Workplace experiences and career advice seem to be a source of endless fascination for 20-somethings, and entire communities of blogs have sprung up offering all kinds of peer-to-peer guidance on everything from getting past the job interview to personal branding. What you rarely hear is the other side of the story: the experiences of older ...

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As part of my work with Dan Rasmus at Microsoft, we're revisiting the scenario planning framework we developed in 2003 (as explained in our book, Listening to the Future) in light of current events. The following few posts will outline my own ''unofficial'' (e.g., not Microsoft-sanctioned) view of potential outcomes to the economic crisis. This ...

''I suffer from attention surplus disorder, Fraa Orolo liked to say, as if it were funny.'' This line really stood out to me when I heard author Neal Stephenson read from his new book, Anathem, last Monday. Stephenson, along with William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and others, is part of the generation of ''cyberpunk'' authors whose vision of a wired, ...

One of the main issues on the minds of employers is the well-documented willingness of young employees to up and leave if things aren't to their liking. According to a study by the Pew Research Center published in January, 2007, 72 percent of Millennials surveyed thought they had a good chance at landing a high-paying job, and relatively large ...

Over the weekend, the New York Times Magazine ran an excerpt from Parag Khanna's new book under the headline ''Waving Goodbye to Hegemony.'' It spins a future scenario in which US economic, cultural and diplomatic power cannot recover from the damage done over the past eight years, and the US is challenged by ascendent and assertive regional blocs ...

Economists despise information asymmetries in markets, because theoretically, ''perfect'' information leads to optimized pricing. That is, the price of everything reflects the highest amount people are willing to pay, so the allocation of resources best reflects the aggregate values of the market. Today, with pervasive networks and the geometric ...