#its from when i was staffing an anime con

[dullahandyke]

Thought I was being clever and brought exactly 2 euro in my dumbshit pocket change to the shop for One (1) cup noodle so I wouldnt be tempted to get anything else only to find that in the last 24 hours, they have suffered a price hike of 25c. God hates me and wants me to eat better

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Movie Review | Porky's (Clark, 1981)

If there's one thing I took away from Porky's, it's the importance of casting. This falls roughly into the wave of fratboy/horndog comedies from the late '70s to the early '80s, and compares unfavourably to some of the better known movies of that wave. You can look at the arguable progenitor of that movement, Animal House, and see how that movie's anarchic qualities were lent a certain charge by the animal impact of John Belushi and the low rent charms of Tim Matheson. You can also look at a movie much closer to this one's mold, Revenge of the Nerds, and note not just the dorky likability of Anthony Edwards and Robert Carradine as the lead nerds, but also the warmth brought by supporting players like Larry B. Scott and Brian Tochi even when they're saddled with blatant stereotypes. The main cast here is a bunch of nondescript young white dudes with only the most superficial characteristics to distinguish them (one is tall, one is Jewish, etc).

If you want distinct presences, you'll have to look to the periphery. As a Canadian production, this earns its Canuck credentials by casting Art Hindle as a cop who happens to be the older brother of one of the boys and is perhaps a bit too sympathetic to their exploits, and Doug McGrath as a gym coach. I remember McGrath as the cop who got gently pranked on by Margot Kidder in Black Christmas, and here he sort of pays it forward by not sufficiently cluing in younger coach Boyd Gaines into the unusual behaviour of female coach Kim Cattrall. (Yes, there are a lot of coaches in this movie. I mostly tuned out gym class but I'll concede that this school had a better staffed phys. ed. department than the one I went to.) Cattrall does her best to add some personality to her limited role, but like many of the female characters, she's essentially a throwaway gag, presented to us for a laugh and then scuttled off to the side before she develops any agency. Only Kaki Hunter, as one of the boys' girlfriends, seems to behave like a real person.

In this sense, the movie is probably true to the worldviews of the hormonally-overcharged sex obsessed protagonists, who are concerned almost entirely with getting laid and see women as a means to an end. And this isn't out of line with the genre, but this is another area where the movie compares unfavourably with Animal House. In that movie, there's something completely base about the protagonists, with the ugliness of their actions and thoughts operating almost entirely as transgression. Here, you're supposed to root for the heroes in their reliably foiled efforts to get laid. Porky's wants you to like its characters. Animal House doesn't care if you do.

There is also a fair bit of racist language thrown around in the movie, largely but not entirely tied to a subplot about a Jewish character standing up to his bigoted bully, and the bully standing up to his ex-con father. On one hand, this subplot ties up a bit too neatly, with the Jewish character becoming friends with his bully after the confrontation with the father without any real reconciliation between them. It's perhaps a transparent excuse for the movie to indulge in this language for easy shock without really confronting its ugliness. But as a brown kid who went to a primarily white school, I got a fair amount of racist "humour" thrown my way, and I became friends with some of the people who did the throwing. These were not people who had hate in their heart, but stupid kids who didn't know better, so perhaps it was easier to look past some of the things they said, but I do think there's something to the movie's handling of this relationship and the way friendship can develop in such situations without an overt reckoning. If anything, what frustrated me about my experiences was the tacit approval of the faculty, who laughed these things off a bit too easily when they should have known better. So if anything, the way Hindle seems as comfortable as he does with the heroes' mischief bothered me the most about this movie. Apologies if I'm getting too personal here.

Maybe the most intriguing read of the movie is the way it might mirror Bob Clark's own life. Despite being an honorary Canadian, he grew up in Florida, where this movie is set. (His first movie, She-Man: A Story of Fixation was shot there, and gains a little something from the sweltering atmosphere. I'll give that movie a recommendation, as it's more sympathetic to its queer and queer-adjacent characters than I expected given the exploitation angle.) And judging by the results, he must have really hated it there, given the way movie almost suffocates us with the toxic good ol' boy atmosphere of the titular bar, or suspends us in the frustrations of its heroes as they repeatedly fail to get any action. This has a certain brownish look I associate with Canadian productions, but there's little of the coziness that sometimes comes with it. Everything here feels dingy, miserable. The movie is sporadically amusing, as Clark is a capable comedy director and knows how to structure a gag, but by the end of the movie, I felt a little depressed. As for how intentional that is, the jury's still out.

[traegorn]

There is an ongoing problem in the con running community, and it's the instinct to avoid any sort of public turbulence. Reactions to the Vic-pocalypse have driven this home, but it was this instinct that allowed a missing stair like him to stay for so long in the first place.

And I get it. Con staff's are scared to piss off people. Most don't have money for lawyers and legal fees if someone were to sue, so they don't speak up. But if your primary responsibility is keeping attendees safe, sweeping things under the rug is never helpful.

The first time I heard about Vic Mignogna was at Anime Milwaukee 2010. It wasn't anything remotely close to his worst accusations -- a friend felt uncomfortable with comments Mignogna made, he hugged another friend without her consent -- but combined with the rumors out there, we chose to quietly blacklist him from the con we all worked for (NoBrandCon).

It wasn't much, but it was what we could do.

But it's not just the sexual predators (of which there are a number still floating around the con scene), but other screw ups made by staffs. Sometimes its poor planning, sometimes its money mismanagement, sometimes it's something malicious -- I've seen all of these things happen in the twenty three years I've been staffing cons. And for most of them, things always get hidden away. There are show promoters who would run a failed event, then quietly move towns and start a new one under a different name... attendees none the wiser.

Which is why we started reporting on stuff at Nerd & Tie. We wanted a record of this stuff to be at least semipermanent beyond the ephemeral social media posts that get lost to time. People and cons need to be held accountable. Have we been perfect? No. Have we published some "hot takes" which were kinda terrible? Yes. But we've strived to be accurate, and overall I think our record is pretty good.

(That said, please contribute to our legal fund - http://gofund.me/nerdandtie )

But the reaction from some of the con staffers out there has been... not great? I mean, yeah -- I don't expect people we've written negative pieces about to be big fans of mine. But even some con staffers in the world at large who I've never written about have taken shots at me. One guy who works for Anime Milwaukee, COAF, Naka-kon, and Kumoricon has literally called me a "blight" on the community.

He's the reason I'm skipping AMKE this year.

And it's ridiculous. Like a different guy who runs a bunch of cons has complained that I'm just dragging up "drama" and it's just nonsense. I'm writing down the stuff hardly anyone was willing to do so for years. There are others out there with me (like File770 has been doing this forever), but we're all small operations. This isn't "drama," this the community we're stewards of.

Guys like Mr. "Blight" think that we're being over nitpicky reporting on stuff like Tokyo in Tulsa, but when a con severely mismanages a situation, it should be remembered. People should know that Person A did a bad thing that time. It's important.

Screw ups need to be documented and remembered. And it's not to say people should never forgive cons for their mistakes, but that forgiveness should be an INFORMED forgiveness. It's the only chance we have at getting better.

[squeemcsquee]

PeoriaCon 2019

So, last Saturday (3/2/19) was the first-ever PeoriaCon. Naturally, since it was in my hometown, I was bound and determined to attend. Thankfully, the work schedule allowed it (and trust me, that was no easy feat!)

I knew things were going to be fun when we saw that the local Ghostbusters team were on site.

To get in, you paid $10 and got a hand stamp.

Mine actually survived the day - maybe because it was on my wrist? But @someoldmemory had hers wear off a couple of times.

Once you paid, you entered the con proper. It was held at the Exposition Gardens location in Peoria, IL. It’s where the county fair gets held every year, so locals know the location pretty well. They used the main event building, and there were some pros and cons involved with that.

First, the pros:

As you can see from the photos, there was plenty of space to move around in the room. Vendors could have decently-sized booths, and it was very hard to overlook anything, as there was space to wander.

Second, the location comes with a snack bar (no, I didn’t take a photo of that). So for those who opted not to leave, there was a food source on-hand. 

Third, though this was also a drawback: There was a PA system available to broadcast any announcements.

Fourth, there was plenty of parking. I mean, this is an event ground that hosts the fair every year - of course they’re gonna have parking space available!

As to the cons of the venue...

Noise. The acoustics in the building were definitely not optimal for this kind of event. I tried to check out the panel area, but because it was only blocked off from the rest of the room by a tent, it was hard to hear anything.

Actually, the noise was really my only complaint for the venue. The PA announcements were lost in the general hubbub, it was a strain to hear panelists, and both @lechevaliermalfet and I got overwhelmed by the sheer impact of that much sound at different points during the day.

Location aside, this con was a short one, running just 7 hours. But it had the usual con stuff!

There was gaming (video and tabletop, though I didn’t get a photo of tabletop)

There were panels:

Vendors and goodies galore:

Celebrity guests! Guest 1: Larry Kenney - aka the voice of Lion-O. Or, if you (like me) never watched Thundercats, the voice of Count Chocula! 

Guest 2: Bob Doucette, an animator who has worked on Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, and Freakazoid.

Cosplay Contest! Which I entered - the photo below was taken for the preliminary round. Image is courtesy of local photographer Alpha Studios. I was cosplaying as the Glow Cloud from Welcome to Night Vale.

Honestly? For a first year event, it was pretty fun. The planners apparently have a lot of con running/staffing experience among them, which probably helped quite a bit. The one drawback was the noise, but that doesn’t mean the venue can’t work - maybe they just need to look at the other buildings on the site or perhaps find a way to better buffer the noise from the cosplay and panel areas.  

I walked away with some cool swag (new book, an autograph, some prints, and a sculpture) and some great memories from my first time entering a cosplay contest (which may end up being its own short post). I got to spend a day with several of my friends, for fairly cheap. And @lechevaliermalfet and I were there for roughly 6 of the 7 hours of the con’s length. When we left, I filled out a survey on the experience.

 I hope it comes back.

