As I've spent time recently in physical therapy and occupational therapy, partnerships have been on my mind. Kelly, my occupational therapist at Be Strong Therapy, has two partners. And she's talked about how a partnership is a lot like a marriage. If that's the case, I reasoned, then perhaps there are similar principles with marriage that can help or hinder a partnership. Ever the scholar, I went outside of personal experience, and back to a literature source to revisit this concept more deeply about informal vs formal partnerships.
A new hiring strategy has emerged over the last year that has attracted the attention of many large companies like IBM, Dell, Bank of America, Walmart, Toshiba, Liberty Mutual and Bristol-Myers-Squibb. Skills-based hiring is a hot topic right now, because of the tight labor market. Businesses and nonprofits, including associations, are searching high and low to find alternative pools of qualified new hires outside the traditional four-year degree and “years of experience” that populate so many current job descriptions. Read on to learn how to better fill your candidate pipeline and avoid pitfalls with non-credentialed professions, by properly harnessing skills-based hiring.
Imagining and planning for the future is not always easy. Sometimes we just can't foresee obstacles until they are right in front of us. But then we must pivot, and quickly.
A busy first quarter of 2024 culminated in my near-death experience (due to medical negligence). This was followed by a long recovery, and new physical realities that have shifted my life, irrevocably. Cancer was essentially the one-punch; and being back in the Emergency Room in April with septic shock, fighting flesh-eating bacteria, was the uppercut. On the bright side, the extra rest provided some time for long-term introspection and decision making.
It also put the interplay between high-performing systems and people, front and center of my hospital bed. In Healthcare, the systems and people have to work well together or patients die. But that's the case in many industries.
The truth is, if you have touched Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon, Spotify, you have already been using AI and integrating it with your everyday life. The only difference is what type of AI you interacted with. Have you played chess on your computer or dialed a customer service line and went through a phone tree? Then you’ve interacted with reactive machines. Have you ever watched a movie Netflix suggested, sat in a self-driving car, accepted an autocorrect or used a spam filter? Then you’ve interacted with Limited Memory. If you’ve talked to Siri or Alexa, or played ChatGPT lately, you’ve interacted with Theory of Mind. If you know about the movie Her where Joaquin Phoenix’s character falls in love with OS system, you have seen the Self-Aware machine played out.
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I've been really enjoying heading to the gym in the morning, greeting the sun and feeling those soothing rays on my face to match the warmth of my muscles when I workout. Periodically I reflect on how a little over a year ago, I couldn't really do this at all while soldiering through chemotherapy and radiation care. My transitions lenses block out a very different kind of bright light radiation from my eyes, as I head eastbound to exercise. And fortunately for all of us, Punxsutawney Phil didn't see my trailing shadow, or his own, so it's a sure thing that our short Winter has now come and gone. Let's hear it for leap years!
