“The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to make it in the world or to meet their basic human needs. The same people and places are often the first recipients of the frustration and anger--violence, vandalism, disrespect--of young people who are not making it well in the world. I suspect that this is the reason that personal and school property violence is increasing more rapidly than school burglary and dropout rates.” PeopleWorldNeedsFirstsHumansWellsReasonSchoolYoungSupportViolenceEmotionalSkillsPropertyRateFrustrationSuspectsCherishDisrespectYoung LoveHuman NeedsEmotional SupportDropoutsVandalismBurglaryBasic Human Needs Author:James P. Comer
“You know, people like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington. I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government creates jobs. And one of the best things we can do is get the government out of the way, put in reign in all the out of control regulations, put in place and all of the above energy policy, give people the education, the skills that the need to succeed, and lower the tax rate and reform the tax code.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayNeedsGivingGovernmentJobsAmericaEnergyGrowsCan DoEconomyGrowingPolicySucceedSkillsTaxesClintonRateReformCodeBest ThingsRegulationReignEnergy Policy Author:Scott Walker
“At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.” IfsNeedsWould BeJobsForceRiskSkillsComplexesRateGradesStableCompositionPercentagesOversimplification Author:Alan Greenspan
“The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating.” ThinkingTryingMindKindMomentsBodyDecisionFeetSkillsPressureRateNervousPulseNervous SystemSweatingEntwinedNew SkillsRespiration Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.” ShouldFirstsLittlesJobsEnergyChanceNumbersTalentBecomingSkillsAreasPerformancesExcellenceWorkersRateMediocrityMediocreIncompetenceAssignmentsKnowledge Workers Book:Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items) Source: Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)
“I think we both need to work on our communication skills. (Kiara) I tried that once. (Nykyrian) And? (Kiara) Darling told me that I could never hold a job as a suicide counselor or hostage negotiator. He said my failure rate would become the stuff of legends. (Nykyrian)” ThinkingNeedsSaidJobsStuffCommunicationSkillsSuicideRateCommunication SkillsLegendsDarlingHostageCounselor Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.” TodayJobsResultsProgressNeededSkillsRateDespiteTechnologicalUnemploymentUnemployedTechnological Progress Author:Kim Campbell