[teamplushr13]

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Recruiting and Managing Creative Talent to Inspire Innovation

 Technology and organizational strategies today are bound together in a world striving for performance improvement. It’s hard to dispute that every company has, in a sense, become a technology company. The digital world drives the hr staffing solutions in bangalore  material world to a tremendous extent these days. It’s a trend that shows no  signs of slowing.

 As economist Thomas Pinketty predicts in his groundbreaking work Capital in the Twenty-First Century, much of the economic growth we can expect to see between this year and 2025 will flow from advances in computing, artificial intelligence, data and robotics. Despite the positive impacts these developments could make, financially and functionally, there remain reasonable skeptics who have concerns about the income inequality and vocational losses this sort of  mechanized society might create. They offer dire scenarios in which robots replace all human labor -- the only monetary gains going to those who own, manufacture or control the machines.

 MIT Professor Zeynep Ton explains in The Good Jobs Strategy that these examples fail to paint a broader, more realistic picture. Even the most powerful systems require human input and judgment; a purely technological approach to work and civilization would eventually collapse. The relevance and importance of the human element can’t be ignored. Artificial intelligence (AI) can’t exist and grow without  the context of the human experience to inform it. Cognitive scientists  hr staffing solutions in bangalore refer to this discrepancy as the availability bias: people tend to place greater emphasis on information that’s easy to come by, such as data on a spreadsheet, rather than intangibles like the realities involved in the everyday interactions and operations of a business.

 So as we scramble to keep pace with technology and narrow our educational focus on STEM skills, we’re neglecting the very important role that creativity plays in the process.

 Creativity -- The Ghost in the Machine

 It’s easy to succumb to the notion that scientists are stuffy, smock-wearing, bespectacled people who are obsessed with numbers and formulas. Yet without a creative impulse, imagination, vision and an understanding of society, it’s hard to believe that any real scientific accomplishments would have arisen. Science hr staffing solutions in bangalore requires creativity for continued innovation. No invention was envisioned without curiosity and ambition: the dreamer gazing at the stars in wonder, the biologist fighting to cure a terrible disease, the electrical engineer helping to overcome obstacles in the way of communications, and other pioneers motivated by a need to improve our quality of life.

 This sentiment is articulately echoed by astrophysicists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Adam Frank. Both men of science not only acknowledge the necessity of the humanities, they embrace liberal arts as a crucial backbone to scientific achievement. In a recent piece for NPR, Frank advocated for the value of the arts in academia: “In spite of  being a scientist, I strongly believe an education that fails to place a heavy emphasis on the humanities is a missed opportunity. Without a base in humanities, both the students -- and the democratic society these students must enter as informed citizens -- are denied a full view of the heritage and critical habits of mind that mae civilization worth the effort.”

 Frank provides a solid reason for his conclusion: “The old barriers between the humanities and technology are falling. Historians now use big-data techniques to ask their human-centered  questions. Engineers use the same methods -- but with an emphasis on human interfaces -- to answer their own technology-oriented questions.”

 In the future, computers will probably assume a greater share of the work duties currently tasked to human talent, including programming and data analysis. We can’t presume that automation won’t replace or commoditize certain skill sets. Realistically, however, there’s a limit to what machines will be able to do. As Rally Health’s Tom Perrault observes in a recent Harvard Business Review article, “What can’t be replaced in any organization imaginable in the future is precisely what seems overlooked today: liberal arts skills, such as creativity, empathy, listening, and vision. These skills, not digital or technological ones, will hold the keys to a company’s future success. And yet companies aren’t hiring for them. This is a problem for today’s digital companies, and it’s only going to get worse.”

 Technology and Creativity Play Well Together

 Creative talent enjoy taking risks. They see these gambles as necessary systems of trial and error that lead to true innovation. Just like the world’s most renowned scientists, creative talent  operate empirically. Missteps and failures don’t deter them -- they instruct them.

 Not only do creative professionals take risks, they refuse to quit in the face of shortcomings, defects or even rebuke from colleagues, managers or others in their communities. They are inherently optimistic and see risks as opportunities. Henry Ford’s first vehicle, a motorized four-wheeled bike of sorts, failed. Miserably. Instead of throwing in the towel, he learned from the mistake and went on to hr staffing solutions in bangalore pioneer the Model T. While working for the Kansas City Star, Walt Disney was told by his editor that he lacked imagination and marketable ideas. Obviously, that harsh critique did little to stifle Mr. Disney’s formidable future achievements -- all symbols of imagination and clever marketing.

 Of course, the interesting corollary to these examples is how both creative geniuses promoted technology, instead of working against it. Ford radically shifted methods of transit and work. He absolutely threatened the horse-and-buggy industry, yet his company created countless more jobs around the world. Ford also renovated the nature of labor with assembly line processes that delivered inexpensive goods to consumers while supporting high wages for workers.

 Walt Disney is a grandfather of realistic audio animatronics. You can’t visit a Disney attraction and not marvel at the robotic characters at the heart of the rides. Yet, the magic of a Disney theme park isn’t all technology -- it’s the exceptional customer service and interaction provided by live talent. The same rings true for Disney and Pixar films. The leaps and bounds in computer animation technology never surpass the humanity of the stories, which comes from writers, artists and voice actors.

 Hiring Creative Talent

 Given the current employment situation, the fierce competition to secure skilled talent makes perfect sense. Yet the creative, intrapreneurial mavericks should not be omitted in the search. Creative workers can be the best hires for companies that are truly in motion, tolerant of change, serious about stirring the pot to innovate, and creating new environments that require a degree of risk and uncertainty. The creativity, drive and exploratory nature of these individuals help businesses discover and capitalize on new opportunities, break free from outdated and ineffective models, pioneer unique solutions, and avoid stagnation. They have the potential to be prized assets for a growing or rebranding company.

 Sourcing creative talent is itself a creative process. Elite staffing professionals excel at matching the right talent to the right business culture, often deploying unconventional recruiting  and screening processes. This is the job of staffing professionals -- one they consistently perform and refine. The best way hiring organizations, MSPs and their staffing suppliers can achieve client goals together is to focus on fit.

 MSPs, when tasked with managing a program concentrated on change and innovation, should spend a greater amount of time during discovery and voice of the customer meetings to get a clear picture of the client’s existing culture, its ability to loosen structures and policies, and its comfort level with creative talent who may operate outside traditional team structures or approval processes.

MSPs and their staffing partners must spend extra time communicating about the realistic nature of the client’s culture and flexibility.

Staffing professionals, combining this information with their expertise in sourcing creative talent, can more easily assess the best fits between hiring managers and maverick innovators.

The MSP, after coordinating with its staffing partners on submitted candidates, must also be willing to champion these selections to hiring managers, making cases for non-traditional yet innovative talent whose pros outweigh perceived cons.

If there’s a theme for the direction of business in this century, it’s punctuated by a recurring buzzword: innovation. In its assessment of 2014 business trends, Forbes discussed  how the lack of cultural change has suffocated growth. The old ways of doing things were discounted as “roadblocks to process improvements,” with “true breakthrough thinking” and recruiting “more progressive candidates” as the remedies.

 Then, toward the end of the piece, Forbes put all its cards on the table and exposed the challenges openly. “Some companies are indulging in new processes for creative innovation, birthing some big ideas that could open new markets,” the magazine declared. “Many CEOs openly extol innovation… Yet, very hr staffing solutions in bangalore few really embrace it, acting on the most relevant ideas to truly advance their company. Change is nerve-wracking, but promising new ideas, tested in advance, can work wonders for almost any business.”

 Machines and data can produce some wonderful things. Coming up with the next big idea that will lead to new iterations of these technologies -- that's best left to the dreamers, the philosophers, the artists and the creative minds behind the science.

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[epchapman89]

Where to Drink Coffee in Seoul’s Hongdae Neighborhood

Located northwest of the Han River, the area around Hongik University (known by the metonym of Hongdae) in Seoul’s Mapo district is home not only to the most renowned arts school in South Korea, but an ever-vibrant and youthful nightlife. Some folks may recognize Hongdae as the backdrop for the famous Korean drama The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the real-life neighborhood is home to a bustling cafe scene. Hongdae’s reputation precedes itself, and depending on the time of your visit, the energy on the streets can be relaxed or animated.

Wandering around during the daytime in the Mapo district on a recent visit to Seoul, I found five distinct cafes providing a range of sensory experiences, from the coffee to the ambience. Whether you’re looking for a place to enjoy music while chatting with friends over an indulgent affogato or a soothing and meditative space to browse through magazines while sipping a mocha, you’d be hard-pressed not to find your next favorite cafe here. Enjoy a great cup of coffee among locals and tourists alike in one of Seoul’s most beloved destinations for all things indie, from arts and music to nightclubs and food.

Coalmine

Coalmine Coffee has a coziness that was especially welcome when I dropped by on a blustery cold December morning. Even walking into the cafe feels like going to see a friend; you go through a gate and a small courtyard to enter the warm and inviting space, cozily lit by glowing lamps strung on the pale, wood-paneled ceiling and scattered over the tables. I can imagine the benches and seating outside would be wonderful during the warmer months. However, it was a chilly winter day and I sipped my delicious espresso con panna indoors.

Coalmine serves single origins or blends in their espresso drinks, single-origin brewed coffee, cold brew, teas, and cakes (including a rotating monthly cake). I appreciated being able to choose between two blends for my espresso con panna: option A was a medium light roast with “floral, fruit, and silky textured” notes, while option B was medium dark with “classic, nutty, and dark chocolate” flavors. The counter was staffed by a friendly but unobtrusive barista who obligingly made recommendations when requested. As demonstrated by the different customers in the cafe, Coalmine is an equally great space for quietly working, reading a book, or mingling with friends.

Coalmine Coffee is located at 43, Jandari-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul. Follow them on Facebook and Instagram.

Conquer Coffee Lab

Although Conquer Coffee Lab just opened in July, Lee Chang Mi (one half of the married duo who owns the cafe) has worked in the coffee business since 2004. Conquer serves espresso drinks, hand drip coffees, teas, and desserts. Lee’s passion for coffee was evident when I chatted with her over the counter as she explained the different coffee options, with selections from South America (Brazil, Colombia, and Guatemala) and Africa (Ethiopia and Kenya).

