Creativity, Future of Work, innovative education, Innovative stimulus, Lead, Learn, Looking for insights, People Management, unconference, Work Futures

Maria Giudice on changemakers…

A great speech on changemakers here by Maria Giudice. People who can solve problems based on evolving circumstances. Changemakers. People who can see the patterns around them. Identify the problems in any situation. Figure out ways to solve the problems. Organise fluid teams. Lead collective action. Continually adapt as situations change. Designers are change makers. […]

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Eco Outdoor, Future of Work

The future of recruitment is what?

Video | 18:32 mins For those of you who oversee people strategy in your business you’ve probably felt a change in the air. The recruitment industry has been uberfied people and it’s about time too. I don’t know about you guys but we have been a recruiter-free company for some time after some terrible experiences. So I’m […]

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Find, Future of Work, Innovative stimulus, Lifestyle trends, Looking for insights, social media

forget the resume & link me to your life online

A great post from WSJ via Yahoo on the changing nature of recruitment . . . Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst. Instead of asking for résumés, the New York venture-capital firm—which has invested in Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and other technology companies—asked applicants to send links representing their “Web presence,” […]

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Find, Future of Work

Infomaniac? Check out this aggregator

If you’re an infomaniac and you haven’t seen Alltop then check it out now. Started by “two guys and a gal” in a garage—or more accurately, one guy in home office (Will Mayall), one gal on a kitchen table (Kathryn Henkens), and one Guy in United 2B (Guy Kawasaki). They describe it like this: We […]

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Creativity, Future of Media, Future of Work, Futures, Innovation, Innovative stimulus, Looking for insights, Macro trends, open source, Problem Solve, social media

A little ditty for your next innovation workshop…

Another good piece of innovation stimulus from the lovely Lynette Webb,  Insights Manager at Google who created a Flickr site called “Interesting Snippets”. I’ve profiled her before and this is the latest image to her collection. It comes to us with a great quote from Russell Davies’ blog entry about Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes […]

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