Tag: passion
Rewriting History
Did John Lyndon Hate The Floyd?
Is Pink Floyd a punk band?
Are people really surprised when Roger Waters delivers protest?
Why is the film not Called ‘Us and Them’?
All this and more in this week’s newsletter.
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‘Real Stories | Real People’ is a new occasional series that will start to appear on this blog in the not too distant future. But that’s not the point of the newsletter. The point was first to share the story of Richard Montañez
Play, Passion, Purpose
Needless to say those three words grabbed my attention immediately. And then when he said …
The culture of schooling is radically at odds with the culture of learning that produces innovators.
Tony Wagner
I was hooked.
Very good Ted Talk – just one gripe …
He just about opens the talk with
I came to understand, that there’s a set of core competencies every young person must be well on their way to mastery before he or she finished high school.
– critical thinking and problem solving
– collaboration across networks and leading by influence
– agility and adaptability
– initiative and entropenorialism
– effective oral and written communication
– accessing and analyzing information
– curiosity and imagination
Tony Wagner
i.e. if you have left school, sorry – we taught you all wrong as to how to succeed in the life in front of you.
What he should have said was
I came to understand, that there’s a set of core competencies every person must master.
I know he doesn’t mean it and I guess it is about education – but the implication is that you have left school then ‘we taught you all wrong’.
Keeping that in mind … well worth a watch.
Work-Life Balance
Trading my time for the pay I get (up!)
The Vogues
Living on money that I ain’t made yet (up!)
Gotta keep goin’ gotta make my way (up!)
But I live for the end of the day (up!)
Written in 1965 – and nothing has changed. This newsletter introduced you to the 4P model of People First … Pay, Purpose, Play and Passion.
With a more open, enlightened recruiting process there is so much more that people could do in any company if they were given the chance. The answer is to stop job filling and start fulfilling.
You can read the whole of Issue Number 8 here.
People: Brad
Brad studied and graduated in Aerodynamics and then went on to work in Florida, before moving to Virginia as an Aeronautical Engineer.
And then he ‘had the rug pulled out from under him’.
People: Candy
I met Candy while she was having dinner with her beau … Brian. She is a truck driver who operates as far North as Seattle and as far South as San Jose.