When asked about the coffee tastes of Conquer’s clientele, Lee said that most of her Korean customers prefer dark roasts, while she herself is a fan of the third wave. On Lee’s recommendation, I ordered a cup of the Ethiopia Kochere coffee that was fresh and lightly acidic. Lee is keen to expand her coffee expertise and share the knowledge with customers. It should be interesting to see how Conquer develops as the owners become more established in the space.

Conquer Coffee Lab is located at 1F 28, Dongmak-ro 8-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul.

Felt

I nearly walked past Felt and had to double check I was in the right location before I realized the sparely appointed storefront was the cafe I was searching. Minimally decorated with records and a stereo system, Felt has the feel of a beloved music store. The seating is made up of long benches pushed against the floor-to-ceiling windows instead of traditional tables and chairs. The drink menu is as carefully edited as the space, offering six drink choices plus an affogato option, and is priced fairly (ranging from ₩4,000 to ₩6,000, roughly $3.75 to $6). The barista mentioned that Felt roasts its own beans, and bags of coffee ranging from ₩10,000 to ₩16,000 ($10 to $15) from Brazil, Costa Rica, and El Salvador are available for purchase. During my visit, I enjoyed sipping a well-balanced latte while leaning against the windows, relaxing, and soaking up the bright sunshine beaming through the glass.

Felt Coffee is located at 2-47, Changjeon-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Silhouette Coffee

While it’s been merely six months since Silhouette Coffee opened its doors, the cafe already has a striking presence. After being greeted at the door by owner Choi Gil Soo’s adorable dog, I asked about the cafe name. Pointing to the full-length white curtains enveloping the large windows, Choi explains how he was inspired by the beauty of the view of the silhouettes of people and things against those curtains from the outside in. Choi roasts his beans in-house, and the menu is varied, from standard espresso drinks, brewed coffee (hand drip, siphon, or French press), flavored milks, juices, teas, and even beers from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and the US. The doppio I ordered immediately flooded my veins with caffeine, but I could also imagine lingering longer over any of the other drinks while lounging on one of the cushioned seats.

Silhouette Coffee is located at 33-5, Dongmak-ro 8-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul. Follow them on Instagram.

Zombie Coffee Roasters

As an avowed coffee addict, I admit that I feel like a zombie before that first blessed cup of coffee. Situated on a scruffy side street, Zombie roasts its coffee on the premises and offers drinks and beans for sale (₩10,000 to ₩17,000). Like its coffee, Zombie’s interior is on the darker side with brick, black and white walls, and concrete floors. I glanced at the menu, which has espresso drinks, brewed coffee, fruit drinks, shakes, and teas, before opting for a deliciously creamy cappuccino. The other customers were a mix of folks bent over their laptops on the tables toward the back of the cafe, or people sitting on the stools around longer communal tables while chatting and relishing their coffee break. Since it was winter, the outdoor seating wasn’t available, but I can imagine that it would be pleasant to enjoy some Zombie outside during the warmer months.

Zombie Coffee Roasters is located at 6-5, Wausan-ro 19-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul. Follow them on Facebook and Instagram.

Michelle Hwang is a writer who splits her time between California, Paris, and Seoul.

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America will survive Trump, but it won't ever be the same

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President Donald Trump has not carried most of the promises from his campaign.

Even if he wants to achieve more of his agenda, he doesn't know how to do it.

His unethical administration is either staffed by people who were have since resigned or who try to contain him.

Trump has exacerbated the already divided United States by continuing to use class resentments, racism, and xenophobia.

  When I walked into the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this summer, I was struck by the glowering portrait hanging in the lobby. Donald Trump is president? It seems like something out of a dystopian film. But it's not science fiction; it's reality. Exactly a year ago, the voters of America, in their dubious wisdom, choose the reality TV star and real estate mogul as our 45th chief executive.

I, like most people — including probably Trump himself — was shocked by the outcome. Actually "shocked" is far too mild a word for what I felt. Poleaxed is more like it. I went to bed late on the evening of Nov. 8, 2016, in a daze, incredulous that my fellow citizens could elect a man so unqualified for the presidency and fearful of what he would do in office. The past year has been both better and worse than I anticipated.

It has been better in that Trump has not actually carried out most of his lunatic campaign rhetoric. He has not ordered the torture of terrorist suspects. He has not pulled out troops from Japan, South Korea, or Germany even though those countries have not increased their subsidies for U.S. protection. He has not launched a trade war with China even though our trade deficit with China has only grown over the past year. He has not tried seriously to get Mexico to pay for his border wall; even Congress is unlikely to fund it. He has not lifted sanctions on Russia or reached a grand bargain with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has not "locked up" Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. He has pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris climate accord, and he decertified the Iranian nuclear deal, but NAFTA is still standing — for now.

He has moved us closer to war with Iran and North Korea, but the bombs haven't started falling — yet.

Trump supporters can argue that he is more moderate in practice than his rhetoric would suggest. There's an element of truth in this, but the more compelling explanation for his failure to make good on his promises is threefold.

First, Trump doesn't really believe in much beyond his own awesomeness. He didn't run for office to get anything done; he ran to stoke his own ego and pad his own bank account by increasing his visibility. Thus he would say outrageous stuff on the campaign trail, contradict himself 30 seconds later, and immediately segue to some non sequitur. He didn't mean a lot of what he said — it was just something to rouse the rubes at rallies.

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Second, Trump has been utterly incompetent. Even if he wants to achieve more of his agenda, he doesn't know how to do it. As Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star puts it, he "talks like a strongman" but governs like a "weak man." Maybe tax reform will get done — maybe — but so far he hasn't signed a single major piece of legislation. Actually that's not quite true: Congress did pass a law strengthening sanctions against Russia over the administration's protests. Aside from a Supreme Court appointment, the only things Trump has succeeded in accomplishing are those he can do by executive order, thus doing on a far larger scale what he once criticized Obama for.

The third reason why Trump has gotten so little done is that he's surrounded by people who, by and large, don't share his xenophobic, isolationist, protectionist "America First" outlook. Most of those who did — Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka — have been forced out because they were incompetent crackpots. Lacking any interest in ideas, Trump has staffed his administration with people based largely on superficial criteria such as appearance. That helps to explain why most of his senior appointees, including Rex Tillerson, James Mattis, John Kelly, H.R. McMaster, and now Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman, look as if they are straight out of central casting. It also explains why former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton didn't snare a job: Trump was said not to like his mustache. As a result, Trump is surrounded by aides who view him as a screwball to be contained, not a sage to be followed.

So does that mean Trump's presidency has been just swell, as his fans claim? Not at all. In important respects, Trump has been worse than I imagined. If the past year has done anything, it has dispelled naive hopes that he would grow in office or become more presidential. He's the same old Trump that he was for the previous 70 years: ignorant, petulant, unethical, avaricious, conspiratorial, nasty, shameless, bullying, egomaniacal.

One of the salient features of his presidency has been its lack of ethics. His former campaign manager Paul Manafort has been indicted on charges of money laundering, and former national security advisor Michael Flynn is said to be on the verge of indictment for acting as an unregistered foreign agent. Many of the president's men, and even the president himself, had undisclosed business dealings with Russia, ranging from Trump's attempts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the campaign to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's continuing investment in a shipping firm closely tied to the Kremlin. Trump and his aides, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, have also consistently lied about their dealings with Russia. Former Trump foreign-policy advisor George Papadopoulos pled guilty to deceiving the FBI about his Kremlin ties; others may follow.

Russia aside, Trump uses his office to promote his own properties in violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution. He has refused to disclose his tax returns as every president has done more than 40 years. And while private-sector figures from Harvey Weinstein to Michael Oreskes are being fired for sexual harassment, the president remains in office despite credible accusations of misconduct from at least 16 women. Trump himself basically admitted to the allegations in his infamous "grab ‘em by the pussy" video, but now the White House press secretary shamefully labels his accusers as liars. The real liar, of course, is Trump himself. According to the Washington Post, during his first 263 days in office, he made 1,318 false or misleading claims. That's an average of five falsehoods a day.

Trump presides over what is easily the least ethical administration since Nixon's — and in all likelihood "Don the Con" will be judged by history to be a great deal worse than "Tricky Dick." The major difference between them? Nixon sought to subvert the rule of law in private. Trump does it out in the open for all to see.

It has become routine for the president to demand criminal investigations of his political opponents based on, so to speak, trumped-up charges (Donald Trump Jr. even accuses the Clintons of murder); to call for the broadcast licenses of critical media outlets to be revoked; to attack the special counsel investigating him; to impugn the FBI, the judiciary, and the Justice Department; and to suggest that his own attorney general should resign for not doing his political bidding. Granted, most of these threats have been empty ones — but not all. Trump did fire FBI Director James Comey in a blatant attempt to obstruct justice. Moreover, his very words — coming from the man charged with ensuring "that the laws be faithfully executed" — corrode trust in our legal system.

When Trump is not undermining the rule of law, he is demeaning the presidency and embarrassing the country. Trump uses Twitter to carry out unseemly vendettas against Gold Star parents, the mayors of London and San Juan, lawmakers from "Liddle" Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) to "Pocahontas" Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), journalists from those at the "failing New York Times" to "Crazy" Mika Brzezinski, and an endless array of other targets, many of them women and minorities. Trump's tweets are frequently vituperative and full of errors in spelling and grammar. They sound as if they are coming from a mental institution, not from the White House.

What most troubles me about Trump's presidency is the extent to which he is dividing Americans by race and ethnicity in service to his own political ambitions. Having won with overwhelming support among white, working-class voters, Trump notoriously hesitates to criticize white supremacists: He thought there were "very fine people" on both sides at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, and he has defended Confederate statues as part of "our heritage." When white killers go on a rampage, as they did recently in Las Vegas and Sutherland Springs, Texas, Trump labels it a tragedy about which there is little to be done beyond "thoughts and prayers."

