Does your work allow you to alternate between tasks that use your hands and body and those that use your mind? Does your work allow you to experience many different jobs, never remaining in one position for too long? Can you alternate between solitary work, where you exercise personal responsibility and group work, where you share work responsibilities? Do you have enough responsibility and authority to effectively execute your work duties? Can you use your imagination and resources to solve your work challenges or are you forced to follow someone else's idea about the "best" way to do things? When…

It's Just Business. It's not Personal. Two sets of wishful thinking have thus far dominated trade and industry: The "free enterprise" practices of "pure" capitalism, including minimal regulation and private ownership of production, distribution, and exchange. The business school tropes of profit maximization, capital accumulation, and "free market" competition. I call these "wishful thinking" because they hide the true costs of unregulated business. These include Poverty. Environmental degradation. Crumbling infrastructure. Declining levels of education. Inadequate or expensive healthcare. Lower than fair compensation to workers. Accumulation of vast wealth into the hands of the few. When the wealth generated by the…

Technology is not the focus. It's the connection the technology makes possible Human augmentation by technology is now available to everyone, everywhere. We can hold in our hands, immense computing power. We are connected, one to another, through the global network we variously call the Internet, Web, or Interweb. This communication and augmentation means that in today's world, business can be, and increasingly is, much more than "just business." This revolutionary change is an evolutionary shift. The revolution and evolution are of connection, not technology. Technology is not the focus. Technology is the facilitator making it all possible. More each…