Great post and well worth reading. One comment caught my eye,
When new forms of communication emerge, don’t just look at how to improve what you’re doing already, but at new ways of doing.
I immediately thought of social media as a new way of doing. My transition from a dumb phone to a smartphone is a new way of doing (for me). One of my new projects for the New Year is to create a Google+ business page. Is this an “improvement”? Not really. It’s just a new way of doing.
Humankind 2012: The Transformation of Aspiration
I stumbled upon the Leo Burnett advertising agency website while researching brands. Click the link to be taken to a short video and article summary of our challenges and opportunities in the year ahead. Embers of opportunity abound, little opportunities just waiting for someone to pick them.
Well worth a few minutes of your time.
How to Accomplish More by Doing Less – HBR
How to Accomplish More by Doing Less – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review.
Amen brother, amen.
Sun Life Pulls Plug on U.S. businesses – The Globe and Mail
Sun Life pulls plug on key U.S. businesses – The Globe and Mail.
The Boston Herald reports 800 will lose their jobs in MA.
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