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By contrast, he exploits every terrorist act committed by a Muslim, such as the Halloween attack in New York, labeling the perpetrators "animals" and calling for Draconian immigration restrictions. He has gone on an extended tirade against the African-American football players who kneel when the national anthem is played to protest police brutality. He has pardoned racist former Sheriff Joe Arpaio. And he has revoked the executive order that former President Barack Obama used to protect "Dreamers" — immigrants brought to America illegally as children — from deportation. Sadly, other Republican office-seekers, such as gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie in Virginia and Senate candidate Roy Moore in Alabama, have imitated Trump's noxious example by seeking to rally white voters with blatantly racial appeals. Gillespie failed, but that won't stop other Trump imitators from trying their luck.

Trump took a divided nation and instead of trying to heal those divisions, he has exacerbated them. A Boston Globe reporter who traveled to York County, Pennsylvania, an area that Trump won, found that "the class resentments, racism, and xenophobia that became flashpoints during the election have hardened, not healed."

And that's what Trump has done in just the year since he won the presidency. Imagine what the next three years — or, God forbid, the next seven years — will hold. The United States will survive Trump, but we won't be the same nation after him. The very fact that much of his misconduct is now so routine that it's hardly noteworthy indicates his success in, as former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) put it, "defining deviancy down." Far from making America "great again," he is reducing a once-great country to his tawdry level.

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WordReference English-Italiano Dictionary 2017: Principal Translations/Traduzioni principalihouse nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (residence building)casa nfTheir new house has three bathrooms.La loro nuova casa ha tre bagni.house, house [sth] in [sth], house [sb] in [sth] vtrtransitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat." (keep in a dwelling)alloggiare [qlcn/qlcs] in [qlcs], ospitare [qlcn/qlcs] in [qlcs] vtrdare alloggio a [qlcn/qlcs] in [qlcs] vtrThe university houses its students in very old buildings.L'universit alloggia i suoi studenti in edifici molto vecchi.house [sth] vtrtransitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat." (provide a storage place)contenere=>, ospitare=> vtrThis cabinet houses all our stationery.Questo armadio contiene tutta la nostra cancelleria.Traduzioni aggiuntivehouse nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (household)famiglia nfThe whole house was in mourning for Mr. Saunders.L'intera famiglia era in lutto per Mr. Saunders.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (building)edificio nmpalazzo nmThere's a florist between the coffee house and the schoolhouse. The legislature meets in the State House.C' un fiorista tra il bar e l'edificio della scuola.Il parlamento si riunisce nel Palazzo della Camera.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (hall)camera nfThe British Parliament meets in the House of Commons.Il parlamento inglese si riunisce nella camera dei comuni.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (family)dinastia nfcasato nmfamiglia nfThe House of Tudor ruled from 1485 to 1603.La dinastia dei Tudor regn dal 1485 al 1603.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (shelter)tana nfSome animals build their houses out of straw.Alcuni animali costruiscono la loro tana con la paglia.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (legislative body)(parlamento)camera nfMost parliaments have an upper and a lower house.La maggior parte dei parlamenti ha una http://painters.homeblue.com/pros/house-painters.aspx?hbc=13885943&hbg=1609467383 camera alta e una bassa.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (business firm)(editore)casa editrice nfditta, azienda nfHe works for a publishing house.Lavora per una casa editrice.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (university college)collegio, convitto nm(universit: edificio)struttura nfThe university is divided into several houses.L'universit suddivisa in molte strutture.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (members of a college)universit nfcollege nmThe two houses will be competing in the rowing regatta.I due college si sfideranno nella gara di canottaggio.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (gambling: casino)(casin)banco nmIt never pays to gamble because the house always wins.Non conviene mai giocare d'azzardo perch vince sempre il banco.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (audience)pubblico nfYou'll be playing to a full house tonight.Il teatro dove reciti stasera ha fatto il pieno di pubblico.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (convent or abbey)convento nmabbazia nfThere used to be lots of religious houses in this area.Una volta in questa zona c'erano molti conventi.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (church, mosque, synagogue)(religioni: chiesa, ecc.)casa nfSpeak quietly when you enter the house of God.Parla a bassa voce quando entri nella casa di Dio.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. UK (residential division in boarding school)edificio nm(edificio)struttura nfThe school had 6 houses.La scuola si componeva di sei edifici.house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. UK (team in British school)(scolastica)squadra nfI'm in Newton house at school; our colour is red.Faccio parte della squadra Newton a scuola. Il nostro colore il rosso.house [sb] vtrtransitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat." (provide housing)ospitare=>, accogliere=> vtrThe hall will house two hundred people.La sala ospiter duecento persone.house [sth] vtrtransitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat." (provide a workplace)ospitare=> vtressere sede di viThis building houses the workshop.Questo palazzo ospita il seminario.Questo palazzo sede del seminario.house [sth] vtrtransitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat." (secure sthg)alloggiare=>, riporre, mettere=>, chiudere=> vtrThe machine can be housed in its case for transit.Il macchinario pu essere riposto nel suo contenitore per il trasporto. WordReference English-Italiano Dictionary 2017: Compound Forms/Forme composteacid house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. ('80s, '90s dance music style)(stile musicale)acid house nmacid house party nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. ('80s and '90s dance event)concerto acid house nmadobe house (mattoni di paglia e fango)casa di adobe apartment house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. US (block of flats)condominio, caseggiato nmpalazzo di appartamenti nmpalazzina nfart-house, arthouse adjadjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house." (film: independent, creative)(film)d'essai aggd'autore aggbanking-house istituto bancario nmbatch house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (part of a glass factory)sala composizione vetro nfbawdy house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (law: brothel)bordello nmcasa chiusa nfbeach house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (seaside chalet)casa al mare nfShe invited me to spend a week at her beach house.Mi ha invitato a stare una settimana nella sua casa al mare.before the House la nuova proposta di legge e' all'esame della Camera big house grossa casa big house slang (prison)galera nfpenitenziario nmboarding house, boardinghouse nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (guesthouse: offers lodging)(piccolo albergo)pensione nfSome friends and I are staying in a boarding house this summer.(i)This sentence is not a translation of the original sentence. Abbiamo trovato una fantastica pensione a gestione familiare nel centro della citt.brick house casa con mattoni rossi a vista bridge house (nave)cassero nmbridge-house casa sul ponte nfbring down the house v exprverbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end." (make audience laugh or cheer)far divertire il pubblico vtrbrokerage house agenzia d'intermediazione bush house Bush House carriage house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. historical (rest stop for coaches)rimessa per carrozze nfThe carriage house is located near the stables.La rimessa per le carrozze situata vicino alla stalla.cat-house bordello nmchapter house sala capitolare charnel house ossario charnel house (vault for corpses)ossario nmchop-house ristorante di carne alla griglia clean house vtr + n (do housework)pulire casa vtrNow that spring has come, it's time to clean house.(i)This sentence is not a translation of the original sentence. Tutti i sabati mi tocca pulire casa.clean house vtr + n figurative (office: change personnel)(figurato)dare una ripulita vtrWhen staffing his office, the first thing a new president does is clean house.(i)This sentence is not a translation of the original sentence. Con la scusa della crisi, molte aziende hanno dato una ripulita del personale non gradito.clean house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (home: free of dirt)casa pulita nfTrevor tried to cheer me up by saying that women with clean houses are boring.Ha provato a tirarmi su dicendo che le donne con la casa pulita sono noiose.casa linda nfcoach house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. historical (rest stop for carriages)rimessa per carrozze nfcoach-house garage (per pullman) nmcouncil house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. UK (home: subsidized)casa popolare nfcounting house ufficio commerciale country house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (mansion)casa di campagna nfcrack house,

