"the only way to keep your job nowadays is to constantly re-invent it"

Love the cartoon. Love the message.

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Noah

Exchanging ideas with people working in totally different fields is a great way to source inspiration and keep the creative processes ticking over.

I’ve spent the last couple of days sharing ideas with a video producer and an events organiser. What could a writer/blogger take from those fields and vice-versa? You’d be surprised 🙂

When does the creativity start? Because I’m seeing nothing but lameness and mechanical errors.

ice

Very true point.

You have to be multiple steps in front of where your business is, finding new ways to add value personally and within the teams you participate. Ideally, you’re also working another plan on how the capabilities and skills you’re developing can deliver outside to other businesses, just in case.

Well, let’s see, being creative. Maybe the long-term unemployed I know who have worked several decades in Human Resources could create a younger person, because it’s as clear as anything can be that those over 50 are pretty much dead meat. And maybe those who worked in manufacturing jobs that have now been sent to China could create a way of living on a handful of rice every day in hopes that those jobs might come back to the USA.

Meanwhile, people like Carly Fiorina can run for the U.S. Senate in California, using job creation as one of her campaign objectives. This is the woman who, when she headed Hewlett Packard, sent some twenty or thirty thousand jobs to India. Later, when she was fired by the HP board, she left the company with a twenty-million-dollar golden parachute.

Really, what’s going on is what has always gone on. Whenever those at the top of the food chain can do it, they find ways to pay starvation wages. They do it because (1) they can and (2) at some level they think it is perfectly OK for them to live off the misery of others.

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