“Being a millennial doesn’t have to mean living in our parents’ basement, growing an artisanal beard, and drinking craft beer or single malt scotch. Midlife doesn’t have to be a crisis. And we don’t have to be a number anymore. We’re relevant. We’re ever blooming....
Life-long learning is the “ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated” pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. It not only enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development, but also self-sustainability as well as competitiveness and employability. There are at least five types of “life-long” learning: ...
Globalization derives from the word globalize, which refers to the emergence of an international network of economic systems. The term globalization had been used in its economic sense at least as early as 1981, and in other senses, probably as early as 1944. The late...
As a so-called “senior” born between 1930 and 1950, I was comfortable with the term “Ageless,” until last week, when I read about Gina Bell, an award-winning creative director and tech entrepreneur. Ms. Bell is currently Content Chief of “The What,” a fast-growing email newsletter,...
After facilitating leadership, management, and learning in the professional services area for nearly 50 years, I have come to the following conclusions: I am getting older (a young 81), and the majority of those engaged in my management workshops are getting younger (25-40). Sociologists have identified...
While facilitating a leadership program for managers of the Dominican Civil Aviation Department in the Dominican Republic a few years ago, my co-facilitator made the following statement to me after one of our lively and interactive change leadership presentations: “Don, you really are quite a...
Two British Leadership theorists and practitioners, Esther Cameron and Mike Green in their text “Making Sense of Change Management” (2012), conclude their book by stating that political, economic, and climate instability are all familiar elements of the global context in which we are now working....