crackhouse nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (place where crack cocaine is sold)(droga)rivendita di crack nfcurry house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (Indian or Asian restaurant)ristorante di curry nmcustom house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (duty office at a port)ufficio doganale nm(luogo fisico)dogana nfcustoms house (edificio)dogana nfcustoms-house dogana nfdance house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. US (venue where dances are held)sala da ballo balera nfdeath house braccio della morte detached house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (house with no shared wall)casa indipendente, villetta nfMy elderly in-laws live in a detached house in Staines.I miei anziani suoceri abitano in una villetta a Staines.dog house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (kennel for a domestic canine)cuccia nfdoll house casa di bambola nfdream house casa da sogno nfduplex house (two-apartment building)casa per due famiglie nfbifamiliare nfdwelling house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (residence)dimora nfeating house trattoria nfengine house sala macchine farm-house fattoria nffashion house casa di moda fashion house atelier nmfield house casa di campagna frame house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (house with a timber frame)casa in legno, casa di legno nfFrame houses are common in the USA, where timber is cheap and plentiful.Le case in legno sono piuttosto comuni negli Stati Uniti, dove il legname non manca e costa poco.fraternity house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. US (male college students' residence)(college americano: residence per studenti)confraternita nfFraternity houses are a uniquely American phenomenon, I believe.Credo che le confraternite siano un fenomeno tipicamente americano.free house UK (type of tavern)pub nmNota: non legato a una particolare fabbrica di birrafreestanding house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (home: detached)casa indipendente nfvilletta indipendente nffront of house platea nffront of the house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (faade of residential building, house front)facciata nfThe front of the house mimicked a Neo-Gothic facade.La facciata della casa ricalcava lo stile Neogotico.front of the house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (rooms towards front of a house)davanti alla casa avvWhenever I come in the back door my dog runs from the front of the house to greet me.full house tutto esaurito full house (poker)full nmfun house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (attraction at fair or amusement park)(luna park: attrazioni percorse a piedi)casa degli specchi, labirinto degli specchi, casa dei divertimenti nffurnished house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (rental property with furniture)casa ammobiliata, casa gi ammobiliata nfI'm going to be there for three months so it will be worth it to rent a furnished house.Star l solo tre mesi, quindi preferirei affittare una casa ammobiliat.gambling house casa da gioco; bisca garden house casa estiva garrison house presidio nmgingerbread house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (edible confectionery structure)casa di pan di zenzero nfglass house serra nfglass-house di serra guard-house corpo di guardia guest house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (small hotel)(piccolo albergo)pensione nf(a gestione familiare)albergo nmMy parents stayed in a nearby guest house while visiting us for three weeks.guest house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (outbuilding for guests)appartamento per gli ospiti nmGrandma and Grandpa will stay in the guest house when they visit.halfway house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. informal (residence for ex-prisoners, etc.)casa di accoglienza per ex detenuti nfhash house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. US, slang (cheap restaurant)tavola calda, trattoria alla buona, trattoria senza pretese nfI ate dinner in a hash house near the station.Ho cenato in una tavola calda vicino alla stazione.ristorantino alla buona, ristorante a buon prezzo nmhaunted house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (house occupied by a ghost)casa stregata nfcasa infestata dagli spiriti, casa infestata dai fantasmi nfStrange noises came from the haunted house late at night.A notte fonda dalla casa stregata arrivano strani rumori.A notte fonda dalla casa infestata dagli spiriti arrivano strani rumori.haunted house nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (fairground attraction)(al luna park)casa delle streghe, casa dei fantasmi nfThe two girls came out of the haunted house shrieking and giggling.Le due ragazze uscirono dalla casa delle streghe gridando e ridendo.head house struttura in cui collocato il castelletto di una miniera hen-house pollaio nmhot-house serra riscaldata nf(figurato)terreno di coltura nmhouse agent nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. UK (estate agent)agente immobiliare nmNota: Estate agent is much more common in this context.house and grounds casa e terreno circostante house and lot casa e terreno circostante house arrest nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (imprisonment in one's home)arresti domiciliari nmplThe Burmese political dissident was under house arrest for many years.Il dissidente politico birmano fu tenuto agli arresti domiciliari per molti anni.house call (professional visit)visita a domicilio nfhouse cat nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (domestic feline, pet cat)felino domestico, gatto domestico nmA lion is a wild cat, not a house cat.house cleaner nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. ([sb] employed to do domestic cleaning)(donna)donna delle pulizie nfLa nonna da giovane faceva la donna delle pulizie, che era uno dei pochi lavori che le era permesso fare.house clearance nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (service: clearing possessions)(da casa, per vendita)rimozione dei mobili nfhouse counsel legale di un'impresa house counsel (law)giurista d'impresa nmhouse detective addetto alla sicurezza house detective US (security guard)addetto alla sicurezza nmhouse divided against itself casa divisa da lotte intestine house doctor nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (physician: lives on site)medico interno nmhouse dog nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc. (domestic canine, pet dog)cane domestico nmOne of the best house dogs, in the opinion of some people, is the poodle.house finch ciuffolotto messicano house flag bandiera della casa (cio di una societ) nfhouse flag (nautical)bandiera della casa nfhouse furnishings mobilio nm 'house' found in these entries

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Recruiting and Managing Creative Talent to Inspire Innovation

  Technology and organizational strategies today are bound together in a world striving for performance improvement. It’s hard to dispute that every company has, in a sense, become a technology company. The digital world drives the material world to a tremendous extent these days. It’s a trend that shows no  signs of slowing.

 As economist Thomas Pinketty predicts in his groundbreaking work Capital in the Twenty-First Century, much of the economic growth we can expect to see between this year and 2025 will flow from advances in computing, artificial intelligence, data and robotics. Despite the positive impacts these developments could make, financially and functionally, there remain reasonable skeptics who have concerns about the income inequality and vocational losses this sort of  mechanized top placements consultants in bangalore society might create. They offer dire scenarios in which robots replace all human labor -- the only monetary gains going to those who own, manufacture or control the machines.

 MIT Professor Zeynep Ton explains in The Good Jobs Strategy that these examples fail to paint a broader, more realistic picture. Even the most powerful systems require human input and judgment; a purely technological approach to work and civilization would eventually collapse. The relevance and importance of the human element can’t be ignored. Artificial intelligence (AI) can’t exist and grow without  the context of the human experience to inform it. Cognitive scientists refer to this discrepancy as the availability bias: people tend to place greater emphasis on information that’s easy to come by, such as data on a spreadsheet, rather than intangibles like the realities involved in the everyday interactions and operations of a business.

 So as we scramble to keep pace with technology and narrow our educational focus on STEM skills, we’re neglecting the very important role that creativity plays in the process.

 Creativity -- The Ghost in the Machine

 It’s easy to succumb to the notion that scientists are stuffy, smock-wearing, bespectacled people who are obsessed with numbers and formulas. Yet without a creative impulse, imagination, vision and an understanding of society, it’s hard to believe that any real scientific accomplishments would have arisen. Science requires creativity for continued innovation. No invention was envisioned without curiosity and ambition: the dreamer gazing at the stars in wonder, the biologist top placements consultants in bangalore fighting to cure a terrible disease, the electrical engineer helping to overcome obstacles in the way of communications, and other pioneers motivated by a need to improve our quality of life.

 This sentiment is articulately echoed by astrophysicists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Adam Frank. Both men of science not only acknowledge the necessity of the humanities, they embrace liberal arts as a crucial backbone to scientific achievement. In a recent piece for NPR, Frank advocated for the value of the arts in academia: “In spite of  being a scientist, I strongly believe an education that fails to place a heavy emphasis on the humanities is a missed opportunity. Without a base in humanities, both the students -- and the democratic society these students must enter as informed citizens -- are denied a full view of the heritage and critical habits of mind that mae civilization worth the effort.”

 Frank provides a solid reason for his conclusion: “The old barriers between the humanities and technology are falling. Historians now use big-data techniques to ask their human-centered  questions. Engineers use the same methods -- but with an emphasis on human interfaces -- to answer their own technology-oriented questions.”

 In the future, computers will probably assume a greater share of the work duties currently tasked to human talent, including programming and data analysis. We can’t presume that automation won’t replace or commoditize certain skill sets. Realistically, however, there’s a limit to what machines will be able to do. As Rally Health’s Tom Perrault observes in a recent Harvard Business Review article, “What can’t be replaced in any organization imaginable in the future is precisely what seems overlooked today: liberal arts skills, such as creativity, empathy, listening, and vision. These skills, not digital or technological ones, will hold the keys to a company’s future success. And yet companies aren’t hiring for them. This is a problem for today’s digital companies, and it’s only going to get worse.”

 Technology and Creativity Play Well Together

 Creative talent enjoy taking risks. They see these gambles as necessary systems of trial and error that lead to true innovation. Just like the world’s most renowned scientists, creative talent  operate empirically. Missteps and failures don’t deter them -- they instruct them.

 Not only do creative professionals take risks, they refuse to quit in the face of shortcomings, defects or even rebuke from colleagues, managers or others in their communities. They are inherently optimistic and see risks as opportunities. Henry Ford’s first vehicle, a motorized four-wheeled bike of sorts, failed. Miserably. Instead of throwing in the towel, he learned from the mistake and went on to pioneer the Model T. While working for the Kansas City Star, Walt Disney was told by his editor that he lacked imagination and marketable ideas. Obviously, that harsh critique did little to stifle Mr. Disney’s formidable future achievements -- all symbols of imagination and clever marketing.

 Of course, the interesting corollary to these examples is how both creative geniuses promoted technology, instead of working against it. Ford radically shifted methods of transit and work. He absolutely threatened the horse-and-buggy industry, yet his company created countless more jobs around the world. Ford also renovated the nature of labor with assembly line processes that delivered inexpensive goods to consumers while supporting high wages for workers.

 Walt Disney is a grandfather of realistic audio animatronics. You can’t visit a Disney attraction and not marvel at the robotic characters at the heart of the rides. Yet, the magic of a Disney theme park isn’t all technology -- it’s the exceptional customer service and interaction provided by live talent. The same rings true for Disney and Pixar films. The leaps and bounds in computer animation technology never surpass the humanity of the stories, which comes from writers, artists and voice actors.

 Hiring Creative Talent

 Given the current employment situation, the fierce competition to secure skilled talent makes perfect sense. Yet the creative, intrapreneurial mavericks should not be omitted in the search. Creative workers can be the best hires for companies that are truly in motion, tolerant of change, serious about stirring the pot to innovate, and creating new environments that require a degree of risk and uncertainty. The creativity, drive and exploratory nature of these individuals help businesses discover top placements consultants in bangalore and capitalize on new opportunities, break free from outdated and ineffective models, pioneer unique solutions, and avoid stagnation. They have the potential to be prized assets for a growing or rebranding company.

 Sourcing creative talent is itself a creative process. Elite staffing professionals excel at matching the right talent to the right business culture, often deploying unconventional recruiting  and screening processes. This is the job of staffing professionals -- one they consistently perform and refine. The best way hiring organizations, MSPs and their staffing suppliers can achieve client goals together is to focus on fit.

 MSPs, when tasked with managing a program concentrated on change and innovation, should spend a greater amount of time during discovery and voice of the customer meetings to get a clear picture of the client’s existing culture, its ability to loosen structures and policies, and its comfort level with creative talent who may operate outside traditional team structures or approval processes.

MSPs and their staffing partners must spend extra time communicating about the realistic nature of the client’s culture and flexibility.

Staffing professionals, combining this information with their expertise in sourcing creative talent, can more easily assess the best fits between hiring managers and maverick innovators.

The MSP, after coordinating with its staffing partners on submitted candidates, must also be willing to champion these selections to hiring managers, making cases for non-traditional yet innovative talent whose pros outweigh perceived cons.

If there’s a theme for the direction of business in this century, it’s punctuated by a recurring buzzword: innovation. In its assessment of 2014 business trends, Forbes discussed  how the lack of cultural change has suffocated growth. The old ways of doing things were discounted as “roadblocks to process improvements,” with “true breakthrough thinking” and recruiting “more progressive candidates” as the remedies.

 Then, toward the end of the piece, Forbes put all its cards on the table and exposed the challenges openly. “Some companies are indulging in new processes for creative innovation, birthing some big ideas that could open new markets,” the magazine declared. “Many CEOs openly extol innovation… Yet, very few really embrace it, acting on the most relevant ideas to truly advance their company. Change is nerve-wracking, but promising new ideas, tested in advance, can work wonders for almost any business.”

