311 sorterade idéer
africa
ambitions
art
beauty
book
business
change
communication
create
culture
death
economy
EU
europe
evil
fear
free
freedom
history
human
ideas
identity
innovation
journalism
Kapuscinski
knowledge
language
life
literature
live
man
mankind
media
migration
mind
motivation
numbers
people
planning
power
reality
risk
society
spain
story
strategy
success
sweden
talent
technology
time
travel
trends
understanding
usa
war
work
workplace
world
writing“Talent, Proust says. I would say luck, and much labour.”
V.S. Naipaul, Nobelföreläsning 10 december 2001
Flexible/adaptive: Open to serendipity and change; Able to adjust game plan as needed; Entertains multiple ideas & solutions.
Persevering: Hardworking and persistent; Champions new ideas with tenacity; Committed to followthrough and bottom-line results.
Formally articulate: Communicates ideas effectively; Translates abstract concepts into meaningful language; Creates prototypes with ease.
Resilient: Bounces back from disappointment; Learns quickly from feedback; Willing to “try, try again.”
Situationally collaborative: Balances rugged individualism with political savvy; Open to coaching and input; Rallies support as needed.
Balances intuition and analysis: Alternates between divergent and convergent thinking; Entertains hunches before analyzing them; Trusts their gut, uses their head.
Committed to learning: Continually seeks knowledge; Synthesizes new input quickly; Balances info gathering and action.
Tolerates ambiguity: Comfortable with chaos; Able to entertain paradox; Doesn’t settle for the first “right idea.”
Recognizes Patterns: Perceptive and discriminating; Notices organizing principles & trends; Sees (and challenges) the Big Picture.
Reflective: Incubates on problems and challenges; Seeks out states of immersion; Ponders, muses and contemplates.
Makes new connections: Sees relationships between seemingly disconnected elements; Synthesizes new combinations; Distills odd ideas down to their underlying principles.
Self-accepting: Withholds compulsive criticism of their own ideas; Understands “perfection is the enemy of the good.”
Unattached to looking good in the eyes of others.
Peripatetic: Changes work environments as needed; Wanders, walks or travels to inspire fresh thinking; Given to movement and interaction.
Playful & humorous: Appreciates incongruities and surprise; Able to appear foolish and child-like; Laughs easily and often.
Takes risks: Goes beyond their comfort zone; Experimental and nonconforming; Courageously willing to “fail” (but learns from feedback).
Entertains the fantastic: Conjures outrageous scenarios; Sees possibilities within the seemingly impossible; Honors dreams and daydreams.
Self-motivated: Responds to deep inner needs; Proactively initiates new projects; Intrinsically rewarded for efforts.
Visionary: Highly imaginative; Maintains a future orientation; Thinks in mental pictures.
Curious: Actively explores their environment; Investigates new possibilities; Honors their sense of awe and wonder.
Challenges status quo: Dissatisfied with current reality; Questions authority and routine; Confronts assumptions.
Report from CGD: 51% of Kenya’s doctors are abroad. 81% of Liberia’s nurses have left.
How many doctors and nurses have left Africa? Which countries did they leave? Where have they settled? To answer these questions, CGD’s Michael Clemens and Gunilla Pettersson have compiled a dataset of the cumulative bilateral net flows of African-born physicians and nurses to the nine most important destination countries.
Swamp Cottage
In a speech at Harvard University in 1943 Winston Churchill observed that “the empires of the future will be empires of the mind.” He might have added that the battles of the future will be battles for talent. To be sure, the old battles for natural resources are still with us. But they are being supplemented by new ones for talent—not just among companies (which are competing for “human resources”) but also among countries (which fret about the “balance of brains” as well as the “balance of power”).
Economist.com