RISK AND REWARD? TELLING IT AS IT (SEEMS TO BE) ~ It Just Ain't That Great

FREE STYLE INTERVIEWING: THE DILEMMA SUBJOINED

I have interviewed for an executive assistant and insitutional banking Middle Office role recently. I must say I have been impressed by the recruiters. They were candid and sympathetic. So why is it so hard out there to be rewarded for taking risks?

AMERICAN 'DREAMTIME': WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DREAM?

HBR published another Niall Ferguson column in its latest edition. And Ferguson lamented the state of the 'land of the free'. According to Ferguson, the only stakeholders celebrating the legal system "are the lawyers". As I have written previously, law practioners' cultural departure from 'strict and complete legalism' has presaged a deterioration in the overall standard of governance. (Some) lawyers are paid too much, for work that is of little real value: Government's institutional footprint has grown, without concomitant expansion in the quality of impartial service provision. What happpened to 'by the people, for the people'????

THE LUMBERING BEHEMOTH?

This link just about says it all ~ candidates are told to brand themselves, to think big and reach out. But is risk rewarded? Really? REALLLY!??? http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130708140616-12571855-get-fired?trk=tod-home-art-large_0 It seems to me candour must be the first and last line of defence when it comes to job creation and sructural change. Innovation cannot occur in a vacuum; especially when our societies still live in a bubble of our own making. Google has taken the lead by critiquing its hiring practices and admitting to the 'seat-of-their-pants' dillemma in hiring and empowering great people to do great things. As Scott C, founding CEO at Startup America quipped, 'Could one person at Kodak have changed the company's fate? Stay nimble in your mindset, and imagine that your actions will make or break the company's chances of staying afloat'. Surely, though, Winning! as a society and a global community should mean more than slumbering survival.. IF THE ENGINE IS SPUTTERING, CAN'T WE RESTART THE ENGINE, OR, EVEN, GET A NEW ENGINE?