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To pivot: a change in direction, sometimes despite great present-day success. Breathless future-facing magazines laud this move. Indeed, Fast Company’s “The Pivot” series does so as it: …explores those destiny-altering decisions made by companies that have gone on to great success. Read more about their course corrections–and alternate endings. I’ve recently experienced four occasions of “pivoting”,…
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The subject line sounds like the setup to a joke, but it’s not. Neither is Microsoft announcing Office for iPad. Finally. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been experimenting with leaving my laptop behind and leaping into the fray armed only with a handheld smart device. I emceed the annual IN-NW social engagement conference with…
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Learning and work are becoming inseparable in the knowledge economy: what it means for professionals
People will need to learn constantly and increase their skills. It is no longer reasonable to expect that a large upfront investment in schooling will pay back over a lifetime. The economy and technology now change too quickly for students to keep up: a computer language learned in a four-year degree programme might be obsolete…
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Our city’s fan-powered Super Bowl victory reminded me how much Seattle needs to fight to steal away attention from the media capitals on the east coast and in California. I even have this crazy theory that as disinterested corporate titans in the New York area gave up their tickets to the game thereby depressing secondary…