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The Future of the Job Market is Not What You Might Think

Just found out about a good article in The Futurist magazine about the future of the job market. In the current economy we're all concerned about creating enough jobs to get back to something...

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Futures Thinking 101

Just came across (via Twitter) an excellent basic guide to futures thinking ("Futures Thinking: The Basics"), written by Jamais Cascio for Fast Company magazine. A good summary: Fortunately, [being a...

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Diane Coles of SCAN Health Wins National Award from IFMA

We’ve just returned from IFMA’s World Workplace 2009, where we joined the other authors of the IFMA Foundation’s new book Cut It Out! in a series of presentations. Cut It Out! is a practical action...

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Future of Work Agenda Newsletter: June 2010

This is the June 2010 issue of our free monthly newsletter, Future of Work Agenda. We welcome comments on any of these articles. You can also access the newsletter directly on our website, at this...

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Taking Charge of Your Future

Charlie Grantham and I were honored to be the keynote speakers at the Corenet Carolina's Chapter major learning event in Charlotte, North Carolina, on August 18. The program, "The Future of Work:...

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Future of Work Agenda Newsletter: October 2010

This is the October 2010 issue of our free monthly newsletter, Future of Work Agenda. We welcome comments on any of these articles. You can also access the newsletter directly on our website, at this...

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Future of Work Agenda Newsletter: November/December 2010

This is the November/December 2010 issue of our free monthly newsletter, Future of Work Agenda. We welcome comments on any of these articles. You can also access the newsletter directly on our...

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Future of Work Survey Findings: Focussing on the Future?

How much time do you spend thinking about, and talking about, the shape of the future that your own organization will experience? We asked some very simple questions like that in our October Future of...

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Is the Future of Work Focused on Staying Home?

I was recently asked a question that I hear all too often: You have been studying today’s most favored methods of working for many years. What are the big headlines about that? Just where are we...

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Next Talking About Tomorrow Conference Call

11 AM Pacific Standard Time May 9, 2012 Free, but advance registration is required. The next "Talking About Tomorrow" conversation will be on Thursday, May 9 , at 9 AM Pacific time. And the one after...

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Taking charge of the future – one day at a time

How often have you been heard someone claim to have “the magic answer” about how to break a bad habit? You know, how to stop drinking all those sugary sodas, or eating all that other junk food? Or...

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Future of Work Agenda, June 2013

  June 2013 We work with senior executives who want to take charge of the future by creating compelling work experiences I'm back. Actually, I haven’t really gone anywhere, except that a few months...

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Choosing to Commit

Every September I find it hard to believe that summer is over. I know, I know; it's not technically over until September 22, but in North America it's already back-to-school time, Labor Day is behind...

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Six Strategies for Enhancing Your Workplace

Note: I am just back from a very full week at IFMA's World Workplace 2013, in Philadelphia., where I reconnected with lots of long-time friends and made many new ones. Look for a series of reports and...

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A New Look at Adult Learning

“The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” -- Alvin Toffler Reading, writing, and 'rithmetic aren’t enough...

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“Sitting May be the New Smoking”

That's what a business colleague said a few weeks ago in a conversation we were having about setting up our home offices - and finding the right desk and chair. We were both concerned about the health...

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Space Planning: That Was Then, This is Now

Several years ago at one of our private client network gatherings Ed Nolan, then a senior real estate executive with Hewlett Packard, commented on how different (and difficult) space planning had...

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What Makes a Learning Experience Unforgettable?

  November 2013 Last month I highlighted Alvin Toffler’s observation that 21st-century literacy meant the ability to learn, unlearn, and relearn – being agile enough to acquire new knowledge and...

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What Will the Future of Work Look Like?

  December 2013 As a self-proclaimed workplace futurist I get asked all the time "What will the future of work really look like?" And it’s an appropriate question to contemplate at the end of the...

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Creating Through Collaboration

  January 2014 In December I described the difficulty (and the risks) of attempting to predict the future more than a few years out. This month I am going to ignore my own good advice and speculate a...

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