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No More “Soft Skills”?
The term “soft skills” implies weak or non-essential and so I say, ‘No more soft skills!’. I am on a mission! I have been on this mission for over a decade! I am hoping you will join me. The mission is to have the term “soft skills” be replaced with new term such as “essential […]
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Predict The Future By Leveraging Patterns
There is no crystal ball but there’s a secret that innovators know – you can predict the future by leveraging patterns. It was Abraham Lincoln who said, “the best way to predict the future is to create it”. At NextMapping we help you predict the future by leveraging patterns. In my book, “NextMapping – Anticipate, […]
Read moreThis Big Change Will Create The Future of Work
I am writing this from the Minneapolis airport where I have completed a series of keynotes for clients in the employee relocation industry, clients in the defense industry and clients in the federal government. Although each of these industries may seem disparate and unalike the truth is that every single unique industry has commonalities with […]
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