Business Week has an eye-popping cover story that analyzes what’s happened in the U.S. labor market over the past five years. The punchline: Since 2001, the health care sector (which includes pharma and health insurance companies) has added 1.7 million jobs. The rest of the private sector has added . . . uh . . […]
Richard Florida offers a very interesting analysis in this month’s Atlantic showing a (somewhat alarming) demographic realignment in America’s metro areas — a “geographic sorting of people by economic potential” that he dubs “the means migration.” In short, the most “highly skilled, highly educated, and highly paid Americans” are clustering in a small number of
We’re still having trouble getting email on danpink.com. (See Sept. 9 entry below) But we’ve managed to salvage a bunch of email from recent days — and we should have the problem licked pretty soon. That said, if you’ve sent me an email in the last couple of days and haven’t heard back, please send
Are business schools trying to develop a whole new mind in their students? According to the The Wall Street Journal, “During the past school year, M.B.A. students at U.S. and European schools have cooked a gourmet French meal, built sandcastles on the beach, visited the Musee du Louvre, and filmed a parody of ‘The Wizard
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I travel a fair bit, but I never check bags. Ever. That’s made the TSA’s new “no liquids or gels” regime a challenge. (Let’s just say that in a series of contests between speed and hygiene, speed remains undefeated.) But now, this being America and all, an entrepreneur has ridden to the rescue. His name:
Virginia Postrel, author of two great books (this one and that one), quotes Cathy Siepp on one of the central themes of Free Agent Nation: Diversification applies to human capital, too; You’re better off with several clients and customers than with one boss. (Three post-Labor Day cheers for Harry Markowitz!) Meanwhile, across the pond, Kathryn
Just came across a fascinating, but infuriating, Slate story about how public companies are protecting their executives from falling housing prices by guaranteeing the sale price of execs’ homes. Nothing illegal here. Just disgraceful. And hypocritcal. As Michelle Leder writes, “companies that depend on free markets are making sure their own executives are safeguarded from
Garr Reynolds, whose Presentation Zen blog is one of about 15 must-reads in my NetNewsWire Lite RSS reader, has a great post that applies the lessons of AWNM to presentations. More important, if you haven’t been hipped to Presentation Zen, visit the site and add it to your own RSS reader. It’s one of those
Penn’s Joel Waldfogel reviews a couple of recent studies (mentioned here on August 3) showing an earnings edge for left-handed males. The reasons seem to trace back to right-brain thinking, our brains being contralateral and all. What’s most interesting is that advantage intensifies with education. As Waldfogel writes, “These results suggest that education and an
