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Nostalgia Can Help Us Build a Better Future

October 29, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

There is a widespread consensus that we’re on the cusp of a workplace revolution that will automate millions of jobs and replace millions of workers. Among the many questions is whether these displaced workers will still be able to support themselves … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: artificial intelligence, augmented intelligence, automation, future of work, making the most of a crisis, reflective nostalgia, relationship with technology, sustainability, Svetlana Boym, workforce disruption

The Work That Our Fragile World Needs Now

October 21, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

After 9/11, I had a two-part image in my head. I recall the strikingly clarity and vividness of that morning as if it were yesterday.  A storm had swept the Northeast the day before, giving rise to a rare meteorological phenomenon … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work, Heroes & Other Role Models Tagged With: acts of faith hope and love, climate change, global warming, interdependence, Joel Sartore, Photo Arc, Robert MacFarland, stewards of the earth, sustainability, Underland, world creating language

Valuing Nature in Ways the World Can Understand

October 14, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Nature has a big problem.  Too few of us believe that climate change will happen here or will affect us personally if it does. But these misperceptions are only one aspect of the problem. Too many decision makers--and too many workers caught in the … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Building Your Values into Your Work, Daily Preparation, Entrepreneurship Tagged With: carbon capture, carbon sequestration, climate change, cost benefit analysis, costs and benefits, earth tech, financing transition costs of confronting climate change, global warming, IMF, right whales, value of a whale, value of nature, whales

The Next Crisis Will Be a Terrible Thing to Waste

September 30, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

We are moving into less settled times both here and in the rest of the world. Several different storms are gathering along the waterfront today: - in politics, with gridlock both breaking down and intensifying over impeachment and the future course … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Being Proud of Your Work, Building Your Values into Your Work, Continuous Learning, Daily Preparation, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: balance between people and profits, crisis wasted, economic policy, employer and employee assessment, environmental stewardship, opportunity during crisis, priorities, rebuilding, thriving workers, work, working

Making Our Jobs as Big (or as Small) as Possible

September 24, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

We bring our priorities into our work--making it more purposeful and satisfying--by using our capabilities more deliberately and by demonstrating our values when we do our jobs. Our basic “capabilities” include our personal autonomy (or the drive … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Being Proud of Your Work, Building Your Values into Your Work, Continuous Learning, Daily Preparation, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: capabilities, climate change, global warming, job crafting, making the most out of your job, priorities, values, work

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