 Machines and data can produce some wonderful things. Coming up with the next big idea that will lead to new iterations of these technologies -- that's best left to the dreamers, the philosophers, the artists and the creative minds behind the science.

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  Technology and organizational strategies today are bound together in a world striving for performance improvement. It’s hard to dispute that every company has, in a sense, become a technology company. The digital world drives the material world to a tremendous extent these days. It’s a trend that shows no signs of slowing.

 As economist Thomas Pinketty predicts in his groundbreaking work Capital in the Twenty-First Century, much of the economic growth we can expect to see between this year and 2025 will flow from advances in computing, artificial intelligence, data and robotics. Despite the positive impacts these developments could make, financially and functionally, there remain reasonable skeptics who have concerns about the income inequality and vocational losses this sort of mechanized society might create. They offer dire scenarios in which robots replace all human labor -- the only monetary gains going to those who own, manufacture or control the machines.

 MIT Professor Zeynep Ton explains in The Good Jobs Strategy that these examples fail to paint a broader, more realistic picture. Even the most powerful systems require human input and judgment; a purely technological approach to work and civilization would eventually collapse. The relevance and importance of the human element can’t be ignored. Artificial intelligence (AI) can’t exist and grow without the context of the human experience to inform it. Cognitive scientists refer to this discrepancy as the availability bias: people tend to place greater emphasis on information that’s easy to come by, such as data on a spreadsheet, rather than intangibles like the realities involved in the everyday interactions and operations of a business.

 So as we scramble to keep pace with technology and narrow our educational focus on STEM skills, we’re neglecting the very important role that creativity plays in the process.

 Creativity -- The Ghost in the Machine

 It’s easy to succumb to the notion that scientists are stuffy, smock-wearing, bespectacled people who are obsessed with numbers and formulas. Yet without a creative impulse, imagination, vision and an understanding of society, it’s hard to believe that any real scientific accomplishments would have arisen. Science requires creativity for continued innovation. No invention was envisioned without curiosity and ambition: the dreamer gazing at the stars in wonder, the biologist fighting to cure a terrible disease, the electrical engineer helping to overcome obstacles in the way of communications, and other pioneers motivated by a need to improve our quality of life.

 This sentiment is articulately echoed by astrophysicists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Adam Frank. Both men of science not only acknowledge the necessity of the humanities, they embrace liberal arts as a crucial backbone to scientific achievement. In a recent piece for NPR, Frank advocated for the value of the arts in academia: “In spite of being a scientist, I strongly believe an education that fails to place a heavy emphasis on the humanities is a missed opportunity. Without a base in humanities, both the students -- and the democratic society these students must enter as informed citizens -- are denied a full view of the heritage and critical habits of mind that make civilization worth the effort.”

 Frank provides a solid reason for his conclusion: “The old barriers between the humanities and technology are falling. Historians now use big-data techniques to ask their human-centered questions. Engineers use the same methods -- but with an emphasis on human interfaces -- to answer their own technology-oriented questions.”

 In the future, computers will probably assume a greater share of the work duties currently tasked to human talent, including programming and data analysis. We can’t presume that automation won’t replace or commoditize certain skill sets. Realistically, however, there’s a limit to what machines will be able to do. As Rally Health’s Tom Perrault observes in a recent Harvard Business Review article, “What can’t be replaced in any organization imaginable in the future is precisely what seems overlooked today: liberal arts skills, such as creativity, empathy, listening, and vision. These skills, not digital or technological ones, will hold the keys to a company’s future success. And yet companies aren’t hiring for them. This is a problem for today’s digital companies, and it’s only going to get worse.”

 Technology and Creativity Play Well Together

 Creative talent enjoy taking risks. They see these gambles as necessary systems of trial and error that lead to true innovation. Just like the world’s most renowned scientists, creative talent operate empirically. Missteps and failures don’t deter them -- they instruct them.

 Not only do creative professionals take risks, they refuse to quit in the face of shortcomings, defects or even rebuke from colleagues, managers or others in their communities. They are inherently optimistic and see risks as opportunities. Henry Ford’s first vehicle, a motorized four-wheeled bike of sorts, failed. Miserably. Instead of throwing in the towel, he learned from the mistake and went on to pioneer the Model T. While working for the Kansas City Star, Walt Disney was told by his editor that he lacked imagination and marketable ideas. Obviously, that harsh critique did little to stifle Mr. Disney’s formidable future achievements -- all symbols of imagination and clever marketing.

 Of course, the interesting corollary to these examples is how both creative geniuses promoted technology, instead of working against it. Ford radically shifted methods of transit and work. He absolutely threatened the horse-and-buggy industry, yet his company created countless more jobs around the world. Ford also renovated the nature of labor with assembly line processes that delivered inexpensive goods to consumers while supporting high wages for workers.

 Walt Disney is a grandfather of realistic audio animatronics. You can’t visit a Disney attraction and not marvel at the robotic characters at the heart of the rides. Yet, the magic of a Disney theme park isn’t all technology -- it’s the exceptional customer service and interaction provided by live talent. The same rings true for Disney and Pixar films. The leaps and bounds in computer animation technology never surpass the humanity of the stories, which comes from writers, artists and voice actors.

 Hiring Creative Talent

 Given the current employment situation, the fierce competition to secure skilled talent makes perfect sense. Yet the creative, intrapreneurial mavericks should not be omitted in the search. Creative workers can be the best hires for companies that are truly in motion, tolerant of change, serious about stirring the pot to innovate, and creating new environments that require a degree of risk and uncertainty. The creativity, drive and exploratory nature of these individuals help businesses discover and capitalize on new opportunities, break free from outdated and ineffective models, pioneer unique solutions, and avoid stagnation. They have the potential to be prized assets for a growing or rebranding company.

 Sourcing creative talent is itself a creative process. Elite staffing professionals excel at matching the right talent to the right business culture, often deploying unconventional recruiting  and screening processes. This is the job of staffing professionals -- one they consistently perform and refine. The best way hiring organizations, MSPs and their staffing suppliers can achieve client goals together is to focus on fit.

 MSPs, when tasked with managing a program concentrated on change and innovation, should spend a greater amount of time during discovery and voice of the customer meetings to get a clear picture of the client’s existing culture, its ability to loosen structures and policies, and its comfort level with creative talent who may operate outside traditional team structures or approval processes.

MSPs and their staffing partners must spend extra time communicating about the realistic nature of the client’s culture and flexibility.

Staffing professionals, combining this information with their expertise in sourcing creative talent, can more easily assess the best fits between hiring managers and maverick innovators.

The MSP, after coordinating with its staffing partners on submitted candidates, must also be willing to champion these selections to hiring managers, making cases for non-traditional yet innovative talent whose pros outweigh perceived cons.

If there’s a theme for the direction of business in this century, it’s punctuated by a recurring buzzword: innovation. In its assessment of 2014 business trends, Forbes discussed  how the lack of cultural change has suffocated growth. The old ways of doing things were discounted as “roadblocks to process improvements,” with “true breakthrough thinking” and recruiting “more progressive candidates” as the remedies.

 Then, toward the end of the piece, Forbes put all its cards on the table and exposed the challenges openly. “Some companies are indulging in new processes for creative innovation, birthing some big ideas that could open new markets,” the magazine declared. “Many CEOs openly extol innovation… Yet, very few really embrace it, acting on the most relevant ideas to truly advance their company. Change is nerve-wracking, but promising new ideas, tested in advance, can work wonders for almost any business.”

 Machines and data can produce some wonderful things. Coming up with the next big idea that will lead to new iterations of these technologies -- that's best left to the dreamers, the philosophers, the artists and the creative minds behind the science.

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Recruiting and Managing Creative Talent to Inspire Innovation

  Technology and organizational strategies today are bound together in a world striving for performance improvement. It’s hard to dispute that every company has, in a sense, become a technology company. The digital world drives the material world to a tremendous extent these days. It’s a trend that shows no signs of slowing.

 As economist Thomas Pinketty predicts in his groundbreaking work Capital in the Twenty-First Century, much of the economic growth we can expect to see between this year and 2025 will flow from advances in computing, artificial intelligence, data and robotics. Despite the positive impacts these developments could make, financially and functionally, there remain reasonable skeptics who have concerns about the income inequality and vocational losses this sort of mechanized society might create. They offer dire scenarios in which robots replace all human labor -- the only monetary gains going to those who own, manufacture or control the machines.

 MIT Professor Zeynep Ton explains in The Good Jobs Strategy that these examples fail to paint a broader, more realistic picture. Even the most powerful systems require human input and judgment; a purely technological approach to work and civilization would eventually collapse. The relevance and importance of the human element can’t be ignored. Artificial intelligence (AI) can’t exist and grow without the context of the human experience to inform it. Cognitive scientists refer to this discrepancy as the availability bias: people tend to place greater emphasis on information that’s easy to come by, such as data on a spreadsheet, rather than intangibles like the realities involved in the everyday interactions and operations of a business.

 So as we scramble to keep pace with technology and narrow our educational focus on STEM skills, we’re neglecting the very important role that creativity plays in the process.

 Creativity -- The Ghost in the Machine

 It’s easy to succumb to the notion that scientists are stuffy, smock-wearing, bespectacled people who are obsessed with numbers and formulas. Yet without a creative impulse, imagination, vision and an understanding of society, it’s hard to believe that any real scientific accomplishments would have arisen. Science requires creativity for continued innovation. No invention was envisioned without curiosity and ambition: the dreamer gazing at the stars in wonder, the biologist fighting to cure a terrible disease, the electrical engineer helping to overcome obstacles in the way of communications, and other pioneers motivated by a need to improve our quality of life.

 This sentiment is articulately echoed by astrophysicists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Adam Frank. Both men of science not only acknowledge the necessity of the humanities, they embrace liberal arts as a crucial backbone to scientific achievement. In a recent piece for NPR, Frank advocated for the value of the arts in academia: “In spite of being a scientist, I strongly believe an education that fails to place a heavy emphasis on the humanities is a missed opportunity. Without a base in humanities, both the students -- and the democratic society these students must enter as informed citizens -- are denied a full view of the heritage and critical habits of mind that make civilization worth the effort.”

