#237 – FUTURE OF WORK: RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NEW WORLD OF WORK: PART 2 – MIKE RICHMAN

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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

#236 – WHAT IS PROCESSED FOOD AND WHY DO POPULAR DIETS SAY TO AVOID IT? – ALLEN TAYLOR

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By the strictest definition of the term, practically everything we eat is a processed food.

  • If you cut the leafy part off a stalk of celery, you have processed it.
  • Any food that comes in a can has been processed.
  • Any bag of frozen fruit or vegetables has been processed.
  • That milk that you pour on your processed corn flakes has been processed.
  • Any loaf of organic, non-GMO, gluten-free bread that you buy in a store has been processed.
  • Any loaf of bread that you bake in your own oven has been processed.
  • Any food that you cook in any way has been processed.

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#236 – FUTURE OF WORK – OLD CONTRACT: PART 1 – MIKE RICHMAN

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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man’s nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems, they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.”— Erich Fromm Continue reading

#235 – HOW TO SUPPORT ANOTHER WOMAN AT WORK – ELIZABETH LIONS

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“I just don’t like working with women. They are so catty. I’d prefer to work with men and when I look around, all of my friends are men too.” she said to me over coffee.

“I used to feel that way.” I responded. “Then I realized that the women I didn’t like were more like me than I thought they were. Somehow rather than reject them, I embraced them.”  Continue reading