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Heather E. McGowan

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21st Century Career Success Essential Skills

21st Century career success essential skills

  • August 12, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

The business-led metro Kansas City regional prosperity organization KC Rising recently published a terrific report defining what are the essential skills all students need for career success. Their definition: Communication – The ability to adapt within various channels, to connect…

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A Liberal Arts Degree Leads To A Good-paying Career

A liberal arts degree leads to a good-paying career

  • October 16, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

We are constantly besieged with messaging that a liberal arts degree is useless. Maybe even worse than useless: a path to being a pauper or something close. Stuck in low-paying work that leaves you unable to pay off the loans…

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Employers Increasingly Prefer Generalists Over Specialists

Employers increasingly prefer generalists over specialists

  • July 31, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

All of a sudden there is lots being written about the trend of employers hiring generalists more than specialists. What is so disturbing is the disconnect between this reality and way too many policymakers pushing our education and training providers…

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What We  Mean By Career Rock Climbers

What we mean by career rock climbers

  • March 1, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

Governor Whitmer's first State of the State address marks a major turning point in the state's approach to improving the well being of Michiganders. One now public investment driven. After nearly three decades of disinvesting in education and infrastructure in…

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Preparing For A Career Not A First Job

Preparing for a career not a first job

  • March 30, 2018
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Featured Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

This is a rerun of a 2013 post. I thought it worth rerunning because it describes well how one puts together a successful forty-year career in an economy where the nature of work is constantly changing. It is about a…

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Google, Snyder And McGowan On Essential Skills

Google, Snyder and McGowan on essential skills

  • March 9, 2018
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

In her Linkedin column Heather E. McGowan calls for a transformation of the mission of education. From one that prepares people for a job to one that prepares people for continuous job loss. Largely because of machines increasingly doing the…

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Needed For All: Education For Losing Job(s)

Needed for all: education for losing job(s)

  • February 9, 2018
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

Must-read Linkedin column by Heather E. McGowan entitled Preparing Students to Lose Their Job. It is the best description I have read on the need to change the mission of education from one that prepares people for a job to one that…

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