We would not be here as a species if learning and change had not taken

Imagine a group of Neanderthals, sitting around their fire in the cave, when ‘Karg’, the most free-thinking of the hunters, using whatever grunts and motions he had available, speaks to his fellows. ‘You know, guys, we got the mastodon today, but I wonder how we could kill them without losing so many of us in the process?!’...

Experts are giving more credence to genetics and the gender gap.  Professional

opinion has finally caught up to what rational human beings have known since Adam took it in the ribs.  There are significant differences between men and women. Job performance is influenced—for example, women test stronger in pattern recognition, men appear stronger...

CEOs can secure corporate viability during growth by picking up the baton

Like jazz groups, successful small companies create a dedicated following because a limited number of players are in tune with the founder’s vision. They know their strengths and limitations, cover for each other, become experts at shooting from the hip, changing direction on the fly, and multi-tasking—in short, they are capable and prepared to...

The shift-age (labeled such by futurist David Houle) is transforming our

lives and radically changing the way business will be done.  Like a large number of our ancestors who experienced and end to the “age of extraction”—where people made a  living by farming, fishing, logging, hunting, and trapping, many individuals and companies have not...

I remember experiencing bad hair days because a colleague  smacked his

Overreaction to insignificant events is usually about control issues and judging.  Humans spend an inordinate amount of time trying to get others to do as they do, believe as they believe, feel as they feel and even chew as they chew.  We focus on the faults of others because doing so is less painful than dealing with our own shortcomings.  “...

don't waste time and resources trying to develop non adaptive employees

A significant success factor for supervisors, managers, executives, and CEOs is knowing when and how to fire in a rapidly changing and fiercely competitive world—referred to by futurist David Houle as the shift-age.  Many managers, labor leaders, and government regulators are haunted by industrial-age ghosts.  Unknowingly, they are being influenced...

Given the state of the international economic crisis, business must become

Our new reality is that things are changing all the time—we must train ourselves to notice and respond. When nothing appears the same from moment to moment, our mind creates a fantasy of ‘the way things are’ and the untrained tend to hold onto that view for dear life. We often mentally mold people and events into what makes sense to us...

My dream was to be outstanding in my field.  I finally made it.  That

Many of my childhood chums had chosen to live their entire lives in the environmental masterpiece that, although I left as a teenager, never stopped calling home.  When my school chums and I got together, we reflected on our differing career paths.  The talkee usually ended up with his/her eyes glazed over, listening wistfully and somewhat enviously...

Using a special date such as New Years as a watershed for personal growth

 2. Draw a relationship target.  Place yourself and loved ones in the bull’s eye.  In the second ring, list your best friends.  In the next add good friends, then on to casual friends, and in the last ring associates such as neighbors and colleagues.  Inventory where you spent time last year.  My initial assessment identified that I spent time...

The poem, Beowulf , written in Old English sometime before the tenth century

A.D., describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century.   Beowulf , the oldest surviving epic in British literature, exists in only one manuscript. This copy survived both the wholesale destruction of religious artifacts during the dissolution...