Everyone Thinks They Are First
A few years ago on a trip to Vietnam, a friend took me to a concert by the Vietnamese National Symphony Orchestra, accompanying a Japanese pianist in a program of American jazz at the Hanoi Opera House. That’s creative globalization at its finest. One of the fun things about that was that the pianist was […]
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Dr William Thomas - Posted in Diversity & Inclusion
- Mar, 30, 2017
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Mar, 30, 2017
Bring the Talent
In the first half of the 2000s the US Army used a new recruiting slogan: Army of One. A lot of people, especially veterans and people who were still in the Army and had been for a while, did not like the new recruiting campaign because they thought it was contrary to the concept of […]
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- Mar, 27, 2017
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Remember Why You Are Here
Economist Milton Friedman famously wrote in 1970 that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.” Stripped of all the discussion about whether or not a corporation is like a person, or how providing jobs and wages and goods and services is how private companies contribute to society, we are left with one […]
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- Mar, 23, 2017
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Rhythmic Workplaces
Hmmm… Jocelyn Glei writes at 99U about the rhythms of work vs the rhythms of creative labor. She highlights what she sees as the differentiation between the two, and discusses how your ability to pursue work effectively is under your control more so than pursuing creative labor effectively. Creativity, it seems, may be subject to […]
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- Mar, 20, 2017
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Fighting For Your Right to Be Outdated
All the discussion about streaming sites’ VPN blocking and other attempts to stop online piracy have, to a large extent, ignored the business models that content owners are following. Many of them, like television networks, they have continued to ignore changes in technology and obvious consumer demand and instead have looked to legal and technological […]
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- Mar, 16, 2017
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