One of the most widely circulated articles on the Internet this week is this AP story on the dimming luster of programming jobs. “As tens of thousands of engineering jobs migrate to developing countries, many new entrants into the U.S. work force see info tech jobs as monotonous, uncreative and easily farmed out — the […]
A Whole New Mind has crept south of the equator. The Brazil edition is just hitting stores there. It bears a different title and it’s been translated into Portuguese, but the content is the same. The Australia/New Zealand edition, with a slinky on the cover, comes out in a few weeks. Several more international editions,
By 2008, more than half the jobs in engineering could be done anywhere in the world, says a McKinsey study. What’s more, India already has as many young engineers as the U.S. And China has twice as many. Yet, according to this David Wessel column in the Wall Street Journal, engineering remains a viable career
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That’s the commencement advice that Steve Jobs offered to Stanford graduates last week. (Thanks to T.J. Peters for this one.)
CNN reports that companies such as Procter & Gamble and New Balance are tapping a new source for smart designs: college students. The attraction? A beginner’s mind. “The students’ lack of exposure to the industry allowed them to generate fresh, new ideas,” says one design exec. (Thanks to Bradley Shafer for this one.)
Researchers at a London medical school have found that dull, routine work can lead to heart disease. Even after controlling for risk factors such as smoking, poor diet, and lack of exercises, the researchers found that men who had little control over their jobs had faster and less variable heart rates, two conditions that elevate
“What we’ve got at GM now is a general comprehension that you can’t run this business by the left, intellectual, analytical side of the brain. You have to have a lot of right side, creative input. We are in the arts and entertainment business, and we’re putting a huge emphasis on world-class design.” — GM
Just back from a great trip to Toronto. We had a chance to talk to a few hundred people at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, then a few hundred more at an Actors Studio-style event at the Rotman School of Management. (Hats off to Alex Sirota, Jana Schilder, Brian Kilgore, and the Rotman School,
Thomas P.M. Barnett – author, military strategy guru, and blogger – pleads: “Will someone please tell my wife my kids don’t need to be good at math?” Interesting reading. So is Barnett’s influential book, The Pentagon’s New Map, just out in paperback.
