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After writing my last blog entry on a multicultural workforce, where I recommended that Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers is required reading for leaders and managers, my friend Roland asked me what about people who aren’t in positions of power. I had already been thinking about this topic, and here’s the response.
The answer to his question actually goes beyond cultural differences and can potentially help anyone who has more analytical intelligence (the kind you learn in school) than practical intelligence (the kind you pick up along the way of life).
For any individual with more analytical than practical intelligence, Outliers is particularly helpful, because reading the ...read more
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I have recently been thinking a lot about a potentially controversial topic, so it’s taken me a while to write about it—the complexity of a multicultural workforce—the pros/cons and the losses/rewards of nimbly managing it. When I read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, I thought I had a good low risk approach for writing about the subject, but compiling thoughts cohesively together and putting them into words has more of a challenge than I expected, but here’s a stab at it.
The prospect of maximizing so much diversity is undeniably an extremely complicated challenge. Accordingly, those that can overcome it will reap the benefits and those that don’t will probably ...read more
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I went to my first book club meeting yesterday evening, and I have to admit that it’s a nice complement to day-to-day life for anyone who hasn’t tried it. This wasn’t always the case. My original reason for agreeing to the book club was that I wanted to support a friend’s initiative, my participation would make me finish a book more quickly and I was curious what it would be like. None of these reasons are great, so it felt really uncomfortable when the first book club meeting started and I felt like I had voluntarily returned to high school. As I heard the others reflect on Obama’s ...read more
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With the new year, I wanted to refresh my “About” section, and now seemed like a great moment in time to do it. In addition, at the beginning of this month, I am embarking onto a semi-new adventure of doing a lot more media work than I have in the past, and I can’t wait!
In my last “About” section, I started off with a quote from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” At the beginning of 2010, that whole idea was sounding so stale, and a part of my life was ...read more
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One area of inspiration that I’ve thought about for Global Brain Candy was past written work, particularly on economic development and immigration, and reigniting some of my commitment to exploring my interests in those areas. However, I recently saw a fellow co-author Stephanie Sewell King at a New Year’s brunch. While at Columbia, Stephanie and I were part of a team that penned “Corporate Social Responsibility: An Emerging Form of Risk Management in Europe,” for a Columbia University publication. Many of the key concepts in the piece really point to sustainable business practices, but I don’t think that was a buzz work when we wrote the piece. Or at ...read more
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 After having lived in New York for so many years, I consciously stay away from Times Square during this week of the year since the crowds are just too much to handle. Watching everything on TV is great! But when I got the unique opportunity to see the Times Square Ball LIVE, the reluctance to deal with crowds in freezing weather disappeared. What an amazing New Year’s treat! The first major surprise was that it was much smaller than I imagined with only a diameter of 12 feet. It’s so tiny compared to ...read more
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This week, we took a look at the recession and charitable giving. Truth be told, this was more of a joint effort with one of the editors even though I’m on the byline. Check it out, I think the findings will probably surprise you or at least make you think a little differently about philanthropy in general.
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I was so really busy the last week and a half but am back in gear and hopefully ramping up again. For this week, we took a look at what the latest jobs report really means in terms of the recession’s end. It sounded like good news on the surface, but it’s a diamond in the rough against the backdrop of other economic indicators. It’s also a confirmation of past projections for a “jobless recovery.”
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Since I’m posting this right before Thanksgiving, I wanted to take this opportunity to send a big thanks to my blog visitors for taking time to stop by. Launching and maintaing a blog can be a real time suck, but I think that the upside more than compensates in the sense that it’s given me the opportunity to explore other interests outside of work and connect with others who have mutual interests or are just curious about similar things.
Given that this blog’s been up for a little more than six months, I thought I’d post some of the most popular ones (not just from the last week thanks to Google ...read more
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Earlier this week, I wrote about how the recession has ended in the art world when an Andy Warhol silkscreen sold for $43.76 million at a Sotheby’s auction, more than four times the estimate. Even though there was an uptick, I pointed out how a lot of art was left unsold, sales volume was still much lower than past years and millions are still struggling with daily expenses much less think about art buying.
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