Innovation: The Who's Where's and How's

I was having a chat with a recruiter the other day and of course I took the opportunity to share my insights into his industry. Let me just say that one of the big, gigantic, jumbo mega trends out there and is that nothing - nothin - can or should remain static. Static is dead and dynamic is in. Why, you may ask? Because technology (mostly informational) has created the ecosystem to make everything dynamic; there is no industry out there that cannot benefit somehow from the adoption of new informational technologies to make their relationship with its employees or customers much more dynamic, real and transparent. Needless to say the “recruiting” industry is one that is absolutely ripe for dynamism starting with how they engage the new generation of workers and how they properly engage the tail-end of baby boomers that have been frustrated by their leading edge cohorts (now retiring) that have intensity and pent up energy, packed with immense knowledge in their brains and with a desire...

Just when one thinks no one is listening - or reading- one gets a couple of emails from friends as to why I have not published. First let me say THANK YOU. It is truly an honor for all of you to take the time to read what I write. At the risk of running into an existential wall, one is always questioning if there is true value on what one has to say and getting notes from some of you confirms that – well – perhaps there is something there. Thanks again for your time. Life is busy and getting busier with all sorts of new demands on our time, a lot of them driven by new technologies. Dedicated attention is definitely becoming a paramount commodity which should be accorded its proper amount of respect. With this in mind, let us talk about “engagement energy”. As is always the case – at least with my odd psyche- my insights are developed from multiple vectors and the two most relevant ones on this occasion occurred during a high performance driving (www.driversedge.org) school for teenager...