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How does your career path look, like a treadmill or like a travelator? Picture credit: lars hammar For most people it’s fairly easy to tell because they are head down, covering the same ground – day in, day out. They are relentlessly driving the treadmills that power our organizations. But even those who believe that they are striding purposefully give your mind some thinking space
Enjoying a good stiff cappuccino in a coffee-shop the other day, when a young woman came in wearing a paint-smattered smock. Picture credit: Arty Smokes So was she a playgroup assistant, or a renowned artist? I will never know. But it made me think how quickly we can jump to conclusions from first appearances – and how lost reputations are always given away
A good reputation is hard-won and easily lost. But the lost reputation has invariably been given away by the actions of the holder, rather than been taken away by somebody else.
Picture credit: Shoot Art, Not Each If prophets are despised in their own land, where does that leave Visionaries – are they trapped or liberated by their own insight? The V word has increasingly wide currency but is far more often misappropriated than warranted. So how do you recognise a true visionary among the pretenders? Picture credit: krish.tipirneni Well there is an obvious distinction Much effort has been put into getting machines to pass the so-called Turing Test. But, conversely, how does a machine know it’s talking to a human? Picture credit: Loz Flowers Turing Test corollary: a human knowingly talking to a [telephone answering] machine often loses coherence and language skills, ergo machine knows |
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