In last week’s post, I discussed the CRAN diet (Calorie Restriction with Adequate Nutrition). It’s a diet that is intended to prolong healthy life by drastically reducing calorie intake. Anyone who follows the diet will lose excess weight as a side benefit, but that is not the purpose of the diet. Continue reading
Are you tired of counting calories or juggling the percentages of carbs, fats, and proteins that you consume in an effort to improve your health? You can discard all that bother by adopting the carnivore diet, which is simplicity itself. Eat nothing but meat, preferably fatty beef, and drink nothing but water. Don’t worry about sticking to a schedule for meals. Just eat whenever you are hungry, and keep on eating until you feel full. No need to worry about measuring servings. Continue reading
When the word “industry” is used in conversation, the picture painted in most minds is a gritty shop floor and blue-collar individuals on an assembly line.
While this visceral image is still true to some degree, when you add the term “4.0” after the word “industry,” newfound interest perks in the minds of both white-collar and digital technology professionals. Simultaneously, fear looms in the hearts of those blue-collar workers accustomed to that initial visual of what industry means. They think instantly of job loss, robots, and artificial intelligence (A.I.) deleting them from the equation. Continue reading
I have been speaking at conferences and conducting workshops for many years. I have presented throughout the world and consider myself fortunate that I have generally had wonderful experiences engaging with attendees, organizers, sponsors, etc. However, as you will see in this article, one can run across a ‘bad apple’ and it may not initially present itself as a ‘bad apple’. My hope is to enlighten you a bit as you seek to find that speaking spot, sponsorship and attend a conference. Continue reading
Part 1 of this two-part article offered an analysis of the origins of the longstanding worker-owner contract and weighed the opinions of thought leaders as to where the human endeavor of work may go.
To get a better sense of the shifting sands inherent in this issue, it helps to consider an acronym that the U.S. Army coined more than 30 years ago: VUCA, which stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Strategic instructors at the U.S. Army War College began using the term to describe the unpredictable New World Order emerging at that time from the ashes of the Cold War. Continue reading