Discussion on employment and the new economy

[BTox]

Interesting read from the Conference Board on job loss in the U.S. as the economy evolves. So Kerry thinks he's going to bring back all those manufacturing jobs? OK... :rolleyes:


conference board new economy (http://www.conference-board.org/articles/atb_article.cfm?id=239&pg=1)

[Solitaire]

Originally posted by BTox
Interesting read from the Conference Board on job loss in the U.S. as the economy evolves.

:D
I read this sort of crap twenty years ago in Industry Week.
And it was pretty stale and uninformative then!

"Second," he continues, "to maintain our innovation lead,
we need to push for more people receiving advanced math,
science, and technology education. Grad schools in those areas
are dominated by foreign students. We're just not generating
enough people with the kind of high-level technical knowledge
to do the innovation in the new technologies and in the realms
of innovation that are going to be dominant in the next quarter-century."

Do these guys ever bother to read the paper's want ads?
And aren't these the sort of jobs that were going over seas?

Mitroff insists that top workers must "be comfortable with huge
amounts of uncertainty. That's part of the new skill set. They will
have to learn how to solve ill-defined problems, to retool and regear,
to learn inter- and transdisciplinary education, to make connections
between problems and issues. Everyone will have to learn systems
thinking, what the properties are of complex systems and how that
can be used as a problem-solving skill. People are going to have to
learn the art of problem formulation. They're going to have to learn
how to question assumptions—in fact, a whole discipline for challenging
assumptions. They're going to have to grapple with complex, fuzzy
issues that are often in conflict, that are contradictory. It's a totally
different philosophy of inquiry."

Dilbert cartoon.

Top executives in particular, of course, face broader issues than
their own careers—and are, if anything, at greater risk than front-line
white-collar workers of losing their place in the next economy. If all the
positions you used to supervise are 8,000 miles away, and your salary
is now thousands of times higher than theirs, you're affordable only if
you can offer something truly extraordinary.

You serve on other boards of directors.
Hire your friends and they hire you back.
;)