 Frank provides a solid reason for his conclusion: “The old barriers between the humanities and technology are falling. Historians now use big-data techniques to ask their human-centered questions. Engineers use the same methods -- but with an emphasis on human interfaces -- to answer their own technology-oriented questions.”

 In the future, computers will probably assume a greater share of the work duties currently tasked to human talent, including programming and data analysis. We can’t presume that automation won’t replace or commoditize certain skill sets. Realistically, however, there’s a limit to what machines will be able to do. As Rally Health’s Tom Perrault observes in a recent Harvard Business Review article, “What can’t be replaced in any organization imaginable in the future is precisely what seems overlooked today: liberal arts skills, such as creativity, empathy, listening, and vision. These skills, not digital or technological ones, will hold the keys to a company’s future success. And yet companies aren’t hiring for them. This is a problem for today’s digital companies, and it’s only going to get worse.”

 Technology and Creativity Play Well Together

 Creative talent enjoy taking risks. They see these gambles as necessary systems of trial and error that lead to true innovation. Just like the world’s most renowned scientists, creative talent operate empirically. Missteps and failures don’t deter them -- they instruct them.

 Not only do creative professionals take risks, they refuse to quit in the face of shortcomings, defects or even rebuke from colleagues, managers or others in their communities. They are inherently optimistic and see risks as opportunities. Henry Ford’s first vehicle, a motorized four-wheeled bike of sorts, failed. Miserably. Instead of throwing in the towel, he learned from the mistake and went on to pioneer the Model T. While working for the Kansas City Star, Walt Disney was told by his editor that he lacked imagination and marketable ideas. Obviously, that harsh critique did little to stifle Mr. Disney’s formidable future achievements -- all symbols of imagination and clever marketing.

 Of course, the interesting corollary to these examples is how both creative geniuses promoted technology, instead of working against it. Ford radically shifted methods of transit and work. He absolutely threatened the horse-and-buggy industry, yet his company created countless more jobs around the world. Ford also renovated the nature of labor with assembly line processes that delivered inexpensive goods to consumers while supporting high wages for workers.

 Walt Disney is a grandfather of realistic audio animatronics. You can’t visit a Disney attraction and not marvel at the robotic characters at the heart of the rides. Yet, the magic of a Disney theme park isn’t all technology -- it’s the exceptional customer service and interaction provided by live talent. The same rings true for Disney and Pixar films. The leaps and bounds in computer animation technology never surpass the humanity of the stories, which comes from writers, artists and voice actors.

 Hiring Creative Talent

 Given the current employment situation, the fierce competition to secure skilled talent makes perfect sense. Yet the creative, intrapreneurial mavericks should not be omitted in the search. Creative workers can be the best hires for companies that are truly in motion, tolerant of change, serious about stirring the pot to innovate, and creating new environments that require a degree of risk and uncertainty. The creativity, drive and exploratory nature of these individuals help businesses discover and capitalize on new opportunities, break free from outdated and ineffective models, pioneer unique solutions, and avoid stagnation. They have the potential to be prized assets for a growing or rebranding company.

 Sourcing creative talent is itself a creative process. Elite staffing professionals excel at matching the right talent to the right business culture, often deploying unconventional recruiting  and screening processes. This is the job of staffing professionals -- one they consistently perform and refine. The best way hiring organizations, MSPs and their staffing suppliers can achieve client goals together is to focus on fit.

 MSPs, when tasked with managing a program concentrated on change and innovation, should spend a greater amount of time during discovery and voice of the customer meetings to get a clear picture of the client’s existing culture, its ability to loosen structures and policies, and its comfort level with creative talent who may operate outside traditional team structures or approval processes.

MSPs and their staffing partners must spend extra time communicating about the realistic nature of the client’s culture and flexibility.

Staffing professionals, combining this information with their expertise in sourcing creative talent, can more easily assess the best fits between hiring managers and maverick innovators.

The MSP, after coordinating with its staffing partners on submitted candidates, must also be willing to champion these selections to hiring managers, making cases for non-traditional yet innovative talent whose pros outweigh perceived cons.

If there’s a theme for the direction of business in this century, it’s punctuated by a recurring buzzword: innovation. In its assessment of 2014 business trends, Forbes discussed  how the lack of cultural change has suffocated growth. The old ways of doing things were discounted as “roadblocks to process improvements,” with “true breakthrough thinking” and recruiting “more progressive candidates” as the remedies.

 Then, toward the end of the piece, Forbes put all its cards on the table and exposed the challenges openly. “Some companies are indulging in new processes for creative innovation, birthing some big ideas that could open new markets,” the magazine declared. “Many CEOs openly extol innovation… Yet, very few really embrace it, acting on the most relevant ideas to truly advance their company. Change is nerve-wracking, but promising new ideas, tested in advance, can work wonders for almost any business.”

 Machines and data can produce some wonderful things. Coming up with the next big idea that will lead to new iterations of these technologies -- that's best left to the dreamers, the philosophers, the artists and the creative minds behind the science.

 it staffing company in bangalore

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Recruiting and Managing Creative Talent to Inspire Innovation

  Technology and organizational strategies today are bound together in a world striving for performance improvement. It’s hard to dispute that every company has, in a sense, become a technology company. The digital world drives the material world to a tremendous extent these days. It’s a trend that shows no signs of slowing.

 As economist Thomas Pinketty predicts in his groundbreaking work Capital in the Twenty-First Century, much of the economic growth we can expect to see between this year and 2025 will flow from advances in computing, artificial intelligence, data and robotics. Despite the positive impacts these developments could make, financially and functionally, there remain reasonable skeptics who have concerns about the income inequality and vocational losses this sort of mechanized society might create. They offer dire scenarios in which robots replace all human labor -- the only monetary gains going to those who own, manufacture or control the machines.

 MIT Professor Zeynep Ton explains in The Good Jobs Strategy that these examples fail to paint a broader, more realistic picture. Even the most powerful systems require human input and judgment; a purely technological approach to work and civilization would eventually collapse. The relevance and importance of the human element can’t be ignored. Artificial intelligence (AI) can’t exist and grow without the context of the human experience to inform it. Cognitive scientists refer to this discrepancy as the availability bias: people tend to place greater emphasis on information that’s easy to come by, such as data on a spreadsheet, rather than intangibles like the realities involved in the everyday interactions and operations of a business.

 So as we scramble to keep pace with technology and narrow our educational focus on STEM skills, we’re neglecting the very important role that creativity plays in the process.

 Creativity -- The Ghost in the Machine

 It’s easy to succumb to the notion that scientists are stuffy, smock-wearing, bespectacled people who are obsessed with numbers and formulas. Yet without a creative impulse, imagination, vision and an understanding of society, it’s hard to believe that any real scientific accomplishments would have arisen. Science requires creativity for continued innovation. No invention was envisioned without curiosity and ambition: the dreamer gazing at the stars in wonder, the biologist fighting virtual staffing services in pune to cure a terrible disease, the electrical engineer helping to overcome obstacles in the way of communications, and other pioneers motivated by a need to improve our quality of life.

 This sentiment is articulately echoed by astrophysicists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Adam Frank. Both men of science not only acknowledge the necessity of the humanities, they embrace liberal arts as a crucial backbone to scientific achievement. In a recent piece for NPR, Frank advocated for the value of the arts in academia: “In spite of being a scientist, I strongly believe an education that fails to place a heavy emphasis on the humanities is a missed opportunity. Without a base in humanities, both the students -- and the democratic society these students must enter as informed citizens -- are denied a full view of the heritage and critical habits of mind that make civilization worth the effort.”

 Frank provides a solid reason for his conclusion: “The old barriers between the humanities and technology are falling. Historians now use big-data techniques to ask their human-centered questions. Engineers use the same methods -- but with an emphasis on human interfaces -- to answer their own technology-oriented questions.”

 In the future, computers will probably assume a greater share of the work duties currently tasked to human talent, including programming and data analysis. We can’t presume that automation won’t replace or commoditize certain skill sets. Realistically, however, there’s a limit to what machines will be able to do. As Rally Health’s Tom Perrault observes in a recent Harvard Business Review article, “What can’t be replaced in any organization imaginable in the future is precisely what seems overlooked today: liberal arts skills, such as creativity, empathy, listening, and vision. These skills, not digital or technological ones, will hold the keys to a company’s future success. And yet companies aren’t hiring for them. This is a problem for today’s digital companies, and it’s only going to get worse.”

 Technology and Creativity Play Well Together

 Creative talent enjoy taking risks. They see these gambles as necessary systems of trial and error that lead to true innovation. Just like the world’s most renowned scientists, creative talent operate empirically. Missteps and failures don’t deter them -- they instruct them.

 Not only do creative professionals take risks, they refuse to quit in the face of shortcomings, defects or even rebuke from colleagues, managers or others in their communities. They are inherently optimistic and see risks as opportunities. Henry Ford’s first vehicle, a motorized four-wheeled bike of sorts, failed. Miserably. Instead of throwing in the towel, he learned from the mistake and went on to pioneer the Model T. While working for the Kansas City Star, Walt Disney was told by his editor that he lacked imagination and marketable ideas. Obviously, that harsh critique did little to stifle Mr. Disney’s formidable future achievements -- all symbols of imagination and clever marketing.

 Of course, the interesting corollary to these examples is how both creative geniuses promoted technology, instead of working against it. Ford radically shifted methods of transit and work. He absolutely threatened the horse-and-buggy industry, yet his company created countless more jobs virtual staffing services in pune around the world. Ford also renovated the nature of labor with assembly line processes that delivered inexpensive goods to consumers while supporting high wages for workers.

 Walt Disney is a grandfather of realistic audio animatronics. You can’t visit a Disney attraction and not marvel at the robotic characters at the heart of the rides. Yet, the magic of a Disney theme park isn’t all technology -- it’s the exceptional customer service and interaction provided by live talent. The same rings true for Disney and Pixar films. The leaps and bounds in computer animation technology never surpass the humanity of the stories, which comes from writers, artists and voice actors.

