Events
Skills for a Future Career - the C.A.P.A.B.L.E Future
Thursday 27 October 2016
This is Part One from this year's chat where I suggest they need to develop a C.A.P.A.B.L.E. Future
For the past few years I've been lucky enough to have been asked by SEBN and SELLEN to talk to a couple of hundred kids about their futures and the skills they might need. As two excellent training and development organisations, SEBN and SELLEN bring kids in from upto 15 High Schools in the region to hear from relatively recent graduates about what they've learned since joining the workforce. Your CAPABLE Future Part One is the longer of the two clips (at about 15mins & Part Two at about 6mins). I explain why the school system is designed to turn out sausages, why kids need to challenge what they are learning and how they are taught, and why 'Life-Long Learning' is a load of rubbish but Learning for Life is critical
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Sunday 20 May 2018
McKinsey's interview with Richard Thaler on 'debiasing the corporation' is a really good one. I've spent the best part of two decades trying to help organisations unpack their biases through the use of foresight. I recommend this article to you
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Monday 23 April 2018
As the Ipswich Council has determined that recycling schemes are too expensive and indicates it will end collections, the question is 'what happens next'? If result of the explosion in Tip fees by Councils around Australia is anything to go by, what happens next will not be good
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Friday 9 March 2018
As Nations look to develop their understanding of Productivity and more effective planning, National Productivity Councils are often the first point of call for Governments looking for ideas. The Asia Productivity Organisation has been running since 1961 helping its member countries develop more effective approaches. I've just spent a week in Tokyo helping a group of them think about the future
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