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Articles by William Matthies
Do kids listen to their parents?
Just not always, but often enough when we wished they hadn’t. My wife and I raised two boys, now adults with children of their own. Throughout the years they were with us, I assumed more often than not that they paid little attention to what I said. I was wrong more often than not. This shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Children learn to speak by listening to those around them.
How Job Automation Will Change Your Future
How job automation will change your future Awhile back I published an article here in People Development Magazine entitled “3 STEPS TO “DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION” PROOF YOUR CAREER“. The primary message is: you can and should monitor the career “landscape” in which you find yourself, both today and in the probable future. This is true for a number of reasons not the least of which is job automation.
Failure: What I Learned From My Best Mistake
As children, most every one of us failed in most everything we first tried to do: We have a lot more failure from which to learn than we do success so let’s not waste all that valuable experience. So I thought I’d share what I believe to be the one professional failure in my life that taught me way more than all the others. My best mistake. What we have here is a failure to communicate. I joined Pioneer Electronics, then one of the Japanese consumer electronic audio/video giants, in the late 70’s.
Beware False Prophets: The Great Millennial Fraud
Much of my career has involved market research. Prior to its sale, my market research and database marketing company did in excess of 300,000 consumer interviews a year, most of it regarding technology, along with another 50,000+ interviews each year with retailers who sold consumers technology products. I understand the power of data regardless of how accurate it is, or isn’t, and much of the time it is more the latter than the former.
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