 Hiring Creative Talent

 Given the current employment situation, the fierce competition to secure skilled talent makes perfect sense. Yet the creative, intrapreneurial mavericks should not be omitted in the search. Creative workers can be the best hires for companies that are truly in motion, tolerant of change, serious about stirring the pot to innovate, and creating new environments that require a degree of risk and uncertainty. The creativity, drive and exploratory nature of these individuals help businesses discover and capitalize on new opportunities, break free from outdated and ineffective models, pioneer unique solutions, and avoid stagnation. They have the potential to be prized assets for a growing or rebranding company.

 Sourcing creative talent is itself a creative process. Elite staffing professionals excel at matching the right talent to the right business culture, often deploying unconventional recruiting  and screening processes. This is the job of staffing professionals -- one they consistently perform and refine. The best way hiring organizations, MSPs and their staffing suppliers can achieve client goals together is to focus on fit.

 MSPs, when tasked with managing a program concentrated on change and innovation, should spend a greater amount of time during discovery and voice of the customer meetings to get a clear picture of the client’s existing culture, its ability to loosen structures and policies, and its comfort level with creative talent who may operate outside traditional team structures or approval processes.

MSPs and their staffing partners must spend extra time communicating about the realistic nature of the client’s culture and flexibility.

Staffing professionals, combining this information with their expertise in sourcing creative talent, virtual staffing services in pune can more easily assess the best fits between hiring managers and maverick innovators.

The MSP, after coordinating with its staffing partners on submitted candidates, must also be willing to champion these selections to hiring managers, making cases for non-traditional yet innovative talent whose pros outweigh perceived cons.

If there’s a theme for the direction of business in this century, it’s punctuated by a recurring buzzword: innovation. In its assessment of 2014 business trends, Forbes discussed  how the lack of cultural change has suffocated growth. The old ways of doing things were discounted as “roadblocks to process improvements,” with “true breakthrough thinking” and recruiting “more progressive candidates” as the remedies.

 Then, toward the end of the piece, Forbes put all its cards on the table and exposed the challenges openly. “Some companies are indulging in new processes for creative innovation, birthing some big ideas that could open new markets,” the magazine declared. “Many CEOs openly extol innovation… Yet, very few really embrace it, acting on the most relevant ideas to truly advance their company. Change is nerve-wracking, but promising new ideas, tested in advance, can work wonders for almost any business.”

 Machines and data can produce some wonderful things. Coming up with the next big idea that will lead to new iterations of these technologies -- that's best left to the dreamers, the philosophers, the artists and the creative minds behind the science.

 virtual staffing services in pune

[teamplushr13]

It Staffing Company in Hyderabad

Recruiting and Managing Creative Talent to Inspire Innovation

  Technology and organizational strategies today are bound together in a world striving for performance improvement. It’s hard to dispute that every company has, in a sense, become a technology company. The digital world drives the material world to a tremendous extent these days. It’s a trend that shows no signs of slowing.

 As economist Thomas Pinketty predicts in his groundbreaking work Capital in the Twenty-First Century, much of the economic growth we can expect to see between this year and 2025 will flow from advances in computing, artificial intelligence, data and robotics. Despite the positive impacts these developments could make, financially and functionally, there remain reasonable skeptics who have concerns about the income inequality and vocational losses this sort of mechanized society might create. They offer dire scenarios in which robots replace all human labor -- the only monetary gains going to those who own, manufacture or control the machines.

 MIT Professor Zeynep Ton explains in The Good Jobs Strategy that these examples fail to paint a broader, more realistic picture. Even the most powerful systems require human input and judgment; a purely technological approach to work and civilization would eventually collapse. The relevance and importance of the human element can’t be ignored. Artificial intelligence (AI) can’t exist and grow without the context of the human experience to inform it. Cognitive scientists refer to this discrepancy as the availability bias: people tend to place greater emphasis on information that’s easy to come by, such as data on a spreadsheet, rather than intangibles like the realities involved in the everyday interactions and operations of a business.

 So as we scramble to keep pace with technology and narrow our educational focus on STEM skills, we’re neglecting the very important role that creativity plays in the process.

 Creativity -- The Ghost in the Machine

 It’s easy to succumb to the notion that scientists are stuffy, smock-wearing, bespectacled people who are obsessed with numbers and formulas. Yet without a creative impulse, imagination, vision and an understanding of society, it’s hard to believe that any real scientific accomplishments would have arisen. Science requires creativity for continued innovation. No invention was envisioned without curiosity and ambition: the dreamer gazing at the stars in wonder, the biologist fighting to it staffing company hyderabad cure a terrible disease, the electrical engineer helping to overcome obstacles in the way of communications, and other pioneers motivated by a need to improve our quality of life.

 This sentiment is articulately echoed by astrophysicists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Adam Frank. Both men of science not only acknowledge the necessity of the humanities, they embrace liberal arts as a crucial backbone to scientific achievement. In a recent piece for NPR, Frank advocated for the value of the arts in academia: “In spite of being a scientist, I strongly believe an education that fails to place a heavy emphasis on the humanities is a missed opportunity. Without a base in humanities, both the students -- and the democratic society these students must enter as informed citizens -- are denied a full view of the heritage and critical habits of mind that make civilization worth the effort.”

 Frank provides a solid reason for his conclusion: “The old barriers between the humanities and technology are falling. Historians now use big-data techniques to ask their human-centered questions. Engineers use the same methods -- but with an emphasis on human interfaces -- to answer their own technology-oriented questions.”

 In the future, computers will probably assume a greater share of the work duties currently tasked to human talent, including programming and data analysis. We can’t presume that automation won’t replace or commoditize certain skill sets. Realistically, however, there’s a limit to what machines will be able to do. As Rally Health’s Tom Perrault observes in a recent Harvard Business Review article, “What can’t be replaced in any organization imaginable in the future is precisely what seems overlooked today: liberal arts skills, such as creativity, empathy, listening, and vision. These skills, not digital or technological ones, will hold the keys to a company’s future success. And yet companies aren’t hiring for them. This is a problem for today’s digital companies, and it’s only going to get worse.”

 Technology and Creativity Play Well Together

 Creative talent enjoy taking risks. They see these gambles as necessary systems of trial and error that lead to true innovation. Just like the world’s most renowned scientists, creative talent operate empirically. Missteps and failures don’t deter them -- they instruct them.

 Not only do creative professionals take risks, they refuse to quit in the face of shortcomings, defects or even rebuke from colleagues, managers or others in their communities. They are inherently optimistic and see risks as opportunities. Henry Ford’s first vehicle, a motorized four-wheeled bike of sorts, failed. Miserably. Instead of throwing in the towel, he learned from the mistake and went on to pioneer the Model T. While working for the Kansas City Star, Walt Disney was told by his editor that he lacked imagination and marketable ideas. Obviously, that harsh critique did little to stifle Mr. Disney’s formidable future achievements -- all symbols of imagination and clever marketing.

 Of course, the interesting corollary to these examples is how both creative geniuses promoted technology, instead of working against it. Ford radically shifted methods of transit and work. He absolutely threatened the horse-and-buggy industry, yet his company created countless more jobs around the world. Ford also renovated the nature of labor with assembly line processes that delivered inexpensive goods to consumers while supporting high wages for workers.

 Walt Disney is a grandfather of realistic audio animatronics. You can’t visit a Disney attraction and not marvel at the robotic characters at the heart of the rides. Yet, the magic of a Disney theme park isn’t all technology -- it’s the exceptional customer service and interaction provided by live talent. The same rings true for Disney and Pixar films. The leaps and bounds in computer animation technology never surpass the humanity of the stories, which comes from writers, artists and voice actors.

 Hiring Creative Talent

 Given the current employment situation, the fierce competition to secure skilled talent makes perfect sense. Yet the creative, intrapreneurial mavericks should not be omitted in the search. Creative workers can be the best hires for companies that are truly in motion, tolerant of change, serious about stirring the pot to innovate, and creating new environments that require a degree of risk and uncertainty. The creativity, drive and exploratory nature of these individuals help businesses discover and capitalize on new opportunities, break free from outdated and ineffective models, pioneer unique solutions, and avoid stagnation. They have the potential to be prized assets for a growing or rebranding company.

 Sourcing creative talent is itself a creative process. Elite staffing professionals excel at matching the right talent to the right business culture, often deploying unconventional recruiting it staffing company hyderabad and screening processes. This is the job of staffing professionals -- one they consistently perform and refine. The best way hiring organizations, MSPs and their staffing suppliers can achieve client goals together is to focus on fit.

 MSPs, when tasked with managing a program concentrated on change and innovation, should spend a greater amount of time during discovery and voice of the customer meetings to get a clear picture of the client’s existing culture, its ability to loosen structures and policies, and its comfort level with creative talent who may operate outside traditional team structures or approval processes.

MSPs and their staffing partners must spend extra time communicating about the realistic nature of the client’s culture and flexibility.

Staffing professionals, combining this information with their expertise in sourcing creative talent, can more easily assess the best fits between hiring managers and maverick innovators.

The MSP, after coordinating with its staffing partners on submitted candidates, must also be willing to champion these selections to hiring managers, making cases for non-traditional yet innovative talent whose pros outweigh perceived cons.

If there’s a theme for the direction of business in this century, it’s punctuated by a recurring buzzword: innovation. In its assessment of 2014 business trends, Forbes discussed it staffing company hyderabad how the lack of cultural change has suffocated growth. The old ways of doing things were discounted as “roadblocks to process improvements,” with “true breakthrough thinking” and recruiting “more progressive candidates” as the remedies.

 Then, toward the end of the piece, Forbes put all its cards on the table and exposed the challenges openly. “Some companies are indulging in new processes for creative innovation, birthing some big ideas that could open new markets,” the magazine declared. “Many CEOs openly extol innovation… Yet, very few really embrace it, acting on the most relevant ideas to truly advance their company. Change is nerve-wracking, but promising new ideas, tested in advance, can work wonders for almost any business.”

 Machines and data can produce some wonderful things. Coming up with the next big idea that will lead to new iterations of these technologies -- that's best left to the dreamers, the philosophers, the artists and the creative minds behind the science.

  it staffing company hyderabad