Episode 93: How is Work Being Redefined?

A different episode this week as Work and the Future Host Linda Nazareth is interviewed about her just-released book Working it Out: Getting Ready for the Redesigned World of Work.  Special guest Bridgett Anderson, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, talks to Linda about the forces that are changing the economy […]

Episode 92: How Can You Make Wise Decisions at Work?

Working and making decisions go hand in hand.  Every day we make dozens of decisions some thoughtful and good but others perhaps clouded by emotions or by haste. They are not all wise decisions – but maybe they could be, or maybe more of them could be. To talk about how to make better decisions, […]

Book Review: A Book That Gets The Drama of the Workplace

A blog that covers economic and labor market trends may seem to be a strange place for a fiction book review.  Then again, maybe not. The changes now going on in the workplace are saga-worthy, and there is something to be said for looking at those changes through novelists’ eyes. Besides, it’s my blog and […]

I Downloaded a Hachette Book from Amazon. Did I Do Something Wrong?

Free markets or authors?  Book sellers or publishing companies? If you support one player, can you not support another? That seems to be the convoluted case as it is being played out by Amazon.com and the publishing  company The Hachette Book Group, and it leaves authors and readers (like me in both cases) in a […]