Author Archives: Kristin Wolff
Kristin Wolff
“We Seek Agility”
Team: Take a look. It’s as if we helped create parts of this. (Perhaps in a complex, highly networked kind of way, we did). Grateful to ResonanceBlog for sharing. Complexity & Humanity 2.0 View more videos from ResonanceBlog.
Posted in Fun, Treasures, Uncategorized, leadership Tagged agility, complexity, networks, transformation Leave a comment
Book Review: Open Leadership, Charlene Li – A Practical Guide to the Emerging Open Future
I loved Groundswell (Josh Bernoff, Charlene Li). While little in the way of specific content was new to me at the time I read it, the book offered an organizing framework: an environmental snapshot, an articulation of changing practices, and specific strategies for embracing (and measuring) them – all of which gave me a coherent [...]
Economy, Place, and Public Radio
“The Economy.” The phrase suggests one economy – as if our experiences of markets and the forces that shape them are universal. But we experience different economies, based on the industries in which we work, the particular jobs we hold, the communities in which we live, and our own unique circumstances. Some people have suffered [...]
Posted in Community, Economy, workforce Tagged All Things Considered, Caldwell College, community, economy, Frank Langfitt, furniture, google, Lenoir, Macomb Community College, Michigan Public Radio, Michigan Works, MPR, North Carolina, OPB, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Oregon Workforce Alliance, public radio, Rural Economy Initiative, The Oregon Consortium Leave a comment
Getting Strategic About Skills
NOTE: This is the third in our recent “let’s share the findings from all those OECD reports with each other (and the world)” series. Again, the content is not likely scintillating, but it’s important to us, and we’re happy to let you in on it. The OECD Designing Local Skills Strategies Report (2009) focuses largely [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Community, Economy, Longform, Regions, skills, workforce Tagged community, diadvantaged, economy, governance, leadership, OECD, placement, policy, sectors, skills, strategies, talent, training, upskilling, workforce Leave a comment
Labor Market Policy: It’s About More Than Skills
NOTE: This is a continuation of the series we warned you about a few days ago. We are summarizing several large reports for each other (members of the Community Team at CSW), but we’re doing it here so you can benefit too – you know, if you are interested (since you found your way here [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Economy, Longform, skills, workforce Tagged community, competitiveness, economy, human capital, human rsources, jobs, labor market, labour market, local, national, OECD, policy, prosperity, skills, workforce, workforce development Leave a comment
Big Changes at Work
Last week we were drafting a set of policy recommendations for a project. We’d drafted an introduction that named demographics, technology, and the competitive landscape as among the most significant domains of change in the workplace during the past decade. At that point I realized how many times I’d seen this collection of words and [...]
Posted in Longform, Social Change, Work and Learning 2.0, Young People Tagged diversity, economy, growth, learning, millenials, recession, sustainability, talent, technology, trends, workers, workforce, workforce demographics Leave a comment
What We Know About Regional Economic Growth, Innovation, and Recovery
NOTE: We’ll be be posting findings from a few papers we’re reviewing with the intent of sharing with colleagues. We’re doing this here so that you might benefit from them too, but wanted to warn you before you read too far. We just reviewed Regions Matter (OECD, November 2009). It’s chalk full of bits and [...]
Posted in Economy, Longform, Regions, Resilience Tagged Collaboration, economic growth, economy, gorwth, governance, innovation, leadership, OECD, policy, Regions, workforce 2 Comments
US Department of Labor Employees Meet Each Other (and US!) on Facebook
“We’re All Doing It” Last month the US Department of Labor (DOL) launched a Facebook page. Other federal agencies maintain them too, but DOL hasn’t really been out-front in implementing the Administration’s early commitment to communication, transparency, and participation. While Facebook is just one means of demonstrating this commitment (the Department, and Secretary of Labor [...]
The Power of Connecting
Smart Communities Connect, Share, and Drive from Data At the risk of making this post feel like an ad, I embedded “The Way We Work” above. The video clearly explains (from an enterprise perspective) the same theory of change we’re trying to advance from a community perspective – how connecting us to each and to [...]
Posted in Community, Gov20, Uncategorized, Work and Learning 2.0 Tagged Collaboration, community, gov2.0, IBM, smart cities, smart communities Leave a comment
Seven Reasons to Love DonorsChoose.org: Lessons for School Fundraisers?