Category: Observations & Ideas

The Great Risk Shift

For over 100 years companies have gotten better and better at shifting risk onto the professional. Here are some ways they do it.

Continuing Education from the educators point of view

How does a traditional university educator see Continuing Education in the information age?

A PhD in Bacardi: Repost

Here is a reworking of one of one of my early posts. It’s a story about a PhD who had to sell vacations to pay off student loan debt.

When Uber becomes Lyft, and why both are putting Professionals out of a Job.

Uber and Lyft are masters at driving productivity, so again, why do you need management?

Three Legged Stool of Retirement Coda – The fallacy of 70%

Financial experts advise having 70% of your working income for retirement. It’s just not enough.

The Three Legged Stool of Retirement

Social Security isn’t enough, 401K isn’t enough, Pension isn’t enough, but together… Now we have something!

University of the People

There is a unique window of opportunity just now starting for professionals.