I'm off to the Talent 2.0 conference in Orlando to present a paper for nGenera called ''Blue Collar 2.0.'' In the meantime, it appears my keynote at the Insurance and Technology conference in Phoenix last week was well-reviewed. Back after Thanksgiving!

This is a re-run from the old Emphasis Added, originally posted July 25, 2005. It's in line with my current interests and seemed like it was worth a re-post.Imagine for a moment that technology, globalization and other “big trend” factors have transformed the US economy such that the only good job prospects are in the construction industry. In ...

I've just started doing some research for my next project, a paper for nGenera on ''Blue Collar 2.0: How Next Generation Technology and NetGeneration Workers are Transforming Non-Knowledge Work Jobs and Industries,'' and I came across this great article from Fortune magazine from late last year. Writer Nadira Hira, who has written other ...

Thin blogging last week because I have been heads-down working on a couple of proposals. The good news is that Wiley and Microsoft apparently want another book, this one on next-generation leadership. I am looking at teasing out some of the concepts from Chapter 6 of Generation Blend regarding ''Generation X-ecutive,'' and will shortly be looking ...

I saw this piece in today's Seattle Times, headlined ''Industrial Work Force Short on Tech Savvy.'' It's yet another reminder that the skills gap is making itself felt in the US economy, sector by sector, even in the midst of a looming recession. Anyone following the manufacturing industry in the age of globalization knows this is true. US ...

I just finished reading Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams, Alfred Lubrano's excellent first-person account of the divide in values separating blue-collar and professional classes in America. Lubrano, an award-winning journalist and NPR commentator, grew up in the working-class Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn before ...