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Future of Talent Mini-Retreat, Silicon Valley
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“The Age of Women in Leadership”
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Webinar: “Visual Tools for Innovation” Feb. 16
Future of Talent’s Eileen Clegg will discuss how to use simple visuals to spark group innovation Feb. 16, 9 am PST. Register now
“Quality of Hire: Myth or Measurement?”
New White Paper from Kevin Wheeler at Future of Talent Publications
Build the Business Acumen for Change
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“Feelings Go to Work” White Paper
As Tom Peters said, “Emotion matters. What else is there?…” Future of Talent has launched the “Feelings Go to Work” series to look at the facts about the role of emotions in business, and to create a framework to enable productive discussions. To start the new conversation, we looked at four categories of how companies approach the opportunities and challenges of feelings in the work place. Members, login to download your copy. Non-members, please get membership information here.
Self-Connecting Collaborative Systems
For decades organizations and individuals have tried to build teams—with mixed success. Hierarchy, isolation and poor communication, individual goals and reward systems have made collaboration difficult. How can we embrace transparency, leverage technology, and make it easier for everyone to share and contribute?
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Pictures from Piha New Zealand
by Kevin Wheeler on 11 December 2011
A small diversion. I’ve been spending a few days in one of my favorite places – New Zealand. This is a country full of beautiful hiking trails, deserted beaches, and spectacular views. And not far from the largest city, Auckland, lie black sand beaches and bush country hiking trails. Many people live near the beaches and work in [...] Read More >>
“The Medium is the Massage” in 2011
by Kevin Wheeler on 3 December 2011
The year is 1967 and an academic named Marshall McLuhan writes a book. It's a book called "The Medium is the Massage," with only a few pages, pictures, white space and not very many words. It would revolutionize how we think about media. Read More >>
5 Trends that will Shape our Future
by Kevin Wheeler on 17 November 2011
At our Future of Talent Retreat this past weekend, I laid out the five trends I see as dominating the next decade or more. In an age of mechanization, such as the 20th century, we glorified all things mechanical and we developed hierarchal and mechanistic systems to govern the creation of those mechanical things. This was necessary to enable us to develop the technology and tools [...] Read More >>