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12/21/2020

Wait 'til next year . . . - https://mailchi.mp/comradity/wait-til-next-year

12/21/2020

Chuck Yeager risked his life as a WWII ace fighter pilot and then a test pilot. As a test pilot, he and the Bell XS-1 rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier, opening minds to the possibility that man-made materials could survive space travel. Tom Wolfe, fascinated by what motivated the pioneers of the US Space program in “The Right Stuff,”...

Chuck Yeager risked his life as a WWII ace fighter pilot and then a test pilot. As a test pilot, he and the Bell XS-1 rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier, opening minds to the possibili…

12/21/2020

The Covid Crisis has been a catalyst to change in many businesses. Almost every business has reacted to the shutdown by doing things differently. Many voices in business strategy thought leadership have been giving business leaders examples and techniques to plan what to do differently. Here are some I regard highly because they don’t claim to have THE answer but offer the right questions for businesses to find the answer that’s right for them, …...

The Covid Crisis has been a catalyst to change in many businesses. Almost every business has reacted to the shutdown by doing things differently. Many voices in business strategy thought leadership…

11/28/2020

The stock market rallied to a record 30,000 after two successful Covid vaccine tests were announced. But the story behind the vaccine has implications for the future. Shared by Safi Bahcall, author of "Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries" these vaccines are based on Dr. Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian born biochemist, with a "crazy idea: use the body’s own cells to manufacture drugs." which was ignored by grant providers and universities for decades....

The stock market rallied to a record 30,000 after two successful Covid vaccine tests were announced. But the story behind the vaccine has implications for the future. Shared by Safi Bahcall, author…

11/08/2020

Protect your Family, Friends, and Comradity Members

We’ve learned a lot about mitigating the risk of exposure to the Corona virus while inside COMRADITY. But we can’t control the risk for exposure beyond our walls. And that risk is increasing. This …

10/06/2020

The COMRADITY Organization Ecosystem Customers Organizations which license COMRADITY pods Leadership Vision Advisory Board led by CO-founders, Katherine & Jim Kern ”Back-end” Partners Local Service Businesses: Real Estate Management, Food Service, Health & Wellness, Transportation Unique Global L&D experts who develop leaders and young talent competencies for the Future of Work Employees Certified COMRADITY Guides Research/Thought Leadership Financial Management ”Front-end” Partners Real Estate Brokers Architects/Designers

The COMRADITY Organization Ecosystem Customers Organizations which license COMRADITY pods Leadership Vision Advisory Board led by CO-founders, Katherine & Jim Kern ”Back-end” Partners Local Ser…

10/06/2020

One reason society, organizations, and technology aren't inclusive is because managing diverse talent is complex. Diverse cultures, race, gender, and age offer a wide range of perspectives, complicating systems designed for one norm, not outliers, to maintain quality efficiently. Efficiency, by definition, forces trade-offs, choosing one way of doing things. Efficiency is just one strategy for profitability - and has been the strategy of choice for the past 20 years as organizations globalized. [ 316 more words ]

One reason society, organizations, and technology aren’t inclusive is because managing diverse talent is complex. Diverse cultures, race, gender, and age offer a wide range of perspectives, c…

09/15/2020

Recently, I received an invitation to respond to an MIT Sloan Management Review survey about the Future of the Workforce. They are: "particularly interested in how companies are engaging with alternative types of workers (beyond full-time employees) and collaborating with external participants." My hypothesis is that they will find that organizations don't engage with outside partners and collaborate with them, based on conversations I've had with organizations about [ 395 more words ]

Recently, I received an invitation to respond to an MIT Sloan Management Review survey about the Future of the Workforce. They are: “particularly interested in how companies are engaging with…

09/05/2020

While others are pointing fingers, we are thinking about the underlying motivations of the protests and how leaders may respond. Malcolm Gladwell writes about the “Tipping Point,” when little things make a big difference. What are the seemingly unrelated but connected things that bring these diverse protesters together? We have an hypothesis that there is grief - mourning the loss of all the human qualities which we gave up for a system that failed to predict and protect us - creativity, originality, diversity. [ 476 more words ]

While others are pointing fingers, we are thinking about the underlying motivations of the protests and how leaders may respond. Malcolm Gladwell writes about the “Tipping Point,” when little thing…

07/04/2020

Words are good. Action makes a difference.

Today we celebrate the American Revolution. The American Revolution was driven by economic, social, and political divisiveness, just as we experience now. We aren’t the first to experience it…

06/15/2020

Almost everyone is faced with difficult conversations today. Uncomfortable because they are sparked by the impact economies of scale have on humanity - the conflicting interests between ‘we’ and ‘me’ - as Walt Whitman expressed during the industrial revolution in "O Me! O Life!" in Leaves of Grass, 1891 (scroll down). The impact of economies of scale on humanity. The Wall Street Journal article “ [ 862 more words ]

Almost everyone is faced with difficult conversations today. Uncomfortable because they are sparked by the impact economies of scale have on humanity – the conflicting interests between ‘we’ …