Sergio Faria

A handbook of the Technology Engine dynamics

Revisado: 12-02-17

Just finished reading "The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future", from Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of the Wired magazine. This is really a great book, which has been recommended by my friend Javier Giachino.

Do you want to know what are the products, brands and companies that will thrive in the next 30 years? In this case, don’t read this book. You are not going to find any answers. This is entirely unpredictable and totally subjected to market forces.

Now, if you want to know which are the 12 INEVITABLE forces which will shape technology in the next 30 years, here they are: Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and Beginning.

What’s fascinating about these 12 forces is the fact that they aren’t science fiction. They are about things that all of us can notice in technology today. Or even more. They are forces that been around likely for the last 30 years.

So, as a physicist would say, instead of just realizing what we have today (statics), or of being impressed with the speed and acceleration of changes (kinematics), go ahead and learn about the forces that are generating the transformations that we are living (dynamics).

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

Your handbook for a 100-year lfe

Revisado: 06-11-17

Can you picture yourself driving backwards on a high-speed freeway? Although this may sound scary, it's actually how we usually manage our own lives: looking in the rearview mirror to determine our future actions.

If you are an individual currently living at Planet Earth, this is a book which is very like worthwhile for you to read.

From the scientific evidence which shows that children who are born now have a 50 percent chance of living to 100 years (compared to 1 percent chance in early 20th century), Linda Gratton and Andrew Scott, suggest that we must evolve from a "three-stage life" (comprising learning, working, retiring) to a life of 4 or 5 "age-agnostic" stages, which should include material changes on how we obtain and accumulate tangible and intangible assets, allowing a 100-year life to be a gift rather than a curse.

This book isn't only for younger people who are statistically candidates for the 100-year life, but for everyone who will likely experience extended life expectancy and can not only make own decisions, but also influence corporations, governments André​ overall society on how to evolve from the yet prevalent 3-stage life.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 4 personas

Leadership exterminator?

Revisado: 04-28-17

A superficial reading of Jeffrey Pfeffer’s book may lead to the erroneous conclusion that this celebrated professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business is a “leadership exterminator”. That’s not true. Jeffrey courageously unmasks the “leadership industry” and demonstrate - with undeniable scientific evidence - that all the skills and traits leaders are expected to demonstrate, are typically exercised in the very opposite way. However, this is not leaders fault. This happens because the system has been designed to encourage leaders not to behave as prescribed on leadership books and talks. Pfeffer doesn’t have the solution to fix the system, but he definitely provides great guidance for anyone to survive on it.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

Much more than workplace history!

Revisado: 04-07-17

Do you to learn about the history of the workplace? Go ahead, you will find it here, since the industrial revolution through today's coworking facilities.

But there is much more! Sarah's story is really about the white collars and how they were influenced and influence the world we live. His ironic and sometimes sarcastic narrative becomes even more exciting and provocative when we figured out he's taking about people that could be exactly like you and me. Or like our parents and grandparents.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña