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Leadership talent is hidden everywhere. Emerging leaders are inside companies, in the lines of business or tucked away in back office units. They’re also at schools, colleges, in digital learning programs, and beyond. Many are even outside the corporate mainstream, working as freelancers or gig workers.
Leadership talent: search vs. discovery
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Leadership talent is hidden everywhere.
Emerging leaders are inside companies, in the lines of business or tucked away in back office units.
They’re also at schools, colleges, in digital learning programs, and beyond.
Many are even outside the corporate mainstream, working as freelancers or gig workers.
All of them have the skills stacks that make effective business leaders.
And, contrary to conventional wisdom, leadership talent is in fact abundant.
So how do you find them? Connect with them? Mobilize them? And how do you bring them on board to lead the companies of the future?
Search
Search—including the human type, as well as its digital clone—can’t unearth these leaders.
Search is limited—and, as a paradigm, extremely limiting.
That’s because you can only search for the type of talent you already know. In other words, whom you know determines whom you find.
This is precisely why talent blindspots are such a big limiting factor for corporates, and for companies that aspire to serve the demand for business leadership.
Ciritcally, as the landscape of leadership changes and expands (geographically, demographically, and structurally), new types of leadership talent become critical. And that’s when the limitations of search become an even bigger problem.
For example, a Silicon Valley VC will have no idea what an African entrepreneur might look like. She will likely miss out on that opportunity.
Discovery
Discovery is the antidote to search. It’s the way of the future.
Here’s why.
Think of Netflix.
Imagine you had to search the Netflix database of movies by using search queries.
You’ll most certainly miss out on the best movies and spend most of your time searching and browsing.
Your content experience will get utterly warped. You’ll likely drop Netflix in a heartbeat.
Discovery, on the other hand, is a game changer.
Discovery algorithms help us find what we need, even though we don’t know it exists, what it looks like, or how to find it.
As we said earlier, discovery is the way of the future and we’re making this future a reality.
Stay tuned for our upcoming product development announcements.
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Netflix revolutionized entertainment distribution for studios, producers, and consumers worldwide. The technology’s personalized recommendations system matches viewers with movies they’d want to watch, without searching. Netflix organizes and surfaces content in new personalized categories, which enable consumers to explore and discover movies they’d love—including movies they didn’t know existed.
Netflix for Talent
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Netflix revolutionized entertainment distribution for studios, producers, and consumers worldwide.
The technology’s personalized recommendations system matches viewers with movies they’d want to watch, without searching.
Netflix organizes and surfaces content in new personalized categories, which enable consumers to explore and discover movies they’d love—including movies they didn’t know existed.
Netflix is data-driven so it gets smarter with scale and usage, which drives higher end-to-end value.
Compared with its video-rental predecessors, consumer value on Netflix is exponentially higher. That’s because viewers spend their time actually getting entertained, instead of searching for (uncertain) entertainment.
Its movie-matching algorithms also mean there’s a liquid channel that surfaces obscure content, no matter how little known it might be.
Netflix is a smart digital infrastructure.
It makes the world of content consumable, like never before, and shapes its future.
Talent is not different from movies.
Stay tuned.
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Business leaders believe digital is the most critical element of executing a successful digital transformation. This is strategically wrong. Here is why. Turning a threatened company into a thriving digital economy company is not about projects such as launching a website, building an app, using digital channels, or amassing (and, hopefully, analyzing) data.
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Business leaders believe digital is the most critical element of executing a successful digital transformation.
This is strategically wrong.
Here is why.
Turning a threatened company into a thriving digital economy company is not about projects such as launching a website, building an app, using digital channels, or amassing (and, hopefully, analyzing) data.
Digital transformation must focus, instead, on effecting a fundamental change in how the company operates to achieve its business goals.
Learning from Microsoft
In identifying the key factor to Microsoft’s successful transitioning to the digital economy, CEO Satya Nadella pointed to this:
“It’s our ability to work together that makes our dreams believable and, ultimately, achievable.”
Practically, a company must make all the changes necessary to enable constant change as the new modus operandi.
It’s all about superskills
This includes changing who is empowered to make decisions and the conditions sufficient for taking actions, how the company experiments and innovates, how it builds new products and services, how it brings such products and services to market, how it interacts with—and learns from—customers, and how it acts on market signals.
Making these changes requires rewiring existing mindsets, replacing long-standing habits, and reshaping current practices.
In other words, the most critical element for readying your business for doing business in the digital economy is your company’s skills base.
You must ensure you have the right skills stacks in place to: (a) execute on the transformation itself, and (b) operate effectively in the post-transformation M.O. of constant change.
Leadership takeaways
CEOs and Boards must focus on adopting a clear skills strategy:
Map the company’s skill base and identify strategic gaps
Allocate skill resources effectively to execute on the transformation itself
Secure a future skills pipeline that supplies the talent the company needs for its post-transformation operational reality
Getting skills right is the most critical work that makes all other work possible and, ultimately, achievable.
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The digital talent landscape is changing rapidly, and companies must transform every aspect of their business operations. To thrive in this new economy, businesses must discover extraordinary people who can do great work, work well with others, and produce strong results.
Skills-as-a-Services: Superskills
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The digital talent landscape is changing rapidly, and companies must transform every aspect of their business operations.
To thrive in this new economy, businesses must discover extraordinary people who can do great work, work well with others, and produce strong results.
To do that, employers are moving away from traditional qualifications, seeking instead ‘honest signals’ that show what people can do and how well they’ll perform.
This is why skills — the honest signals that link most strongly to future work performance — are quickly becoming the new global currency that powers the talent market of the digital economy.
In this economy skills are a strategy,for obtaining a skills advantage presents a powerful strategic advantage.
Superskills, Nanoskills
The global skills space consists of superskills and nanoskills. (While various terms are used to describe skills, it’s time to use a clearer ver(k)nac(k)ular fitting a new global currency).
Superskills are the basic “elements” that make up people’s unique “operating systems.”
Nanoskills are the “apps” people “run” (or could run) on their unique superskills “operating systems.”
In an effort to develop a global skills system, we’re launching a new superskills stack, which we’re sharing here ahead of the product release.
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[Here is the full post; sorry you’re getting this again, we didn’t intend to spam your inbox 😊]. The digital talent landscape is changing rapidly, and companies must transform every aspect of their business operations. To thrive in this new economy, businesses
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[Here is the full post; sorry you’re getting this again, we didn’t intend to spam your inbox 😊].
The digital talent landscape is changing rapidly, and companies must transform every aspect of their business operations.
To thrive in this new economy, businesses must discover extraordinary talent and leaders who can do great work, work well with others, and produce strong results.
To do that, employers are moving away from traditional qualifications, seeking instead ‘honest signals’ that show what people can do and how well they’ll perform.
This is why skills — the honest signals that link most strongly to future work performance — are quickly becoming the new global currency that powers the talent market of the digital economy.
In this economy skills are a strategy, for obtaining a skills advantage presents a powerful strategic advantage.
Superskills, Nanoskills
The global skills space consists of superskills and nanoskills. (While various terms are used to describe skills, it’s time to use a clearer ver(k)nac(k)ular fitting a new global currency).
Superskills are the basic “elements” that make up people’s unique “operating systems.”
Nanoskills are the “apps” people “run” (or could run) on their unique superskills “operating systems.”
In an effort to develop a global skills system, we’re launching a new superskills stack, which we’re sharing here ahead of the product release.
Our Skills-as-as-Service SaaS platform uses these superskills to provide a full stack of business and consumer features and services.
Stay tuned for more, soon.
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Our team is on a mission to innovate more, build faster, ship better products, support more customers, impact more people, grow faster. It’s all…
Things we stopped doing...
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Our team is on a mission to innovate more, build faster, ship better products, support more customers, impact more people, grow faster.
It’s all part of our bigger mission to change the world and make it better.
We realized that getting there is not just about what we do… but also about what westop doing.
So…
❌we stopped having full team meetings (and shifted to micro-team collaborations)
❌we (just!) stopped sending product presentations (cause we never like making these)
❌we stopped giving lengthy email responses (and encourage all leads to just sign up and use the product)
❌we stopped sending invoices (and shifted everything to digital)
❌we stopped prioritizing customer requirements over product roadmap
And we’ll probably stop doing many more things we used to do!
🤔What about you? What have you stopped doing? And what do you want to stop doing?
🍎Share your tips and pearls of wisdom, and help the community grow.
— the KnackApp team
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With pictures of extraordinary young people from around the world Extraordinary talent is hidden everywhere. Yes, our data shows there’s extraordinary talent everywhere. But this talent trove remains undiscovered, and its value goes unrealized. Finding this global talent stock will make all the difference in the world — for these people and their families, our schools and companies,
How to find extraordinary talent?
With pictures of extraordinary young people from around the world
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Extraordinary talent is hiddeneverywhere.
Yes, our data shows there’s extraordinary talent everywhere.
But this talent trove remains undiscovered, and its value goes unrealized.
Finding this global talent stock will make all the difference in the world — for these people and their families, our schools and companies, our economy and innovation throughput, and our society’s welfare.
Yet, extraordinary talent comes in all ‘shapes and forms’ that you don’t even know exist or what they look like.
To put it simply, you won’t even know where to look and you won’t be able to find them—if you continue to do what organizations have been doing pointlessly and wastefully for decades.
Sometimes, oftentimes, we’ve got to just stop doing certain things so we can do something different, something bold, that produces results.
Here’s what we recommend:
❌Don’t think search.
🍎Think discovery.
📡Let people anywhere <signal> their hidden superskills, so you can discover the extraordinary talent that’s out there in the world.
These ‘honest signals’ are helping us index the world’s stock of human potential and form our Google Maps for Talent
This is why our technology makes otherwise hidden, obscure and unrecognized human talent discoverable and accessible.
Technology change is changing the game and enables the discovery, development and deployment of the world’s stocks of extraordinary talent — at web scale, like never before.
Go here to learn more.
These pictures show young people around the world signaling their hidden talent and human potential.
We want to reach the new human frontier. It’s our moonshot challenge.
We chose this as our goal. Not because it’s easy, but because it’s the most valuable and consequential goal we know of.
We’re climbing the highest mountain, not so the world can see us but so we can see the world.
Because that will enable us to see farther and make all the difference in the world.
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🚀Our team is on a mission to innovate boldly, build disruptive technologies, and release great digital products. 🌍🌎🌏It’s part of our global …
Things we hear and ignore...
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🚀Our team is on a mission to innovate boldly, build disruptive technologies, and release great digital products.
🌍🌎🌏It’s part of our global ambition to reshape how businesses discover talent, redefine how people connect with opportunity, and reimagine how economies unleash potential.
Achieving this is not just about what we do, but also about what we don’t do—and what we stop doing.
❌This is why we stopped doing certain things.
(Yes, we also know it makes some people raise their eyebrows, and that’s okay).
One of the things we stopped doing is giving our time to ‘dawdlers’, companies that for whatever reason are not ready to change.
Dawdlers like to keep things as they are.
The future doesn’t excite them.
They also use certain language that helps us spot them quickly—
🙉”Can you send us more information, presentations and brochures?” (No)
🙉”We’re on a journey to innovate, but and we’re just starting…” (Great)
🙉”We’re just exploring new things…” (…)
🙉”We’re going to discuss this in our offsite meeting next year…” (Good luck)
🙉”We’re going to put this on our innovation agenda for next year” (Wow!)
🙉”Please keep us updated as you continue your journey” (We’re busy)
Dawdlers make us zone out. And that’s when we tune out.
Time is precious. Innovation can’t wait.
🤔Have you met any dawdlers?
🍎Share your tips and help our innovation community grow.
— The KnackApp team
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If you’re following us, you’d know by now that— 🐵Our team is on a mission to innovate boldly, build disruptive technologies, release powerful d…
🐵How we think about startup and entrepreneurship
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If you’re following us, you’d know by now that—
🐵Our team is on a mission to innovate boldly, build disruptive technologies, release powerful digital products
🐵It’s part of our global mission — and ambition — to reshape how businesses discover talent, redefine how people connect with opportunity, and reimagine how economies unleash potential
🙈We don’t do things the conventional, expected way
🙉We get bored quickly and tune out many things we hear from the market
That’s part of why we’re getting asked (a lot!) about startup and entrepreneurship.
And we want to share with you how we think about it, and how we go about it.
In one word, a startup is…
LEARNING
It’s all about learning.
🤔You’re probably asking, “How so?”
Let’s unpack this—
🍜We don’t know how to do many things we need to get done, so we learn and figure out these things
🍜We don’t know if what we want to do will actually work, so we do it quickly to learn if it does or doesn’t
🍜We don’t know how the market is going to respond to new things we do, so we build fast and release so we can learn from the pouring feedback
🍜We don’t always know who’s the best person to do something, so we keep things flexible so team members can learn and find out for themselves
🍜We don’t know what we don’t know, so we learned that spontaneous, unplanned, serendipitous conversations are often the most unexpected way to learn
Learning is the defining DNA of our startup.
And that makes us think learning should be the defining DNA of every group and organization that wants to change, innovate and make progress.
🍎Our community would love to LEARN from your experience, so do share!
🚀Got questions? Reach out to us at ceo@knackapp.com
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What’s the connection between alcohol and inventions? You might think it’s a silly question… But the answer sheds light on the social dynamics and information flows that underlie inventions and innovations. And as such, has important insights and implications.
Really? A connection between🍻alcohol &💡inventions?
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What’s the connection between alcohol and inventions?
You might think it’s a silly question…
But the answer sheds light on the social dynamics and information flows that underlie inventions and innovations.
And as such, has important insights and implications.
Check it out below.
And start thinking on what this means for communities and cities around the world that aspire to become the next tech and innovation hubs (No, they don’t need to encourage drinking!).
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There’s an inverse relationship between size and innovation. In other words, as companies get larger, they innovate less as companies grow, their innovation gets marginal and incremental as companies mature (“elephants”), they reach the point of near-zero innovation
Why big companies can't innovate?
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There’s an inverse relationship between size and innovation.
In other words,
as companies get larger, they innovate less
as companies grow, their innovation gets marginal and incremental
as companies mature (“elephants”), they reach the point of near-zero innovation
And then they vanish.
It’s not that they don’t invest in R&D. They do!
Many actually invest quite a lot of money.
And, in fact, Harvard Business Review data shows that bigger companies invest way more than smaller firms—in relative and absolute terms.
Still, their spending advantage doesn’t help them win the innovation game (in fact, this “advantage” probably hurts them, but this is for another post).
Why is this?
That’s because, contrary to what IBM’s Lou Gerstner said, elephants can’t dance!
It’s their decision making that’s causing the problem.
Big companies are just very slow.
They’re slow in processing information, in making decisions, and in taking actions.
And that makes all the difference.
The takeaway?
Here’s how you can innovate better—and faster.
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There’s an inverse correlation between size and collaboration. Here’s what we’re saying— As companies get bigger, their teams tend to get bigger As teams get bigger, coordination ‘consumes’ way too much energy and attention As teams get bigger, communication gets constrained; and
Why companies suck at collaboration?
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There’s an inverse correlation between size and collaboration.
Here’s what we’re saying—
As companies get bigger, their teams tend to get bigger
As teams get bigger, coordination ‘consumes’ way too much energy and attention
As teams get bigger, communication gets constrained; and
As teams get bigger, collaboration stifles
Size matters.
Big teams choke collaboration.
It’s why most big companies suck at collaboration.
It’s why they can’t win the innovation game (their big R&D spend notwithstanding!)
And as teams are eating the world, cracking this critical interplay is key to the future of your business—and to your personal future, too.
So what can you do about it?
Keep it small
Make it nimble
Ignore the ‘conventional’ wisdom of the “Two Pizza Rule” (that says teams should not be larger than what two pizzas can feed)
Aim for near-zero coordination
Direct energy, attention and motivation to substance
That’s how we collaborate at KnackApp.
We’ve got one rule, and only one: the smallest joint collaborator—which says, in plain English, the smallest team wins! It’s why we work in microteams (more on that later).
Now…
Consider the US Apollo space mission.
This three-person team landed the first humans on the moon—and brought them back to earth. And that was back in 1969.
As Einstein said, “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
The takeaway?
In the race to collaborate and innovate, big is the winner’s curse.
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Our team is on a mission. And that mission is to change the world through breakthrough innovation that solves some of society’s most critical problems. This is why we think a lot about how we innovate—and question the way we go about innovation. We believe in innovation. Innovation is our constant.
💡❓The things we question about innovation
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Our team is on a mission.
And that mission is to change the world through breakthrough innovation that solves some of society’s most critical problems.
This is why we think a lot about how we innovate—and question the way we go about innovation.
We believe in innovation. Innovation is our constant.
It’s our state of being. (And even our state of sleeping, because we also dream about it 😉)
We want to share with you our thinking about innovation.
In case you find it helpful—at work, in business, at home, or beyond.
Innovation is about questioning the way we do things vs. assuming we just have to do what we do the way it’s been done so far.
Questioning is where it all starts.
Questioning is about asking “Why are we doing it this way?” and “Is there a better way to get this done?”.
It’s also about asking, “Why are we doing it to begin with?”! (We ❤️this question!)
But far more importantly…
It’s about asking a deeper meta-question, “Are we thinking about it the right way?”.
We’ve learned time and again that the way we think about things shapes the questions we ask.
The questions we ask, shape the ideas we come up with.
And the ideas we come up with, shape the solutions we build.
The takeaway?
Question things, question everything.
It’s the path to bold ideas and disruptive innovation.
It’s the path to changing the world—and your world.
ps - do let us know if this is helpful.
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Here’s the latest fact. Rich households produce children that produce more inventions and patents. In other words, the kids of higher-earning parents have far greater likelihood — upwards of 1000% higher chance — of becoming inventors. These are the findings of the latest economic research.
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Here’s the latest fact.
Rich households produce children that produce more inventions and patents.
In other words, the kids of higher-earning parents have far greater likelihood — upwards of 1000% higher chance — of becoming inventors.
These are the findings of the latest economic research.
Let’s unpack this.
We know you can find extraordinary talent anywhere.
We also know that children growing up in poor households have indistinguishable levels of human potential to those growing up in privileged circumstances.
What role, then, does parents’ income play here?
High parents’ income might facilitate the transformation of raw human potential into actual achievement in a number of ways.
But it’s also possible that income is just a proxy for some other hidden factor that’s at play here.
For example, higher-earning parents, who tend to hold highly powerful and impactful professional roles, provide their kids with the role models children mimic as they form their life aspirations.
No doubt, there could be other explanations as to how parents’ income levels shape their kids future.
Whatever it is, parents’ income level creates a sticky path dependence that affects the turning of raw potential into achievement.
And, as you might guess, this effect compounds over time as a result of recursive feedback loops. In other words, success breeds success.
Why are these findings so important?
It’s because they show that an enormous portion of the available human potential around the world remains underutilized or, worse, entirely unutilized.
This huge loss undermines society’s global throughput of inventions.
This loss also means our society is not advancing as well and as fast as it could towards solving critical problems and improving people lives.
It’s a huge loss. No doubt.
The takeaways?
We need to discover extraordinary talent wherever it is
We need to harness the massive scale and unprecedented unit of economics of digital innovation to on-board people anywhere onto pathways to learning, skilling, work, leadership, and entrepreneurship
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Innovation is the make-or-break of every business. And businesses that don’t (or can’t) innovate, become obsolete (remember Kodak?). But innovation alone just won’t do it. Here’s why. Innovation has a temporal dimension. The new service or product has to reach the market
⌛️Why timescale is most critical?
Dec 6
Innovation is the make-or-break of every business.
And businesses that don’t (or can’t) innovate, become obsolete (remember Kodak?).
But innovation alone just won’t do it.
Here’s why.
Innovation has a temporal dimension.
The new service or product has to reach the market in time.
Or else it becomes irrelevant even before it hits the market.
Think about it.
The market isn’t static. Market sentiment is always forming and reforming.
The market is always looking for new breakthroughs.
Innovation means service paradigms and product categories are constantly changing.
At the meta level, innovation also puts constant pressure on existing product distribution and customer acquisition models.
Which breeds new business models and produces new businesses.
Bearing this in mind is critical precisely because this broader innovation space caps the timeliness window for your innovation.
Let’s make this more concrete.
Think of the shift to cloud.
If you’re developing a non-SaaS product, you’re probably misallocating your time and energy or, at best, targeting a rapidly shrinking laggard market.
The takeaway?
If you want to innovate successfully—
Don’t treat innovation as a non-time-bound process
Manage the timescale of innovation
Accelerate the speed of learning
Reach high information-processing speed, make fast decisions, then leap to action
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Once in a while we tell the life-changing stories of people. Such is the story of Mwikisa, a young person from Lusaka, Zambia. Mwikisa is passionate about business entrepreneurship and innovation. But like millions of youth in Africa and beyond, no one noticed his hidden talent and potential.
🌍A true story, not to be missed
Dec 7
Once in a while we tell the life-changing stories of people.
Such is the story of Mwikisa, a young person from Lusaka, Zambia.
Mwikisa is passionate about business entrepreneurship and innovation.
But like millions of youth in Africa and beyond, no one noticed his hidden talent and potential.
That is, until recently.
The turning point was when African Leadership University saw his KnackApp talent profile and offered him admission to its BA program in Entrepreneurship.
Mwikisa soon moved to Kigali, Rwanda, to start a whole new life chapter—and build his future.
But that was not all.
Looking at his KnackApp profile, African Leadership University chose Mwikisa for the prestigious Mandela Scholarship.
Named in honor of Nelson Mandela, this scholarship gives the opportunity to 100 outstanding young Africansfrom disadvantaged backgrounds to attend ALU.
That’s when Mwikisa sent us this text message—
Mwikisa is doing great at African Leadership University, as he acquires new skills and builds strong foundations for a bright future—a bright future for himself, for his community, and for the Continent.
👇This picture tells the story best.
Mwikisa’s journey is story of inspiration.
It’s a story of how life could change for the better.
It’s a story of hope.
But it’s also a story of bold innovation and the new digital age.
Most of all, it’s a story of a new world where pathways to the future and nonlinear opportunities are not only within reach, but are actually accessible to people from all walks of life, no matter their circumstances, anywhere around the world.
This new digital world offers the promise of extraordinary impact at unprecedented scale.
It’s why we love Mwikisa’s story so much.
And it’s why we wanted to share it with you.
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A link between 🎓Harvard 📗Harry Potter & 🎨Van Gogh?
Dec 9
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Read here.
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Information is the key. Plain and simple. It’s all about information. But any information won’t do it, for it must be quality information. So he…
How to get one (giant) step ahead of others?
Will Geiger
Dec 11
Information is the key.
Plain and simple. It’s all about information.
But any information won’t do it, for it must be quality information.
So here’s how you can think about it.
Any quality information that gives you an information advantage that provides you with new insights, enables sound decisions, and leads to bold actions will put you in a superior position relative to others (who don’t have that information about you, or themselves).
This applies to people and businesses alike.
So what should you do?
Obtain information about hidden skills. Find out your hidden skills as well as the hidden skills of your employees, especially those rank and file employees who are off your company’s “radar”
Make decisions on how to use and leverage these skills to achieve personal and business goals
Leap to action
And in case you’re asking, well, no, this is not a one-off thing.
Think of it as a repteable, iterative process.
The more you do it, the farther you go.
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New research, published in Nature Human Behavior, offers striking insights. The negativity bias is a bias in making social judgements of how we believe ‘they’ see ‘our’ behavior. In other words, people not only have stereotypes of what other people are like, they also have stereotypes of
🔔This newly discovered bias drives conflict at work (...and beyond)
Dec 13
New research, published in Nature Human Behavior, offers striking insights.
The negativity bias is a bias in making social judgements of how we believe ‘they’ see ‘our’ behavior.
In other words, people not only have stereotypes of what other people are like, they also have stereotypes of what other people believe about them.
People tend to attribute “as negative as possible” beliefs to the other side, be it a fellow worker, their boss, another team, or another company.
As a result, even though people are much more willing to work together, they resist trying because they think those on the other side—and even those within their own group—will not play along.
These biased beliefs shape behavior and contribute to conflict.
There’s a silver lining, however.
The negativity bias arises in competitive settings, but not in cooperative contexts.
And this provides an avenue for reducing its negative effects:
“In the context of teams or negotiations, adopting a competitive mindset can lead to undue pessimism about how others feel. These inaccurate beliefs can lead to missed business opportunities. But if those contexts are reframed as cooperative, accurately forecasting how someone across the table might respond to a particular proposal becomes easier.”
The takeaway?
Make people aware of this bias
Reframe the context to de-bias and reduce inaccurate judgments
Open mindedness and Coachability are critical skills in collaborating and achieving results
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CEO departures spiked this year to higher levels than ever before. This massive change-of-guards swept through every business sector. Digital. Technology. Insurance. Banking. Travel. Retail. Food. And others. As a result, significant swaths of the economy are now led by new leaders.
Which type of CEO is better?
Dec 14
CEO departures spiked this year to higher levels than ever before.
This massive change-of-guards swept through every business sector.
Digital. Technology. Insurance. Banking. Travel. Retail. Food. And others.
As a result, significant swaths of the economy are now led by new leaders.
As businesses go through massive leadership turnover, one question becomes critical.
What type of CEO works best for these companies?
In other words, do companies hire the right CEOs?
New research published in the Journal of Financial Economics offers invaluable actionable insights—for technology companies as well as for non-tech companies transforming into tech-enabled digital businesses.
The research looked at the CEOs leading U.S. high-technology firms.
Turns out that one in five of U.S. high-technology firms are led by CEOs with hands-on innovation experience as inventors.
The key finding shows that companies led by “Innovation CEOs” produce higher quality innovation, generate a greater number of higher-value patents in the domains where the CEO’s experience lies, and deliver stronger business performance.
And in case you wondered, this impact is not a matter of correlation but actually one of causation.
In other words, it’s about the CEO.
The reason is Innovation CEOs have superior skills that enable them to better identify, evaluate, select and execute innovative investment projects and strategy.
What’s the takeaway, then?
Executive leadership in the innovation economy must focus on executing innovation and must have strong innovation skills
As every company must transform itself into a tech-enabled, digital-oriented business, putting an Innovation CEO at the helm is critical to their future
Larger companies face the most urgent need for Innovation CEOs because of the negative relationship between size and innovation
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Open this email to find out You’ve got a certain type of exceptional talent. Everyone does. That’s what our global data shows. But you probably don’t know what it is, or where it lies. It’s time to change this—and find out. Because, as Picasso put it, “The meaning of life is to find your gift
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Dec 16
You’ve got a certain type of exceptional talent.
Everyone does. That’s what our global data shows.
But you probably don’t know what it is, or where it lies.
It’s time to change this—and find out.
Because, as Picasso put it,
“The meaning of life is to find your gift
The purpose of life is to give it away”
Finding your exceptional (hidden) talent allows you to acquire new skills that enable you in turn to make significant impact in the world.
Impact on your own life—as well as on the lives of (many) others.
Think of it this way.
Talent and skills are tools for solving problems and achieving goals.
The bigger the problems, the bigger the impact.
Finding your exceptional talent is a means to that end.
And all you need to do is take the first step.
Your impact will follow.
It’s basic physics.
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A leading German magazine just featured one of the fundamental innovations KnackApp brought to market. Here’s what they said. What are my strengths? An app has the answer for you. Using smartphone games, KnackApp helps jobseekers pinpoint their strengths and map their career directions. This app enables “Predictive Career Planning”.
Predictive career planning, on your mobile
Dec 17
A leading German magazine just featured one of the fundamental innovations KnackApp brought to market.
Here’s what they said.
What are my strengths?
An app has the answer for you.
Using smartphone games, KnackApp helps jobseekers pinpoint their strengths and map their career directions.
This app enables “Predictive Career Planning”.
Indeed, we think smartphone-enabled personalized career planning is a game-changer.
Here’s why.
Most young people today “fly in the dark” when it comes to planning and preparing for their future.
They just don’t know.
They don’t have quality information.
And that means they make poor decisions that keep them behind.
But that’s not all.
Millions of young people — including in the world’s richest countries — live in poor and unskilled households and face various forms of social injustice.
These individuals face a vicious disadvantage, even though they have indistinguishable human potential to those growing up in comfortable or privileged circumstances.
This systemic disadvantage contributes to increasing economic and social inequality, and to keeping vast swaths of the world’s emerging populations behind.
This is just unfair, and unacceptable.
And we must change it.
It’s why Meghan Markle recently sat with one of our users in South Africa, as she put the spotlight on the incredible impact of digital innovation.
It’s why KnackApp gives people the guidance they need — personalized, useful, practical, and actionable — to help them map the opportunities and make good decisions, predictively and confidently.
The takeaway?
We need to harness the extraordinary reach and unprecedented unit economics of digital and mobile innovation in order to on-ramp people, anywhere, onto pathways to learning, skilling, working, leading, innovating, creating and building.
That will make all the difference.
📬Get in touch at info@knackapp.com
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Finding and identifying talent and potential used to cost a lot. The cost included time and money. Yet, a high cost of identifying talent and potential creates a huge problem. It carries immediate as well as long-term consequences that affect businesses, people, schools, communities, and countries.
It costs a fraction of what it used to...
Dec 18
Finding and identifying talent and potential used to cost a lot.
The cost included time and money.
Yet, a high cost of identifying talent and potential creates a huge problem.
It carries immediate as well as long-term consequences that affect businesses, people, schools, communities, and countries.
It affects the rate of economic opportunity and social inequality.
It even affects political restlessness, as Arab Spring protests and outpouring youth anger showed all too well.
Here is why.
When the cost of something is high, you just can’t ‘consume’ much of it.
You can’t get all you want or need, even though it’s available in abundance.
Some even get priced out and can’t afford it altogether.
As a result, the demand for talent and potential gets capped to levels that don’t reflect true private sector needs.
And that means that businesses and schools could only reach and identify a fraction of the talent that’s available around the world.
While the rest remains hidden. And disenfranchised.
All that has changed, however.
The cost of finding and identifying talent and potential is now a mere fraction of what it used to be.
It’s take a fraction of the time and a fraction of the cost it used to.
And when the cost goes down, so do barriers.
Demand increases. Along with ‘consumption.’
And more ‘suppliers’ seek to enter the market and signal their ‘offering.’
This virtuous cycle makes the market grow and expand.
Just think of what this means.
We’ve reached a point where business and society can identify the world’s incredible bounty of talent and human potential.
For example…
47m kids and youth in Brazil can be connected to pathways to the future.
60m kids and youth in Nigeria can be on-ramped to learning and work.
300,000 minority youth in Chicago can get access to opportunity.
The list goes on, but you see where it’s going.
Technology innovation enabled this breakthrough.
We think it’s a game changer.
And it’s just the beginning.
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The Financial Times just named Satya Nadella its person of the year. It’s a smart choice. Here’s why. Beyond the fact that Nadella led Microsoft on a massive transformation into a cloud technology company, he also instilled an enviable culture. A culture defined by
Satya Nadella, Microsoft, Super Learners
Dec 19
The Financial Times just named Satya Nadella its person of the year.
It’s a smart choice.
Here’s why.
Beyond the fact that Nadella led Microsoft on a massive transformation into a cloud technology company, he also instilled an enviable culture.
A culture defined by learning.
Admitting it was “a hard thing” to do, Nadella says:
“We have set aside some of our classic know-it-all behaviour to at least start the journey, culturally, to say, ‘We’d better become learn-it-alls.’”
We think Nadella — and Microsoft — are a compelling role model that’s worth paying attention to.
Learning is the x-factor of the skills economy.
It’s a single variable that has significant impact on personal and business outcomes in the new economy.
In its simplest format, learning is about acquiring new information.
A learning mindset means you’re constantly questioning things and open to new ideas and new ways of looking at the world.
Learning quality information gives you an information advantage.
This, in turn, provides you with new insights, enables smart decisions, and leads to bold actions that put you in a superior position relative to everyone else.
But learning alone is not enough.
Learning, by itself, confers an information advantage.
Learning skills and learning culture, however, provide a strategic advantage.
That’s because learning skills and culture are the sine qua non of innovation that enables people and companies to change and ‘future proof’ themselves and their business.
(Learning also fosters humility, as when you come to realize you don’t know it all!)
That’s why we’ve made learning the defining DNA of our startup:
🤔We don’t know how to do many of the things we need to get done, so we just go about learning and figuring those out
🤔We don’t know if what we want to do will actually work (and how), so we do it quickly in order to learn and find out
🤔We don’t know how the market is going to respond to new products we want to build, so we build them fast and release, and then learn from feedback
🤔We don’t always know who’s the best person on the team to work on something, which is why we keep our structure flexible and have team members try out many different things, learn, and find out what they do best
🤔We don’t know what we don’t know, but we learned that spontaneous, unplanned, serendipitous conversations are often the most useful—and unexpected—way to learn
The takeaway?
Super learners are critical
Finding them will set your business apart
Making them lead will propel your company to the future
📬Get in touch at info@knackapp.com
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Building a tech startup isn’t easy. Someone once told us (warned us, actually) that it’s like walking in a desert (🌵🏜pick your own desert) without water, without knowing how close the nearest town is, etc… Well… We think differently. (It’s also why we didn’t heed that warning😉)
What it's really like building a startup?
Dec 20
Building a tech startup isn’t easy.
Someone once told us (warned us, actually) that it’s like walking in a desert (🌵🏜pick your own desert) without water, without knowing how close the nearest town is, etc…
Well…
We think differently. (It’s also why we didn’t heed that warning😉)
A startup is a ride. For sure.
It’s a roaring rollercoaster ride. Intense and thrilling, packed with novel experiences.
It makes your heart go faster; the release of glucose gives you a constant energy boost.
(The data-craving folks among our readers will appreciate knowing that research shows heartbeats per minute more than double from an avg. of 70 beforehand to an avg. of 153 shortly after the ride begins.)
And still…
During the ride we don't think of the risks of the ride.
We don't think: what if the rollercoaster suddenly breaks, what if it crashes, what if the seatbelt somehow unbuckles, what if we drop our phones or lose our eyeglasses…
Instead of thinking ‘What if this or that happens?’, we go with ‘Imagine how awesome it’ll be when this great thing happens!”.
It’s a different mindset. A fundamentally different mindset.
We think of it as a winning mindset.
And, if you’re wondering, then, yes, the difference between a failure mindset and a winning mindset makes all the difference in the world.
This mindset causes all sorts of wonderful things…
It sets us free to think big and imagine.
It unshackles us from the constraints of logic and dogma.
It makes us laser-focused on the power of innovation.
And liberates us from the tyranny of a linear worldview.
It makes us double-down on our mission—and our long-term vision.
It biases us towards taking big, bold actions.
It helps us filter the noise, and listen closely to our internal voice.
It makes us stay away from negative people who have a problem for every solution.
It makes us come together as a team, because great things are never done alone.
It makes us push ourselves to be our best.
It makes us want to soak knowledge like a sponge.
It makes us do everything we can.
It makes us act.
And it also makes us impatient, because there’s never quite enough time.
This mindset is a constant reminder that we can’t achieve anything extraordinary by playing it safe.
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This huge shakeup is redefining the talent landscape.
🔔The New Talent: Unschooled but Highly Professional
Will Geiger
Jan 3
This huge shakeup is redefining the talent space. Read on.
Most companies that look to hire professionals focus on college-educated people.
Their thinking being that college is what inducts people into the professionaltalent pool.
This line of thinking dominates in virtually every field.
In business, banking, finance, insurance, media, communications, software, education, and more.
But this way of thinking is outdated—and wrong!
And sticking to it will cost you dearly.
That’s because the talent landscape is changing so rapidly, emerging as a fundamentally new skills-as-a-service market.
Here’s what we actually see:
Young Africans picking skills through YouTube (yes!)
Young Indians developing valuable skills through local meetups and hackathons (and picking tips and experience notes from mentors)
Young Americans acquiring skills through digital courses
Young Asians consuming every piece of information they can find on the web
How ever they go about it, they become super professional at what they do, whatever it is they happen to do.
This means that the path to becoming a professional doesn’t (have to) pass through formal schooling anymore.
There’s a different path, with multiple pathways.
And that’s a big shake-up to the landscape.
So whether you’re a business manager, recruiter, guidance counselor, educator, skill trainer, or parent, this skills revolution has key implications for you:
How and where you find future talent is changing
Learning is the x-factor of personal success in the skills-and-learning economy
Acquiring skills also comes with invaluable hands-on experience
This new world redefines talent.
And that makes all the difference in the world.
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Money makes the world go round. But skills make the economy work. Skills are the units that make up talent. Skills are the currency that enables business to make things, create value and grow. And, yet, while people everywhere from all economic backgrounds have valuable skills employers need, they can’t signal their skills.
What's in Your Wallet?
Feb 6
Money makes the world go round.
But skills make the economy work.
Skills are the units that make up talent.
Skills are the currency that enables business to make things, create value and grow.
And, yet, while people everywhere from all economic backgrounds have valuable skills employers need, they can’t signal their skills.
The tools of the past can’t provide the solutions we need to make the skills economy work at the right scale and speed.
Those tools don’t ‘translate.’ They don’t scale. They’re too expensive. They’re fraught with friction. They create barriers. And they exclude massive segments of the global talent pool.
The new skills-as-a-service economy requires novel solutions that enable people and businesses to interact and transact like never before.
We need innovative infrastructure that supports the future of families, the future of work, and the future of learning.
That’s why we’ve built our new product.
The Skill Wallet.
The Skill Wallet is a universal system for storing, accumulating, broadcasting and transacting your talent.
The Wallet includes your certified, data-computed skills (and much more).
The Wallet enables frictionless talent transactions: from discovery, recruiting and hiring to learning, leadership and development.
But there’s way more.
Our Wallet also allows service providers, schools, colleges, and employers to recommend and personalize learning, skilling, re-skilling, gigs, work and other experiences.
We’ve designed the Wallet to serve families and kids, youth, students, adult workers, freelancers, managers and leaders in the market as well as inside organizations.
We’ll be sharing more product details in the coming weeks.
Stay tuned.
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Consumers expect companies to innovate. It’s the new constant. And in a constantly connected world with a rapid flow of information, this consumer expectation is more firmly rooted and more consequential to business than at any time before. It’s why innovation has become the ticket to the future that differentiates the brands of today from the brands of the future.
🌶How to hack innovation?
Will Geiger
Jan 9
Consumers expect companies to innovate.
It’s the new constant.
And in a constantly connected world with a rapid flow of information, this consumer expectation is more firmly rooted and more consequential to business than at any time before.
It’s why innovation has become the ticket to the future that differentiates the brands of today from the brands of the future.
It’s also why companies constantly look for better ways to jumpstart their innovation output.
So why do so many companies struggle with innovating?
The key to hacking innovation is to reframe innovation as a skills-and-talent problem.
Insufficient innovation, in other words, is a talent problem.
Nobel prize laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi once said that —
“Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.”
Observing what everyone sees but being able to identify needs, gaps and opportunities is more likely to happen if you have certain skills and talents.
Coming up with never-been-thought-before ideas is more likely to happen if you have certain skills and talents.
Turning ideas and concepts into projects and products is more likely to happen if you have certain skills and talents.
Innovation is about talent and skills.
Find and gather the right talent, and you’re already one big step ahead of your competition.
The good news is that big companies have abundant talent.
The bad news is they don’t know who has the knack for innovation.
This, in turn—
Handicaps their ability to uncover talent across the organization
Limits their ability to surface creative ideas
Undermines their innovation pipeline
The takeaway?
Make it your goal to uncover people with the knack for innovation.
Keep in mind that as the world shifts to skills and away from expertise, your potential talent pool is way larger than ever before.
Do that and your innovation outcomes will improve in leaps and bounds.
It’s your turn now.
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Mismanaged career aspirations and misinformed career choices lead young people onto the wrong paths
🚨Career bubbles are a looming crisis
Mismanaged career aspirations and misinformed career choices lead young people onto the wrong paths
Will Geiger
Jan 22
A new survey by Education & Employers, a UK labor market organization, shows that many students have highly limited aspirations or wildly unrealistic ones in terms of their desired career paths.
Extreme, misinformed expectations undermine the best possible futures for the next generation.
This is why informing and forming career expectations and choices is critical for both individuals and countries.
The survey identified several key problems that contribute to this crisis.
First, gender stereotypes shape aspirations: boys aspire for careers in traditionally viewed as male occupations (eg, engineers), while girls aspire for those traditionally viewed as female occupations (eg, teachers).
Second, students’ aspirations and career choices are strongly influenced by family and friends. Out-of-date family expectations, detached from fast-changing labor market realities and practicalities, negatively shape and limit career aspirations.
Third, social media contributes to forming unrealistic expectations. A recent American survey shows, for example, that upwards of 86% of people ages 13 to 38 want to become a social media influencer on Instagram, YouTube, etc!
Mismanaged career aspirations and misinformed career choices lead young people onto the wrong paths.
And, as a recent PISA survey shows, poor people are penalized more severely.
The consequences not only shape the lives of the younger generation — but also dampen the economic development of countries and their socioeconomic gaps.
What’s the solution to this looming crisis?
Keeping up with the fast-changing job landscape of the digital, knowledge-based skills economy requires a fundamentally new approach to career guidance and management:
It should not be limited to the rich; young people from any socioeconomic background should have access to this information
It should inform people of the range of possibilities, not limit their aspirations
It should dismantle gender-related stereotypes, removing these from the equation altogether
It should provide individuals with realistic, userful, and actionable guidance
It should help young people match individuals with the most effective opportunities to realize and fulfill well-informed choices
This is exactly why we’re ever so excited about our upcoming product launch.
Stay tuned!
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Virtually every major company that contacts us wants to find future leadership talent. We tell them (well, actually, we show them) that extraordinary leadership talent is hidden everywhere. We explain that this is a big strategic opportunity for them.
💘How to find future leadership talent?
Will Geiger
Jan 17
Virtually every major company that contacts us wants to find future leadership talent.
We tell them (well, actually, we show them) that extraordinary leadership talent is hidden everywhere.
We explain that this is a big strategic opportunity for them.
That they can find people with the right skill stacks for leadership that other companies can’t.
That future leaders don’t have to come (exclusively, mostly, or at all) from elite colleges.
That the future is not about searching, but about discovering talent.
And, finally…
That advanced AI helps us ensure they find the best leadership talent for their own organization.
In the digital skills economy, business advantage is the result of getting an information advantage that gets you to the best talent.
📬Get in touch at info@knackapp.com
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What do families actually want? Families everywhere — in Sao Paulo, Santiago and San Francisco, in London, Lagos and Lahore, and in Munich, Mumbai and Manila — are united by the single aspiration of helping their children build their best possible economic future.
Families
Feb 5
What do families actually want?
Families everywhere — in Sao Paulo, Santiago and San Francisco, in London, Lagos and Lahore, and in Munich, Mumbai and Manila — are united by the single aspiration of helping their children build their best possible economic future.
This universal aspiration is deeply rooted in the human psyche, and in our evolutionary biology. We’re wired this way.
But the advent of the digital revolution has seriously shaken many parents and families worldwide as they come to witness their workskills become wholly inadequate — or utterly useless.
The threat of unemployment and economic insecurity affects millions of working adults worldwide, making their future prospects a constant, visceral and existential worry.
Moreover, with massive upheaval everywhere, parents fret their children might never be able to build and own their own future.
The economic implications for people and society can’t be greater, as the expected impact on poverty rates, social polarization, rising anger levels, and global economic slowdown is truly profound.
The tools of the past won’t do; we can’t use them to solve these new problems at the scale and speed we need to.
We need a new paradigm and a new set of scalable solutions.
We must, therefore, harness the power of digital technology and leverage its massive mobile reach to enable and empower families, parents and their children to build and own their future — on their own terms.
Stay tuned for details in our upcoming announcements.
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Millions of youth worldwide are feeling totally hopeless about their future. They worry they won’t be able to earn and live securely. They’re anxious they don’t have control or ownership over their future (not to mention owning a home). This deep sense of hopelessness breeds anger and anxiety, producing cycles of despair that put people on the slippery slope that leads them to the rock bottom.
Democratizing the Future
Feb 3
Millions of youth worldwide are feeling totally hopeless about their future.
They worry they won’t be able to earn and live securely.
They’re anxious they don’t have control or ownership over their future (not to mention owning a home).
This deep sense of hopelessness breeds anger and anxiety, producing cycles of despair that put people on the slippery slope that leads them to the rock bottom.
This reality is unsustainable, and is manifestly unfair.
Unless we alter this trajectory, large segments of the next generation will not be able to support themselves, nor build meaningful lives.
It will have a devastating effect on the world’s future economic growth, too.
Changing this reality is critical.
Correcting the course is crucial.
We must unleash the powers of digital technology and mobile reach to empower people to build and own their future.
We must democratize the future.
Anything short of that just won’t do.
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Mobile is key to the coming reskilling revolution
🚗 🚕 🚙 Electric Cars Drive Massive Job Losses
Mobile is key to the coming reskilling revolution
Knack
Jan 23
Electric cars are reshaping the car industry like never before.
First, electric engines are made of fewer parts that require less maintenance than combustion engines.
Second, vehicle production is reaching higher than ever levels of automation.
The result is massive layoffs.
In 2018, employment in the car industry in Germany reached 834,000.
The picture is changing faster than we can notice.
The rapid shift to electric mobility is driving massive layoffs of traditional automotive workers.
Today, Handelsblatt, the German daily business newspaper, reported that—
The shift to electric vehicles could cost 410,000 jobs in Germany by 2030.
Nasdaq recently reported that—
While Forbes reported that—
According to Fortune magazine—
And Bloomberg added that—
In the UK, The Guardian reported that—
And on CNN we read that—
The message is crystal clear.
Change is afoot.
The upheaval brought about by technology innovation is eating jobs and displacing workers whose skills are all but obsolete.
We actually warned about the shrinking half-life of skills, as Accenture reported:
Angela Merkel’s dispirited expression doesn’t bode well for the future of German workers—and for the future of car industry workers worldwide.
But this massive change — and its large-scale displacement — goes far beyond the car industry.
The World Economic Forum predicts that upwards of 1 billion workers will need to be reskilled within the next five years!
Technology innovation is redefining and reshaping skills stocks for the knowledge-based skills economy.
What, then, should be done about it? And who should be doing what?
Our message is straightforward.
We need to use the awesome power of digital technology and mobile devices to revolutionize reskilling and to enable retraining — at web scale.
Enabling people to rebuild and refresh their skill stacks requires the following:
Making reskilling and career guidance accessible to anyone, anywhere
Informing people of the range of pathways most suitable for them
Providing individuals with realistic, userful, and actionable insights
Matching individuals with the most effective learning & skilling pathways
Enabling people to signal their skills and enabling businesses to discover these signals
We’re hard at work building our next generation platform.
We’ll be announcing more details very soon.
Stay tuned!!
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The Financial Times had a recent piece on women and careers. Here’s a small bit. In the 1970s when social historian Jane Robinson was at school, British girls were offered just four paths to fill up the time between leaving education and getting married: “secretary, nurse, teacher — and hairdresser”.
Women
Feb 4
The Financial Times had a recent piece on women and careers.
Here’s a small bit.
In the 1970s when social historian Jane Robinson was at school, British girls were offered just four paths to fill up the time between leaving education and getting married: “secretary, nurse, teacher — and hairdresser”.
Robinson wanted to go to university, despite a discouraging careers adviser who advised her:
“A degree was no guarantee of job satisfaction, or even a job. Why bother?”
Women from all sorts of economic backgrounds fought for personal fulfilment and professional achievement.
Indeed, Robinson went on to study at Oxford and has published more than ten books, including one (not surprisingly, perhaps) on the adventures of the first professional women.
While Robinson was quite fortunate to have had the opportunity to unleash her potential, millions of girls and young women worldwide are still left behind.
Imagine what would happen if, say, 1M young African girls are given a chance to fulfill their inherent potential!
As we build our innovative mobile technology, we seek to democratize the future for all — and that also means giving young girls worldwide the opportunity to own their own future.
Stay tuned for our upcoming launch announcement.
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Don't have a degree? That’s not a problem anymore. But you'll need strong skills that deliver strong value. Anyone telling you otherwise might be out of touch with the future of work in the digital skills economy. So what should you do next? Find out the skills you need to get
"I don't have a degree and I make over $100,000 a year!"
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Don't have a degree?
That’s not a problem anymore.
But you'll need strong skills that deliver strong value.
Anyone telling you otherwise might be out of touch with the future of work in the digital skills economy.
So what should you do next?
Find out the skills you need to get.
It’s simple. And it’s in your hands, literally!!
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Innovation is the lifeline to the future. Where, then, are the world’s exceptionally talented people who will pioneer the major breakthroughs and create the technologies of the future that solve the most pressing problems? As Peter Thiel points out, we’ve got no shortage of research talent, but that’s not what we’re after.
Peter Thiel👉👉Where is the next generation of innovators?
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Innovation is the lifeline to the future.
Where, then, are the world’s exceptionally talented people who will pioneer the major breakthroughs and create the technologies of the future that solve the most pressing problems?
As Peter Thiel points out, we’ve got no shortage of research talent, but that’s not what we’re after.
What we’re after is extraordinary talent.
Specifically, we’re seeking the young people anywhere who have a ridiculous knack for radical innovation (even if they don’t know they have it!)
Many local and global initiatives, including the Intel Science Competition, the Society for Science and the Public, and the US Government’s National Science Foundation, invested billions of dollars in trying to find these people.
But the returns are limited — and incremental — and these initiatives can’t scale.
We need a fundamentally new approach.
Its unit economics must be ever so low that it can scale fast to the maximal frontier.
It must find and surface the world’s exceptional talent from a global pool of 1.2 billion youth.
That’s because these young people are hidden everywhere (as the data shows).
And because our future depends on them.
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The Atlantic Monthly published a piece on the future of work, and reached out to us to find out what we thought. Here’s a snippet of what we told The Atlantic— We’re starting to see a big shift. Employers are looking less at what you know and more at your hidden potential to learn new things.
👉The massive expertise-to-skills shift
Will Geiger
Jan 6
The Atlantic Monthly published a piece on the future of work, and reached out to us to find out what we thought.
Here’s a snippet of what we told The Atlantic—
We’re starting to see a big shift. Employers are looking less at what you know and more at your hidden potential to learn new things.
The expertise-to-skills-shift is happening.
It’s real.
And it’s a very big deal.
We see it everywhere, in every industry and business.
We believe this shift is inevitable (and also liberating and democratizing!) because it’s enabled by digital technology innovation.
It’s happening because, unlike before, we have today a better way to discover and identify human talent anywhere.
This new way focuses on massively available, quantifiable, certifiable, demonstrable and transmittable signals of skills as the new unit of talent.
This new skills-as-a-currency system provides a far better way (compared with the traditional poor and exclusionary proxies of credentials and expertise) to discover and transact human talent.
This skills-as-a-currency system is more efficient, more accurate, more insightful, more accessible and more inclusive way to identify and measure talent—and to predict where it can go and what it can do.
Go back in history and you’ll see that we used to think that any matter was made of a combination of earth, air, fire and water.
But that all changed with the introduction of the Periodic Table of the Elements, which opened up new horizons and opportunities.
A similar revolution is happening right now.
This time, however, the matter is talent.
The Fearless Girl, standing on the sidewalk in Wall Street, is the embodiment of the revolution that’s shaping the skills-and-learning economy — and of the big opportunities it brings along.
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Money makes the world go round, but skills make the economy work. Skills are the currency that enables business to create new products, deliver services, product business value — and grow. And, yet, while people from all economic backgrounds have valuable skills that employers need, they hit a wall when trying to signal their skills.
Skill Wallet, an upcoming product from KnackApp
Feb 14
Money makes the world go round, but skills make the economy work.
Skills are the currency that enables business to create new products, deliver services, product business value — and grow.
And, yet, while people from all economic backgrounds have valuable skills that employers need, they hit a wall when trying to signal their skills.
The tools of the past can’t provide the solutions we need to make the skills economy work.
These tools don’t scale. They’re too expensive. They’re fraught with friction. They create barriers. And they exclude massive segments of the global talent pool.
The new skills-as-a-service economy requires powerful solutions that enable people and businesses to interact, connect and transact skills like never before.
We need innovative digital infrastructure that supports the future of work, future of learning, and future of families.
That’s why we’ve built our new product.
We’re introducing our Skill Wallet —
The Skill Wallet is a universal system for identifying, acquiring, strengthening, storing, broadcasting, and transacting your skills and talent with the market.
The Wallet showcases AI-computed, scientifically-certifiedskills (and much more).
The Wallet enables frictionless talent transactions: from discovering skills anywhere, to identifying future innovators, recruiting and hiring, learning and skilling, collaboration and leadership, and more.
But there’s way more in store.
The Wallet enables service providers, schools, colleges and employers to personalizeand match people with learning, skilling, re-skilling, development, career planning, gigs, jobs, work projects, and other key experiences that make up the future of work.
We’ve designed the Wallet to serve families, youth, students, workers, freelancers, managers and leaders, anywhere.
We’ll be sharing more details in the next couple of weeks.
Stay tuned.
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Tech venture investors throughout the world are unified by their conservative operating model: find and invest in a business venture that you believe is promising. This traditional “business-first” model has been around for a very long time. It’s time to revisit and upend this model.
You''re an Investor
Sep 30
Tech venture investors throughout the world are unified by their conservative operating model: find and invest in a business venture that you believe is promising.
This traditional “business-first” model has been around for a very long time.
It’s time to revisit and upend this model.
Imagine.
What if it worked like this:
You find high potential brilliant people with promising minds for bold company-building innovations
You nurture and give them the support, ecosystem and opportunity to work on solving big problems
Pause and imagine how that will reshape the innovation-and-investment landscape in the US and beyond.
One more point.
Even if you’re not a VC, you’d want to think like an investor and invest in unlocking and unleashing the untapped human potential in your family, school, community, company and country.
Today, and in the future, everyone’s an investor—and should act as one.
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Don’t miss our forthcoming announcements; get our newsletter in your inbox. KnackApp entered into a strategic partnership with India’s national skilling agency. Skill development is a fundamental part of how modern economies work. As people 10 to 25 years-old make up the
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KnackApp entered into a strategic partnership with India’s national skilling agency.
Skill development is a fundamental part of how modern economies work.
As people 10 to 25 years-old make up the largest cohort of the world’s population, skills and career counseling and matching becomes an essential digital service every person and household need.
Making this smarter is critical for the future of people, the workforce, and inclusive growth in every economy.
It’s the dawn of digital skill-and-career counseling: Our innovative technology enables large-scale skill counseling and continuous matching to training and jobs as people move across the skilling spectrum and their job journeys.
Skills are the currency of the future of work.
As part of the Government of India’s nationwide skilling strategy, this partnership aims to make KnackApp’s AI-powered gamified mobile technology a key element of India’s future skilling ecosystem, including:
Providing KnackApp skill-and-career counseling to skill-seekers across India
Introducing KnackApp to eSkillIndia user-base and providers
Matching young Indians with the right skilling, learning, and jobs they need
Using KnackApp meta-level data analytics for government-level labor market planning
India is undertaking the world’s largest digital skilling transformation. This is why this strategic partnership represents a massive opportunity on multiple levels in one of the world’s key growth markets.
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Coronavirus has shocked labor markets and the way we work. Post-Covid19 labor market requires therefore a whole new way of looking at talent. Companies must zero in on the work ahead, and the specific future skills they need to succeed. Rigid and formal mindsets are getting replaced by flexible and personalized approaches to talent and workforce.
Product Alert: Skill Store Mix-&-Match
Nov 12
Coronavirus has shocked labor markets and the way we work.
Post-Covid19 labor market requires therefore a whole new way of looking at talent.
Companies must zero in on the work ahead, and the specificfuture skills they need to succeed.
Rigid and formal mindsets are getting replaced by flexible and personalized approaches to talent and workforce.
Ask yourself what are the critical mandates your company faces now and in the near future, and what skills your company needs in order to achieve these business goals.
Consider the job, the team, the setting, the way people are expected to do their work, the business velocity you want to achieve, the uncertainty all around, and much more.
After all, you know your company best.
Then, go to theSkill Store to mix and match and create the special skill packages you need to succeed.
The Skill Store is not just a virtual store.
It’s a whole new way of managing talent.
It’s the new paradigm for success in the post-Covid19 market for talent.
Don’t stay behind. Go check it out.
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Think about your future. Have you reached your frontier? Do you even know what your frontier looks like? Can you imagine the possibilities that lie ahead? In reality… Most people have no idea about their own frontiers. Parents have no idea about their children’s frontiers.
Future Frontier
Dec 3
Think about your future.
Have you reached your frontier?
Do you even know what your frontier looks like?
Can you imagine the possibilities that lie ahead?
In reality…
Most people have no idea about their own frontiers.
Parents have no idea about their children’s frontiers.
Managers have no idea of their employees’ own frontiers.
Teachers, too, are flying in the dark about their students’ frontiers.
The list goes on…
But you don’t have to accept a clueless future.
Find your Frontier.
Make it your task.
Think of a pie, like the one below.
And imagine you’ve just had a tiny small slice.
You have so much more talent and potential.
Take your first step now.
Don’t delay your future.
FIND YOUR FUTURE FRONTIER
UNLOCK YOUR KIDS'' FUTURE FRONTIER
HELP YOUR EMPLOYEES REACH THEIR FRONTIER
HELP STUDENTS REACH THEIR FRONTIER
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One of the key lessons the world is already taking away from the SARS-CoV2 pandemic outbreak is the urgent need for smart and bold innovation to help humanity cope with this and potentially other public health crises. We’re coming to realize the acute need for more innovation in healthcare service delivery; life sciences, including immunology, virology and serology; crisis management and supply chain management; and in many other fields.
New technology for a new world
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One of the key lessons the world is already taking away from the SARS-CoV2 pandemic outbreak is the urgent need for smart and bold innovation to help humanity cope with this and potentially other public health crises.
We’re coming to realize the acute need for more innovation in healthcare service delivery; life sciences, including immunology, virology and serology; crisis management and supply chain management; and in many other fields.
But the need for ramping up (and targeting) the global innovation throughput goes far beyond healthcare. We need innovative solutions that deal with plastic pollution, water scarcity, food shortages, wildfires, climate change, and other looming crises.
The stakes can’t be higher.
The message on the wall can’t get any clearer.
But solving for this challenge is not an overnight effort; but one that calls for a macro, programmatic and scalable approach.
At its core, this global challenge centers on unlocking extraordinary human talent and on pushing the frontiers of human potential.
This is exactly where the forthcoming next-generation KnackApp platform comes into play, and where it’ll change the game.
More specifically, our upcoming release includes our newest game (sneak peek below).
This awesome and challenging new mobile game is designed to identify extreme human potential.
This mobile human potential “detector” is built for massive access by any person, anywhere — boys and girls, men and women, young or old, educated or not, skilled or unskilled, rural or urban, privileged or disadvantaged — over any mobile device.
This game, and the new platform we’re about to release, are part of the bold innovation we’re bringing to market to solve some of the most pressing social and economic challenges of our times (more on this later).
Stay tuned. We’ll share more very soon.
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Everything we was used to do pre-Covid has changed, especially how we recruit, interview, screen, evaluate and hire future talent. How do you identify high-potential talent in a virtually-virtual world? How do you obtain a deep sense of who your candidate is and what s/he can do?
Remotely hiring your future workers
Sep 12
Everything we was used to do pre-Covid has changed, especially how we recruit, interview, screen, evaluate and hire future talent.
How do you identify high-potential talent in a virtually-virtual world?
How do you obtain a deep sense of who your candidate is and what s/he can do?
How do you give candidates a higring experience that’s appealing and positive?
And how do you do all this without the intensive in-person interaction (on campus, at the office)?
These are key challenges for the new world of talent.
Stay tuned for what’s coming next week.
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Check out our new digital platform, solutions and prices ($4.99). For additional information, these pages are highly recommended: People at play (worldwide gallery) How it works Case studies and research Innovation awards Our story Connect with us to stay on top of what’s coming.
New platform released
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Check out our new digital platform, solutions and prices ($4.99).
Take a look
For additional information, these pages are highly recommended:
People at play (worldwide gallery)
How it works
Case studies and research
Innovation awards
Our story
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We hear of so many companies that won’t go back to the way they used to work just six months ago. For them, office work is history. It’s gone. Our collective, forced attachment to offices has now been severed by a deep mindset fault line. What, then, is the future of the office? And how does it work into the future of work?
The Cloud Office & The Future of Work
Sep 15
We hear of so many companies that won’t go back to the way they used to work just six months ago. For them, office work is history. It’s gone.
Our collective, forced attachment to offices has now been severed by a deep mindset fault line.
What, then, is the future of the office? And how does it work into the future of work?
Network Effects of Offices
Like many other things in life, working in offices is a phenomenon that’s subject to network effects.
Meaning, coming to work in a near-empty office is very different from coming to work in an office that’s teeming with people and activity.
Offices full with people present the opportunity for more face-to-face collaboration and spontaneous social interaction where ideation and innovations can emerge; but that also comes at a cost in the form of lower overall staff productivity (the result of, eg, commuting time, distractions, noise, etc).
Your Office, In The Cloud
The very near future will bring many more digital innovations that shift the office to the cloud.
Many of the tasks that used to be performed in offices will be done, more efficiently and more successfully, in the cloud using cloud-hosted tools and services that not only mimic office environments and its interpersonal dynamics, but which also design and deliver novel experiences that can only be mediated through digital technology.
Imagine, for one example, the ability to identify and pull collaborators, experts and future customers in real time into a shared space.
Technology will enable us to unshackle our tethering to offices. It’ll be liberating, empowering, collaborative, connected, convenient, efficient, and productive — and will change the way we work and do business in a deep and fundamental way.
Function Over Form
But there’s more to this shift because offices, at least until now, enabled some degree of spontaneous exchange of information and unplanned professional interaction — which have largely positive effects as well as potentially negative effects (eg, group think, bias).
The momentum towards the office in the cloud is in conflict with the potential benefits of bringing people together into a common, shared professional working space.
We believe this momentum won’t stop. Rather, it’s quickly becoming the new normal, at least in certain economies and for certain occupations.
Instead of curbing this momentum, the potential benefits of bringing people together into a common, shared professional working space will require companies — meaning, their leaders as well as their current and future employees — to think hard about when and how to go for these benefits.
In other words, this creates an invaluable opportunity to look at the functional purpose an office space might serve, rather than the knee-jerk view of considering the office as the form for doing work.
Different companies may “pick” different points on the cloud-to-office spectrum.
However you look at that, the office of the future and the future of work are becoming a continuum that changes our collective acceptance of and openness to new modalities of work. And that’s an overall good thing.
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Here is what it looks like when you give kids a chance of a lifetime to play games & unlock their hidden potential. It doesn’t get any better than that. It doesn’t get more promising than that. Can you now re-imagine how the education ecosystem will look like when it’s powered and personalized to
What it looks like?
Aug 28
Here is what it looks like when you give kids a chance of a lifetime to play games & unlock their hidden potential.
It doesn’t get any better than that.
It doesn’t get more promising than that.
Can you now re-imagine how the education ecosystem will look like when it’s powered and personalized to maximize the hidden potential of people and populations?
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Transforming business and consumer services through AI and data.
KnackApp
Jun 8
People and business are always looking to become (more) successful.
The demand for consumer and business success is the reason why many B2B and B2C industries, products and services exist.
But these highly fragmented industries severely lag behind on using the power of live data to project, recommend and determine the most effective paths to success.
At KnackApp, we focus on maximizing the personal and business value of the world’s most valuable asset — human skills — through data, discovery, search, and matching.
We built the next generation KnackApp platform to transform consumer and business success, and to enable a whole host of products and services to incorporate the data needed to make their solutions effective and relevant.
Stay tuned as we’re about to release the new KnackApp platform.
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The economic ‘operating system’ changes rapidly, changing in turn the skills the economy needs to operate and the skills people need to earn a living. In 2010, demand was high for HTML programming. In 2020, it’s Python and JavaScript. Ubiquitous change patterns.
Here''s the answer to the biggest problem everyone faces
Aug 30
The economic ‘operating system’ changes rapidly, changing in turn the skills the economy needs to operate and the skills people need to earn a living.
In 2010, demand was high for HTML programming.
In 2020, it’s Python and JavaScript.
Ubiquitous change patterns.
The economic ‘operating system’ is continuing to evolve. Just like our mobile ones.
This change pattern isn’t going to stop. To the contrary.
This pattern isn’t limited to the tech industry, either. It applies across industries and businesses.
The key point.
Education is not the future. Skill training is.
Skill training is fundamental for the economy and for businesses to work.
Upskilling is critical for people so they can continue to earn a living.
It’s misguided to look at the future in terms of career switching; it’s more constructive to think in terms of skill switching.
Now let’s extrapolate.
Apply these patterns at the level of families, communities, cities, countries and the young adult world population as a whole.
India alone, home to the world’s largest youth population, has 333 million young adults who need get skilled (and then re-skilled, upskilled, and so on).
What, and how.
How does any person figure out what skills to get, and how?
How do businesses figure this out for employees?
How do countries figure it out for people?
How do we make this happen at scale?
It’s all about the future—the future of people, families, communities and countries.
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After months of nonstop hard work, we’re finally ready to release the world’s pioneering social platform for success in the digital economy. Our platform is built for skills, designed for success, and engineered for the future. We’ll be sharing the official website very soon.
A big win
KnackApp
Jul 22
After months of nonstop hard work, we’re finally ready to release the world’s pioneering social platform for success in the digital economy.
Our platform is built for skills, designed for success, and engineered for the future.
We’ll be sharing the official website very soon.
Meantime, here’s a sneak peek of Match, one of the new products on the platform.
Stay tuned, more’s coming.
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We’re just a couple of days away from releasing the next generation KnackApp. It’s our biggest and boldest release, ever. Here’s a sneak peek from what’s coming up. Here’s a screen from one of our new (and quite addictive) games, KnackKnackGo! It’s designed and built to discover extreme future potential, anywhere.
Don''t miss what''s coming up
KnackApp
Jun 25
We’re just a couple of days away from releasing the next generation KnackApp.
It’s our biggest and boldest release, ever.
Here’s a sneak peek from what’s coming up.
Here’s a screen from one of our new (and quite addictive) games, KnackKnackGo!
It’s designed and built to discover extreme future potential, anywhere.
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14.6%. It’s the percentage of young Americans in the 18-25 years old age group suffering from anxiety right now. This figure doubled since 2008. Anxiety is increasing most rapidly (and consistently among sociodemographic groups) for those in the 18-25 age group with
14.6%
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14.6%.
It’s the percentage of young Americans in the 18-25 years old age group suffering from anxiety right now. This figure doubled since 2008.
Anxiety is increasing most rapidly (and consistently among sociodemographic groups) for those in the 18-25 age group with some college education.
But that’s not the full story.
25%.
Of young Americans aged 18-24 years, 1 in 4 reported they have seriously considered suicide this June.
Suicide thoughts was significantly higher among Hispanics, Blacks, and essential workers (who’re mostly minorities).
Brace for the Pandemic-of-Pessimism.
Young adults, on the cusp of launching working lives, are affected the most from anxiety-provoking world trends and events, particularly higher uncertainty over securing work and skills, and — most recently — the impact of Covid.
The potential impact is horrible.
Imagine the consequences if 25% of this age group remains unskilled, unemployed, unproductive — and disconnected from society!
The cumulative negative effect on these individuals, their families, their communities, and the economy at large is worse than Covid’s.
True, this crisis started before Covid.
But, as with other matters, it’s been made far worse.
The Future?
Securing a decent future for people and societies depends crucially on our ability to innovate and solve a broad range of critical problems. Education, skilling, work, and livelihoods are key such problems.
The true silver lining, though, is these young individuals are the solution.
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📣Attention all colleges! Tap the power of play and the magic of games to help your remote and on-campus incoming and existing students become successful. Engage them with the next generation KnackApp to help them: 1 - Identify their most promising academic majors and directions
📣Attention all colleges
KnackApp
Jul 30
📣Attention all colleges!
Tap the power of play and the magic ofgames to help your remote and on-campus incoming and existing students become successful.
Engage them with the next generation KnackAppto help them:
1 - Identify their most promising academic majors and directions
2 - Map and explore their best fit professional career paths, including management and entrepreneurship
3 - Discover their hidden strengths and career potential
4 - Instantly connect with employers
5 - Get their Skill Wallets to showcase their true talent and potential
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We hear from many people and organizations around the world who want to use our mobile gaming platform and data analytics engine to power future human capital services. Here’s the latest message we received. People around the world are creative and innovative.
Business in Brazil
Dec 17
We hear from many people and organizations around the world who want to use our mobile gaming platform and data analytics engine to power future human capital services.
Here’s the latest message we received.
People around the world are creative and innovative.
They get what we’re doing, they see where we’re going.
They know data is the new gold.
They’re envisioning a bright future of digital human capital, and they’re building for unleashing human potential at scale.
But they go about it in a smart way that leverages the power of KnackApp human signals to make third-party apps powerful and personalized, like never before.
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MP means Multi-Potential. Are you one of these people, who have the hidden potential to excel in two or more different fields? Multi-potential types are everywhere, but it’s difficult to locate them. They can apply their talent in many ways. They are highly curious individuals.
Are you an MP?
Aug 7
MP means Multi-Potential.
Are you one of these people, who have the hidden potential to excel in two or more different fields?
Multi-potential types are everywhere, but it’s difficult to locate them.
They can apply their talent in many ways.
They are highly curious individuals.
They love to learn and grow.
They on the hunt for new challenges (or they’ll get bored).
They can take on different roles and functions within your business.
And they can’t give you a single answer to the question “What do you want to do when you grow up?”
Find them, and you’ll find success.
Find Your Multi-Potentials
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You’re invited to join a webinar on Unleashing Your Potential with KnackApp. The webinar is brought to you by eSkill India, a Government of India program. During the webinar, we will introduce our brand new consumer products, including: Career Compass
Webinar: eSkill India & KnackApp | Unlock Your Potential | Get Your Career Maps | Get Your Skill Certificates | Build Your Skills | Unleash Your Future
Nov 19
You’re invited to join a webinar on Unleashing Your Potential with KnackApp.
The webinar is brought to you by eSkill India, a Government of India program.
During the webinar, we will introduce our brand new consumer products, including:
Career Compass
College Compass
Skilling Compass
Skill Certificate: X-Factor Skills
Skill Certificate: Employability Skills
Skill Certificate: Leadership Skills
Date & Time: November 20th 2020, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM India.
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Digital services on the web are all about engaging experiences (and, of course, value). The user’s experience with your service matters the most: experience makes (or breaks) products and brands. Experience is the hallmark of the Internet. Which leads us to our key point…
Experience is Everything
Oct 6
Digital services on the web are all about engaging experiences (and, of course, value).
The user’s experience with your service matters the most: experience makes (or breaks) products and brands.
Experience is the hallmark of the Internet.
Which leads us to our key point…
As people worldwide get used to, and come to expect, qualityengaging digital experiences, it anchors their expectations about all other products, services and brands they interact with.
If you’re an employer, a school, a college, a skill training provider, a youth program, or (perhaps even) a government agency offering reskilling and employment services, ask yourself how good is the experience you provide:
Is it engaging?
Does it attract the people you care about?
Would you (yes, you!) want to have that experience?
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Ben Horowitz, the entrepreneur and co-founder of the eponymous venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has a formula for super entrepreneurs: f = Genius * Courage Genius means: Bold creative original idea Deep critical thinking and understanding of how idea flows to results
Ben Horowitz''s Formula: Super Entrepreneurs
Sep 8
Ben Horowitz, the entrepreneur and co-founder of the eponymous venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has a formula for super entrepreneurs:
f = Genius * Courage
Genius means:
Bold creative original idea
Deep critical thinking and understanding of how idea flows to results
Couragemeans:
Persevering in the face of adversity
Unyielding determination to succeed
Genius without Courage isn’t enough; and Courage without Genius isn’t enough.
It’s the combined presence of the two that catapults one into a high potential entrepreneur.
Now, pause and ask.
How many such hidden super entrepreneurs are out there in the world?
100s… 1,000s… 10,000s… 100,000s… perhaps more?
The actual number is probably pretty large, but that’s not the point.
The key point is that the leveling and disintermediating effect of the Internet means we can discover and unleash exponentially more Horowitz-grade super entrepreneurs than at any other point in human history.
Now just think where that would lead.
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Imagine a college dropout applied for a job at your company and handed you the CV below. What would you do? How would you respond? What would you assume about this person? Would you say, “Let’s go beyond the CV, let’s find out what he can do for us?”
Steve Jobs
Oct 9
Imagine a college dropout applied for a job at your company and handed you the CV below.
What would you do?
How would you respond?
What would you assume about this person?
Would you say, “Let’s go beyond the CV, let’s find out what he can do for us?”
Or would you respond with the knee-jerk, “I know what great hires look like and this is not one of those applicants”.
You already know how Jobs went on to change the world.
Assuming people have incredible untapped potential (that doesn’t show on their CV) is not only a smart strategy. It’s a winning one.
Don’t let your own past patterns determine the future of your business.
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You must watch this, it’s hilarious…. but don’t follow this advice! We built a better, smarter, scientific way to find the best career paths. It starts here. In case you wondered, here’s what people say. Check out KnackApp. Don’t miss out, get our newsletter
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You must watch this, it’s hilarious…. but don’t follow this advice!
We built a better, smarter, scientific way to find the best career paths.
It starts here.
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Certain things in life are valuable. A few things would be considered precious. In our case, we’re focusing on the most precious thing. The world’s untapped human potential. It’s the potential for learning, doing, building, leading, innovating, and making impact.
Most precious thing
Oct 22
Certain things in life are valuable.
A few things would be considered precious.
In our case, we’re focusing on the most precious thing.
The world’s untapped human potential.
It’s the potential for learning, doing, building, leading, innovating, and making impact.
Potential is all about the future.
The future of people.
The future of business.
The future of countries.
We just released a new version of KnackApp on the App Store and Play Store.
We love the app because it gives jobseekers, candidates, teams, employees, students, trainees, teens, parents, community members, and many more (see the pictures) an unrivaled experience…
All while unlocking and unleashing their most precious thing.
Their untapped career potential.
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“Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” ~Anne Frank Girls and young women worldwide have been overlooked.
Unlocking the incredible potential of girls and young women
Oct 11
“Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
~Anne Frank
Girls and young women worldwide have been overlooked.
While girls and women from all socioeconomic backgrounds fought for personal fulfilment and professional achievement, time has come to accelerate progress in a programmatic, systemic fashion — and achieve transformative impact at scale.
Imagine, for example, what would happen if 10M young Indian, African or Filipino girls are given the chance to fulfill their incredible potential?
Enabling girls and women worldwide to unlock their untapped potential and build their future will shape their self-worth, mindsets and actions.
This is exactly why we’re building KnackApp.
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Here’s a snapshot of some of our users around the world.
Mindanao, Philippines
Córdoba, Spain
Geneva, Switzerland
Johannesburg, South Africa
Palo Alto, California
Rural India
Gauteng, South Africa
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KnackMarket is like no other market. It’s part of the next-generation KnackApp release. It’s where your best-matching opportunities find you. It’s powered by ultra-personalized matching, not search. The market matches people with skilling, learning, education, projects, jobs, management, and other opportunities that are best-suited for them.
A very different technology
KnackApp
Jul 1
KnackMarket is like no other market.
It’s part of the next-generation KnackApp release.
It’s where your best-matching opportunities find you.
It’s powered by ultra-personalized matching, not search.
The market matches people with skilling, learning, education, projects, jobs, management, and other opportunities that are best-suited for them.
It’s like Netflix for Opportunity, understanding the user’s aspirations, preferences, talents, skills, abilities and potential.
KnackMarket is designed for the digital skills economy, where what matters is what you can do, not the credentials you happen to have not the people you happen to know.
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Social skills are growing in importance. More jobs involve more tasks that require strong social skills. Social skills are becoming critical in hiring and professional development. That’s why they’re also critical for students and people seeking jobs and promotions.
Social Skills
Oct 10
Social skills are growing in importance.
More jobs involve more tasks that require strong social skills.
Social skills are becoming critical in hiring and professional development.
That’s why they’re also critical for students and people seeking jobs and promotions.
Fortunately, our cloud gamification platform makes it easy to identify and measure them quickly and effectively, at scale.
KnackApp offers businesses a smart solution to suss out people’s social skills (for as low as $1/person).
KnackApp also offers parents, schools, colleges and coaches a smart way to identify the social skill strengths (or gaps) of their teens, trainees, and students.
But there’s another point.
As more routine work gets automated away, the jobs of the future will require even more social interaction and collaboration.
Social skills will give you a strategic advantage.
Think of it this way:
strong social skills = smart workforce & business strategy.
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William H. Gates, Bill Gates’ father, passed away yesterday. In a moving — and inspiring — blog post Bill talks about his father, especially the incredible parent and role model he’s been to him. Bill attributes his success to his parents’ unconditional support and encouragement:
"The truth is, he was everything I try to be."
Sep 16
William H. Gates, Bill Gates’ father, passed away yesterday.
In a moving — and inspiring — blog post Bill talks about his father, especially the incredible parent and role model he’s been to him.
Bill attributes his success to his parents’ unconditional support and encouragement:
I knew [my parents’] love and support were unconditional, even when we clashed in my teenage years. I am sure that’s one of the reasons why I felt comfortable taking some big risks when I was young, like leaving college to start Microsoft with Paul Allen. I knew they would be in my corner even if I failed.
Bill also shares that—
My dad’s wisdom, generosity, empathy, and humility had a huge influence on people around the world.
He was collaborative, judicious, and serious about learning.
He modeled an amazing work ethic.
He was quick to tear up when he saw people suffering in the world.
And he would not let any of us forget the people behind the strategies we were discussing.
Role models play an important role, making enormous impact on the lives of young people, their choices, and futures.
Some see their parents as role models, while others follow the guidance and support of other role models.
Regardless who one’s role model is, becoming a role model is one of the most impactful ways to help young people anywhere build a more promising future.
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The world has reached the point where the young and youth, individuals in the 10 to 25 years old age group, make up the largest ever cohort of the global population. India alone, home to the world’s largest youth population, has 333 million people in that age group.
History''s largest.
Aug 24
The world has reached the point where the young and youth, individuals in the 10 to 25 years old age group, make up the largest ever cohort of the global population.
India alone, home to the world’s largest youth population, has 333 million people in that age group.
Put differently, the size of India’s youth population is about the same size of the entire US population.
Pause and think about it.
What’s at Stake.
Over the next 10 years this massive population will need to transition into learning, work and adult life, and positioned for broader engagement with society and markets.
Ensuring this happens is an epic challenge.
Meeting this challenge successfully will produce unprecedented economic benefits for individuals, families, countries, and the world economy as a whole.
And, yet.
Failing to meet it effectively and timely will trigger an avalanche of devastating economic effects, as well as family-, community-, country- and society-wide crises never before seen. Early signs of failure are already visible.
Scalable Software.
Solving this challenge requires a scalable software solution that leverages the power of AI to unlock the hidden potential of every individual, personalize and recommend the right actions, and dynamically connect that individual with an ever-changing set of opportunities.
This solution is not only about smart AI-powered automation at massive scale; it’s about a fundamentally new understanding of humans and their futures.
This software must solve for key elements, while also bringing unit economic costs to the near-zero frontier.
It’s the only way to deliver outcomes at global scale, and at the right time scale.
Without specifying them all, the key elements to solve for are:
Guidance: Career guidance
Skills: Foundational life skills
Learning: Skill acquisition, education
Support: Mentorship, tutoriship, various modes of support
Work: Access to work and new modalities of work
The Power of Potential.
The target population is about 3.5 billion. It’s the world’s largest age cohort.
This population represents the global trove of human potential, and the fuel of our future.
The challenge we’re facing today is unlocking, developing, and enabling the world’s most valuable resource.
The stakes don’t get any higher than that.
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People are prisoners of their résumés (or lack thereof): They’re made to think resumes are the definitive statements of what they can do—or whom they could become (Yes, it’s extremely demoralizing, think about it!) Companies make critical decisions based on resumes, as if they capture true value/potential or foretell what one could become (
What''s coming, right now
KnackApp
Jul 20
People are prisoners of their résumés (or lack thereof):
They’re made to think resumes are the definitive statements of what they can do—or whom they could become (Yes, it’s extremely demoralizing, think about it!)
Companies make critical decisions based on resumes, as if they capture true value/potential or foretell what one could become (Companies that want to not fall behind must make better decisions!)
Young people, who have no experience and therefore have got "nothing to put on their resumes”, are considered useless (Guess what? No experience means you won’t be able to get any. You see where it’s going?)
The resume-as-a-prison is a very bad loop.
It''s bad for people.
It''s bad for business.
It''s bad for the economy.
It’s bad for the future.
Let''s not forget that resumes are just a string of text.
And let’s also remember that 100 years ago resumes included things like weight (can you believe it?), height, marital status, and religion (God forbid!).
Would you want to have these on your resume?
Would you want to make decisions using such information?
Clearly not.
We want change. We need change.
It’s why we invented the Skills Wallet.
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Every country has its most venerable educational institutions. Some of the most well known ones include— Harvard (US) Oxford (UK) Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy) École Polytechnique (France) Pompeu Fabra (Spain) Kyung Hee University (South Korea)
The Ivy League, Revisited
Oct 12
Every country has its most venerable educational institutions.
Some of the most well known ones include—
Harvard (US)
Oxford (UK)
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy)
École Polytechnique (France)
Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
Kyung Hee University (South Korea)
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (India)
Tsinghua University (China)
Australian National University (Australia)
Numerous employers have been, and by and large still are, biased in favor of recruiting their future employees out of this small talent pool.
Employers should move past this bias.
Whatever their logic is, it’s time to de-bias and re-strategize.
Corporates can now find extremely high potential talent in every school and college, including among those who’re not enrolled in higher education altogether.
Here’s how we look at it:
>Your strategy: Think Moneyball. Spot and recruit overlooked, underpriced “talent assets” and gain a huge advantage over your competitors (who miss out on this talent!).
>Your execution: KnackApp’s smart gaming and AI tech helps you spot extremely high potential talent in any talent pool while delivering the best candidate experience.
To sum up, expanding your recruiting reach will get you:
Invaluable high potential talent you never met before
Help you “close the deal” with candidates you’re interested in
Bring invaluable insights/POVs into your workforce and business
Find Your Future High Potential Talent
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Talent is like the North Star. In a changing world, it’s always constant. It helps you navigate the journey to the future. It helps you create the future of your business. Make your company a Talent First company. Identify the right talent for the future.
Becoming a Talent First Company
Nov 17
Talent is like the North Star.
In a changing world, it’s always constant.
It helps you navigate the journey to the future.
It helps you create the future of your business.
Make your company a Talent First company.
Identify the right talent for the future.
Hire for the right future skills.
Unlock untapped potential.
Build a powerful workforce.
Get ready for the future.
Because it always happens sooner than we expect.
HIRE FOR THE FUTURE
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Why we’re building and doing what we do? There were two reasons at play. It was at the height of the financial crisis when Guy, our founder, was looking for an entry-level job. He reached out to the Career Services Office at his alma mater, and within a day got invited for an interview with a world-renowned NYC hedge fund.
About us.
Aug 31
Why we’re building and doing what we do?
There were two reasons at play.
It was at the height of the financial crisis when Guy, our founder, was looking for an entry-level job. He reached out to the Career Services Office at his alma mater, and within a day got invited for an interview with a world-renowned NYC hedge fund.
After several long and nerve-racking interview rounds, that firm turned him down.
“You’re not creative,” was their verdict.
This personal, frustrating experience was exactly the trigger he needed.
He realized this job-application-and-talent-matching-process was as arcane as it can get, devoid of any insight into how he might have been able to contribute, if he were to join that firm.
In fact, it was his Harvard doctorate that got him on their radar screen to begin with. And that was the root of the second reason.
Guy reckoned that that hedge fund was intent on hiring only Ivy League grads. And that without his Harvard pedigree, he would have not even get looked at.
In other words, anyone outside that small talent pool would have zero chance even getting a “No”, not to mention getting the job, no matter how talented she or he happen to be.
This just seemed crazy.
It seemed to make no business sense, either.
Having been turned down, Guy started imagining a fundamentally different world where people anywhere, from all walks of life, would use their mobile to unlock and signal their hidden potential to the world, and get connected with the right opportunity in a way that’s as easy and simple as posting on Instagram.
In other words, the technology would level an unfair and uneven playing field, and change the game once and for all.
Working remotely from his NYC kitchen counter, Guy brought together a team of developers, designers, scientists, and machine learning experts, and started building.
Building KnackApp and witnessing its immense potential and promise has shaped our thinking and vision of the future of business as well as how people will connect with opportunity in ways we’ve not anticipated.
It has also given us the confidence and freedom to build a virtual team, way before Coronavirus has pushed business in that direction.
For us it was a deliberate choice to get the most talented people wherever they happen to be in the world, no matter their credentials or pedigree, prestige of geography.
Today our team includes a remarkable group of people who work from California, Congo, Ghana, India, Israel, Italy and Nigeria. This diverse “sandbox” of sensibilities and experiences shapes our DNA, product, and innovation. It fuels and crystalizes our vision of the future.
Along the way we’ve met many people who think of the future in a rather fixed fashion, fixating their thinking, effort and minds, possibly even limiting their aspirations and achievements.
Our team sees a fundamentally different future. For us, it’s about how far we can go. And about how we enable any person to go as far as they can. For the questions you ask and how you look at yourself shape your beliefs and your actions.
We’re reimagining the future. We’re democratizing the future.
We’re using the force of innovation to bend the slope of positive development. We’re bringing the power of web and mobile technology to reach people wherever they are and impact their lives, at scale.
Building a tech startup isn’t only a feat of engineering. We feed on the promise of innovation and the power of inspiration.
As Robin Williams said, “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
Indeed, when we started out Valley veterans thought it was a crazy idea, but as the legendary Steve Jobs had proven time and again, “the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
This is why we’re building.
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The upcoming release of the next generation KnackApp platform will bring to market a set of powerful gamified innovations. It’s our biggest and boldest release, ever. It is designed for: Individuals Families Schools, colleges Skilling, training providers
What''s coming
KnackApp
Jun 30
The upcoming release of the next generation KnackApp platform will bring to market a set of powerful gamified innovations.
It’s our biggest and boldest release, ever.
It is designed for:
Individuals
Families
Schools, colleges
Skilling, training providers
Service providers
Communities
Businesses
Governments
Here’s a sneak peek of the initial matrix of platform solutions.
Stay tuned, we’ll share more in the next few days.
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Building your strongest ever high-potential, future-ready workforce was never within reach as it is now. Create your target high-potential profile Checkout (and pay $9.90) to get your unique gamification link and QR code Send link/QR code to candidates, employees, applicants, trainees, etc.
The future: Hiring for potential, hiring beyond jobs
Aug 12
Building your strongest ever high-potential, future-ready workforce was never within reach as it is now.
Create your target high-potential profile
Checkout (and pay $9.90) to get your unique gamification link and QR code
Send link/QR code to candidates, employees, applicants, trainees, etc.
That’s it.
Super smart, yet super simple.
Ps - ask yourself this, How will someone do something if no one showed them how to do it?
You’d want to hire people who’d figure things out on their own, who’d be curious about the business to always learn and learn quickly, who’d switch swiftly across tasks and pick up new knowledge and skills, who’d collaborate well with others, who’d deliver real value in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity.
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With the release of our Next Generation Platform, KnackApp gives you the best way to recruit, hire and identify hidden talent and high potentials, anywhere. Recruiting the top talent you need never got better, easier, smarter and more cost-effective!
📣Attention all recruiters
KnackApp
Jul 31
With the release of our Next Generation Platform, KnackApp gives you the best way to recruit, hire and identify hidden talent and high potentials, anywhere.
Recruiting the top talent you need never got better, easier, smarter and more cost-effective!
(In our next post, we’ll show how you can deliver an unrivaled candidate experience that is fully-branded and highly personalized.)
Simply go to KnackApp -
Scroll down to Matchto select a skill & talent profile, or
Go to the Knack Store to instantly customize one,
Continue to Checkout.
Done!
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Aurora, a European non-profit, believes that talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. That’s why Aurora has set its mission to identify young European women and men (under 20) who could be equipped with the critical skills they’d need to become the leaders and innovators of the future.
The Aurora Experience
Nov 25
Aurora, a European non-profit, believes that talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not.
That’s why Aurora has set its mission to identify young European women and men (under 20) who could be equipped with the critical skills they’d need to become the leaders and innovators of the future.
Aurora uses KnackApp to enable its candidates to discover their hidden skills and strengths and to unleash their potential. Read this fresh coverage from StartupItalia.
Aurora pairs brilliant and daring young women and men with a well-resourced, interconnected ecosystem that enables them to become successful future change makers.
Aurora Fellows benefit from:
a three-year coaching program
a network of international Wizards who broaden their horizons
a €10,000 grant that enables extraordinary, transformative and unconventional experiences
Aurora is a fantastic example of the new generation of human potential investors.
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The world is running the largest-ever human capital experiment: millions of office workers worldwide are working from their new offices — their kitchen tables and living rooms — and early indicators show the experiment is a big success. People seem to have had an epiphany regarding the countless virtues and benefits of working from the coziness of their homes, not least the avoidance of their daily commute.
🙅🏽♀️🙅🏻♂️🏢The death of the office
May 4
The world is running the largest-ever human capital experiment: millions of office workers worldwide are working from their new offices — their kitchen tables and living rooms — and early indicators show the experiment is a big success.
People seem to have had an epiphany regarding the countless virtues and benefits of working from the coziness of their homes, not least the avoidance of their daily commute.
Businesses, too, see spikes in engagement and productivity. Moreover, as businesses face the need to quickly cut down on costs, CEO’s flag real estate portfolios as prime target for cost reduction.
“The notion of putting 7,000 people in a building may be a thing of the past” —Jes Staley, CEO, Barclays
Google, for example, hit the pause button on a large Silicon Valley deal.
There are strong reasons to believe, then, that we’re witnessing the emergence of a new world of work normal.
Corporate human capital is entering a new age.
This seismic shift into a virtual and distributed human capital involves a wholesale rebooting and reshaping of the ways we work, recruit, hire, collaborate, train, manage, and lead.
The immediate implications are too many to be outlined right now.
The most revealing analogy, though, is that of retail — namely, the death of high street retail and the nearly zero-sum dominance of online retail platforms (think Amazon).
Coronavirus is massively accelerating the shift into the new normal, but certainly did not start it.
Talent has been moving upward on the physical-to-virtual trajectory ever since digital technology started eating up traditional work models.
Regardless of whether the shift is partial or whole, it’s the dawn of a new age of human capital.
Stay tuned.
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The smartest investment you could ever make is to invest in potential. Yes. Sounds simple. Let’s unpack this. It’s true in venture capital, in private and public equity markets, and — most importantly — it’s also true when it comes to investing in people you hire, promote, retain, or upskill.
The best (hidden) investment right now.
Aug 10
The smartest investment you could ever make is to invest in potential.
Yes. Sounds simple. Let’s unpack this.
It’s true in venture capital, in private and public equity markets, and — most importantly — it’s also true when it comes to investing in people you hire, promote, retain, or upskill.
Potential should be the Northstar that guides your investment decisions because potential is forward-looking, telling you what that person can do in the future.
(For those thinking in terms of financial “asset classes”, focusing on potential is looking at the “expected future cash flow” a person will generate.)
Keep in mind that your business performance and outcomes depend on your actual (vs. potential) investment in potential. In fact, these investments are the most impactful way to build your business workforce for the future.
And if you can find multi-potentials, your investment will yield even higher returns.
That said,
How do you find that hidden potential?
Where do you find it?
How do you do that ahead of others, while it’s hidden and, therefore, “underpriced”?
Discovering potential is precisely why we’ve built KnackApp.
Leap to the future as you start viewing KnackApp as your investment portfolio management AI platform.
The potential returns for adopting this view are, indeed, infinite.
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A global consumer brand (you most likely have their products in your household) is using KnackApp games to identify its top future hires. One of the candidates playing the games reached out to us. Here’s what the candidate shared. See KnackApp for yourself.
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Dec 7
A global consumer brand (you most likely have their products in your household) is using KnackApp games to identify its top future hires.
One of the candidates playing the games reached out to us. Here’s what the candidate shared.
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Over 30 million Americans have became unemployed over the past six weeks. Millions more lost jobs in other countries, while millions more will become unemployed and poor as businesses shrink or go under. Yet, as economies start coming out of lockdown, we face an unprecedented opportunity to rebuild the global workforce in a better, smarter way.
The great labor market reboot
Apr 30
Over 30 million Americans have became unemployed over the past six weeks.
Millions more lost jobs in other countries, while millions more will become unemployed and poor as businesses shrink or go under.
Yet, as economies start coming out of lockdown, we face an unprecedented opportunity to rebuild the global workforce in a better, smarter way.
The pandemic outbreak galvanized a renewed realization that the pre-pandemic labor market wasn’t working for all: that many people were left behind and that opportunity and income inequalities unequally affected people of color.
Indeed, lockdowns penalized most those who were already worst off.
Low-paid, low-skilled workers saw their jobs evaporate overnight; while better-paid middle- and high-skilled workers quickly shifted to working from the comfort of their Internet-connected, digitally-wired homes.
It turns out that 37% of all jobs can be done from home. In the US, these jobs account for 46% of total wages, which means they are highly paid. In the UK, working-from-home workers are paid twice as much as those in shutdown jobs.
Amazon, Uber and others offered minimally- and low-paid workers extra pay just to encourage them to show up at work, despite the imminent risk of infection. It’s most troubling that these companies came to offer slightly more pay only when they faced the threat of complete business standstill.
This reality is unsustainable, on multiple levels.
Our post-pandemic labor market can — and, indeed, should — work differently.
The great reboot we’re talking about calls for reforming and retooling access to information, opportunity, livelihood, and economic security.
It’s about democratizing the future.
Practically speaking, key elements of the post-pandemic future should include —
Internet access as a basic public utility (because the digital divide reinforces the opportunity divide and perpetuates ‘opportunity deserts’)
Skilling as a right (so people can become more productive and move on to better-paying jobs)
Skill-based hiring as the norm (so those who can’t afford getting costly credentials are not doomed)
Fair pay as fair play (so as to end the exploitative practice of cheap labor)
The transition to the post-pandemic world presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for public and business leaders alike to act swiftly and lead the way in building a better, smarter and socially sustainable workforce.
Rebooting the market will not only benefit business; it will produce a more resilient future workforce as well.
We have an opportunity — indeed, a duty — to effect change. Not only because social and distributive justice demands it. But because urgent business needs make it the only rational choice.
In other words, recovering from the pandemic outbreak is an opportunity to accelerate business and labor market transformation into the digital future.
And, as you might have surmised, the Next Generation KnackApp is set to play an ever greater role in retooling and enabling this post-pandemic future.
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“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” ~Anne Frank “Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you’re insulting yourself.”
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“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
~Anne Frank
“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you’re insulting yourself.”
-Bill Gates
If you follow our newsletters, you’ll know by now that we’ve built AI-powered gamification platform to unlock the world’s untapped potential and transform people’s life trajectories, at scale. We’re executing on our product and strategic roadmap, and working hard to push the frontiers of innovation.
Our new source and type of data is at the core.
Our forthcoming product release focuses on giving people novel access to powerful data that enables them to make the right skilling, learning, education and career decisions — as we push the market to a new paradigm of using data to build and navigate people’s professional futures.
But, wait, that’s not all.
We’re actually going for a more profound transformation: Metanoia.
Empowering every person to discover their inner and invaluable potential and unlock their career decisions shapes how they see themselves, perceive their self-worth, sets their mindsets, and creates hopefulness about their future.
The most incredible thing is that all this happens just by playing (really smart) games on mobile, something that everyone can do, anywhere, anytime.
Stay tuned. We’ll release the details in the coming days.
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Ted Barlow is the Founder & CEO of NouKòd (meaning “we code” in Haitian Creole). Ted is an experienced IT executive and was Chief Security Officer at McAfee. Ted emailed us last week to get our technical help. Here’s what he told us. Congratulations on your new platform, I can see already how it will help us use the tool and reports much easier.
More than 90%.
Nov 9
Ted Barlow is the Founder & CEO of NouKòd (meaning “we code” in Haitian Creole).
Ted is an experienced IT executive and was Chief Security Officer at McAfee.
Ted emailed us last week to get our technical help.
Here’s what he told us.
Congratulations on your new platform, I can see already how it will help us use the tool and reports much easier.
We’ve been using KnackApp for the last couple of years with our recruiting program. We’ve now trained and employed 25 programmers since August 2018 and after 2 years our retention rate is more than 90%. I credit KnackApp for helping us find talent and allow us to be confident in their potential over the long term. We’re going to be expanding our training and hiring programs over the next 3 years to include more than 750 individuals. We’ll be using KnackApp for every hiring decision. I even mentioned how we use KnackApp in this article about our company.
We’re a train-to-hire program & company so we need to know how well our program participants/future employees will do before they take a seat. All in a different culture where most talent screening tools are useless.
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We used to think about the future in a rather fixed way. As if there’s a certain future destination we want to reach, and once we do, we’ve arrived. “When I grow up I want to become X”. We used to set fixed goals. Setting such goals fixated our thinking, effort and minds, possibly even limited our aspirations and achievements.
How far can you go?
Aug 14
We used to think about the future in a rather fixed way.
As if there’s a certain future destination we want to reach, and once we do, we’ve arrived.
“When I grow up I want to become X”.
We used to set fixed goals.
Setting such goals fixated our thinking, effort and minds, possibly even limited our aspirations and achievements.
But with the advent of AI and our ability to discover and unlock hidden human potential like never before, it’s time we look at the future — our individual, business, and collective futures — in a whole new way.
We’ve got to turn the question on it’s head, and ask—
How far can I go?
How far can my kids go?
How far can my students go?
How far can my employees go?
How far can my company go?
How far can my community go?
Making sure you’re asking the right question determines your solution and actions.
As Albert Einstein said,
“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”
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All that matters is how you see yourself. As Bill Gates said, “Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you’re insulting yourself.” How you see yourself is one of life’s most powerful forces. In fact, Greek thinkers identified the motions that link knowing yourself with the actions you take in life.
Metanoia
KnackApp
Jun 14
All that matters is how you see yourself. As Bill Gates said, “Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you’re insulting yourself.”
How you see yourself is one of life’s most powerful forces. In fact, Greek thinkers identified the motions that link knowing yourself with the actions you take in life.
Unleashing this force at scale offers enormous gains.
Specifically, enabling people to see their hidden potential and paths to success shapes their self-worth, mindset and actions.
Because if you don’t see yourself as a winner, you can’t perform as one.
At a time when millions are disenfranchised from the access to opportunity and a decent economic future, enabling them to see their hidden potential and future success is empowering — and revolutionary.
Metanoia, the change of mind and the new way of looking at oneself and the world, offers us the promise of massive change and a better tomorrow.
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Remote and Virtual are very different. Let’s unpack them. Remote means you have a corporate hub or some physical locations, but some work and contribute without being present there. In you go Virtual, you’ve got NO physical location; everyone is remote.
Remote *or* Virtual?
May 22
Remote and Virtual are very different. Let’s unpack them.
Remote means you have a corporate hub or some physical locations, but some work and contribute without being present there.
In you go Virtual, you’ve got NO physical location; everyone is remote.
In the new world of work, many businesses — even banks! — are starting to go “remote”.
Facebook’s shift to “remote” is going to pressure more businesses — in tech and beyond — to go the same way.
Of course, if you operate a factory you won’t go remote, but for any service or digital product business, the choice — and opportunity — is here.
Keep in mind that even grocery (think: Walmart, Whole Foods) is rapidly becoming digital business.
Some businesses will go all the way to “virtual” because their customer base has gone “virtual”.
Here’s the key message: Human capital — applying skills to doing business, creating products, delivering services, and more — is not dependent on people being in physical proximity.
At KnackApp, we’ve pioneered the virtual mode a while ago, and it’s been awesome!
Coronavirus is the liberation of talent from the shackles of the physical world.
Going officeless changes everything we know, and most importantly—
How you create a sense of camaraderie, purpose and commitment
Where you look for talent
How you recruit and hire
How employees learn and grow
Who manages? Who leads?
How you collaborate and achieve results
The remote and virtual worlds of work are upon us.
This new digital reality requires new digital solutions that are fit for the new world.
Stay tuned as we’re about to release our next-generation digital platform, just in time to enable businesses, schools, colleges, families and individuals to make their transition into this bold new future.
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Wishing you all a good weekend.
Stay safe, stay well!
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The world has changed, triggering a massive technology push into the digital future while radically reshaping the way we work and do business. This critical change is putting heightened pressure on delivering higher business performance with fewer employees at overall lower cost
The key reason why you should focus on identifying the highest potential talent
KnackApp
Jun 11
The world has changed, triggering a massive technology push into the digital future while radically reshaping the way we work and do business.
This critical change is putting heightened pressure on delivering higher business performance with fewer employees at overall lower cost.
The only way to achieve this and transition to the new landscape is by taking tight control over your supply chain: recruiting, evaluating, selecting and hiring to make sure you identify the highest potential talent that fits the company — all while controlling spend.
You’d want people who can perform strongly across today’s roles and tomorrow’s functions.
All this puts critical soft skills — including: eagerness to learn, curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, ambiguity tolerance, adaptability, dependability, resourcefulness, grit, and collaboration — at the core of every company, as these are key to gaining workforce agility.
These will set your company apart, giving you much-needed flexibility in managing your workforce in times of inherent uncertainty.
‘High potential’ at times of inherent uncertainty means a totally different set of skills.
Recalibrating ‘high potential’ for the new reality gives you a business edge while also protecting you from the downside of additional business shocks.
Remember, flexibility is not compulsory but neither is survival.
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Enabling people worldwide — teens, trainees, learners, students, jobseekers, veterans, unemployed, workers, managers, entrepreneurs and others — realize their true potential calls for solutions that tackle different barriers and needs.
We believe advisors, mentors and roles models should play an important role in making this vision come to life.
It’s because everyone, anywhere, needs some type of help, support, advice, inspiration, motivation, guidance, and much more.
Yet, most people today lack access to such advisors, mentors or roles models.
The next generation KnackApp platform (to be released in the next few days) has specific ways in which mentors, advisors, and role models can play a role.
But our new release goes far beyond that to help people discover and connect with the right advice, mentorship, and more.
Got anyone you’d want to nominate?
Stay tuned for details and access.
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How can we do more with less? That’s the quintessential question that’s at the heart of workforce productivity and economic efficiency. Turns out there’s a simple and scalable solution. Harvard and MIT economists recently ran an experiment where they looked at the returns of getting some extra sleep.
Why napping at work is (yes!) a really good thing?
Feb 17
How can we do more with less?
That’s the quintessential question that’s at the heart of workforce productivity and economic efficiency.
Turns out there’s a simple and scalable solution.
Harvard and MIT economists recently ran an experiment where they looked at the returns of getting some extra sleep.
Turns out that adults in Chennai, India (formerly known as Madras, home of Chicken Madras Curry!) have strikingly low quantity and quality of sleep relative to standard guidelines.
Despite spending 8 hours in bed, they achieve only 5.6 hours per night of sleep, with upwards of 32 awakenings per night!
In the experiment, one group of adults received nearly half an hour of extra sleep each night.
Surprisingly, however, that extra sleep didn’t translate into measurable effects on cognition, productivity, decision-making or well-being.
The other group was able to take high-quality naps during work.
The research shows these naps produced higher levels of productivity, cognition, psychological well-being and patience.
While these are preliminary findings, they show extra time of good quality sleep has important benefits and invaluable economic returns for people and employers alike.
What’s next?
Get some sleep, then think about it.
🔮ps - read more about sleep in Bill Gates’ blog.
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The Remote Reality is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Harvard and Princeton announced yesterday a mostly-remote opening of the next academic year. For incoming students, college experience is going to be dramatically different. High schools, colleges, vocational training, and adult education are going remote too.
What''s coming?
KnackApp
Jul 7
The Remote Reality is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
Harvard and Princeton announced yesterday a mostly-remote opening of the next academic year.
For incoming students, college experience is going to be dramatically different.
High schools, colleges, vocational training, and adult education are going remote too.
Companies that can, are going remote too (and for those that can’t, ‘redesign costs’ are all too often prohibitively unaffordable).
In the new Remote Reality, digital is as real as it gets.
Most things we used to do at school, at work and beyond, would migrate sooner or later to digital, or virtually vanish.
Think about what all this means for the millions of people worldwide seeking to learn, train, work, innovate, build, and otherwise continue with building their human capital and economic future.
This forced transition accelerates technology adoption, which — counterintuitively! — levels the playing field for urban dwellers and rural netizens.
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Every school, college and company wants diversity talent. It’s not just the right thing to do, it’s smart strategy too. The sweeping anti-inequality movement unfolding right now in America and beyond makes it a business imperative for every organization.
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Jun 12
Every school, college and company wants diversity talent.
It’s not just the right thing to do, it’s smart strategy too.
The sweeping anti-inequality movement unfolding right now in America and beyond makes it a business imperative for every organization.
Diversity is not only about race, gender, age or orientation.
It’s also about socioeconomics and location.
Diversity talent is everywhere. But you won’t find it through resumes.
In the data below, blue and orange candidates have virtually identical on the distribution of potential for Science, Technology, Math, Engineering and Learning — they are the prized candidates virtually every organization wants to find.
But…
While the blues are predominately white males graduating from “elite” colleges, the orange ones are brown and black people with no college education.
You’ll see soon how you find them—and how you can connect with them, like never before.
Please stay tuned for what’s coming.
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Was this forwarded to you? Join here Most of the things we do can be viewed as one of two exchanges: Trading money for prestige Trading prestige for money Prestige, by design, is scarce and exclusive. Prestige doesn’t scale. In contrast… Potential is abundant. Potential is inclusive. Potential is an equalizer.
Prestigious
Aug 27
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Most of the things we do can be viewed as one of two exchanges:
Trading money for prestige
Trading prestige for money
Prestige, by design, is scarce and exclusive.
Prestige doesn’t scale.
In contrast…
Potential is abundant. Potential is inclusive. Potential is an equalizer.
And has no limits.
Let’s pause and think.
If you’re a CEO, a dean, a policymaker, or a parent, do you go for prestige, or rather for potential?
Can you imagine the possibilities?
Can you imagine the consequences of asking this question?
Here’s the answer.
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The hunt for top talent did not stop with the global pandemic. But it quickly shifted to a new normal: virtual, mobile, digital. Delivering a branded, mobile-first engaging experience that meets your future talent wherever they are, in a way that’s relevant to them and fits a virtual way of doing business, becomes all the more important.
Top Talent for Banks, FI''s and PE''s
Aug 3
The hunt for top talent did not stop with the global pandemic.
But it quickly shifted to a new normal: virtual, mobile, digital.
Delivering a branded, mobile-first engaging experience that meets your future talent wherever they are, in a way that’s relevant to them and fits a virtual way of doing business, becomes all the more important.
Engage and attract your future and current workforce with a gamified, empowering experience that clearly stands out from the rest of the pack.
While you get instant access to powerful talent analytic insights and capabilities that transform your recruiting, hiring and talent ROI.
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We’ve been hard at work building the all-new KnackApp digital platform.
Here’s what’s coming:
The all-new KnackAppmobile app (for people, anywhere)
The all-new KnackAppweb application (for parents, advisors, schools, and businesses)
KnackStore (including: skills, work skills, innovation skills, leadership skills, learning pathways, career pathways, work styles, and more)
GameStore (including: Supergames for identifying hidden skills, and Nanogames for certifying work skills)
Skill Wallet (the new way to market my talent)
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People everywhere want to secure a good job, but face incredible barriers. Consider key insights and numbers from the latest analysis of the US education-to-career landscape: High school career advising is vastly under-resourced, and this disproportionately impacts students of color.
[Just Released] US Report on Unlocking Career Potential
Apr 28
People everywhere want to secure a good job, but face incredible barriers.
Consider key insights and numbers from the latest analysis of the US education-to-career landscape:
High school career advising is vastly under-resourced, and this disproportionately impacts students of color.
Less than 20% of college students use career centers for job seeking and career advice.
College-bound young people no longer believe college actually prepares them for careers.
41% of recent college graduates and 34% of all graduates are underemployed. And, worse, these numbers are much higher for women and Black Americans.
Shifting labor market demands mean the skills of today lose 50% of their relevance within just 5 years.
The terrible state of career pathways — in the US and globally — has been magnified by the Coronavirus outbreak, becoming a full-blown work and livelihood crisis that disproportionately affects the poor, disadvantaged, and disconnected.
What does this mean?
We must enable every person to unlock their potential to the fullest — and build a better future
We must provide individuals, families and communities with the tools to achieve economic security and personal wellbeing
We must provide the business sector and the economy at large with tools to connect with the right talent
It’s all about the future.
It’s all about building a just and inclusive future for all.
And the stakes can’t be higher.
It’s why we’re sharing with you this new report (commissioned by the Gates Foundation), including its feature of KnackApp.
Today, more than ever before, it’s imperative we leverage digital and mobile technology to enable people from all walks of life to build their future.
The next-generation KnackApp will deliver exactly that globally, at scale.
Stay closely tuned for the upcoming release.
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Ingenuity, the capacity to think up inventive ideas and clever contributions, offers humanity the promise of progress.
Throughout history, brilliant breakthroughs brought about crucial change.
But ingenuity is a uniquely human feature; computers got none.
How, then, can societies, governments, corporations, universities and others unlock more ingenuity?
How do we, collectively, alter the aggregate supply of human ingenuity?
And, finally, how do we turn the discovery of this critical resource into a non-random, programmatic pipeline?
Increasing the supply of ingenuity will make every human being in the world better off.
We believe KnackApp will play a critical role in making this vision a reality.
Consider this.
Social media catapulted the shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice. Everyone has a chance. Everyone can be discovered. Anywhere.
KnackApp makes it possible for anyone, anywhere, to unlock and digitally broadcast his or her talent — and to get discovered for it.
Stay tuned for our forthcoming announcement.
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For far too long, getting onto the best career path depended on the people you (or your parents) know — your network. Networks are nothing new. Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Silicon Valley and Downing Street are just a few powerful ecosystems where networks reigns supreme.
Whom do you know
Aug 11
For far too long, getting onto the best career path depended on the people you (or your parents) know — your network.
Networks are nothing new.
Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Silicon Valley and Downing Street are just a few powerful ecosystems where networks reigns supreme.
Moreover, in the age of social media, the prevailing wisdom is that networking is the thing to do, the sine quo non to future success.
Well, let’s (re)think.
We think the conventional wisdom is wrong, and here’s why.
Networks are a ticket to the “fast track” for those who have networks.
But networks create a huge barrierfor those (often not as privileged, but equally or even more talented) outside these networks, for whom they’re nothing but an impenetrable moat.
In reality, networks divide (any) universe of people into insiders vs outsiders.
Networks and opportunity are in conflict with each other.
Networks create barriers, which, when you come to think about it, are antithetical to what we want to achieve by using the awesome power of the Internet.
We want to level the playing field, and make it wide open to all.
But that’s not all.
Networks also work like echo chambers; they perpetuate sameness and revert to the mean while killing diversity and reducing creativity and ingenuity (not to mention fairness and fair chance).
Now, if you’re an employer or a college hunting for the best future talent —
Do you want to go the network route and get more of the same?
Or…
You’d rather find the unique, the extraordinary, and the hidden?
We’ll share more, quite soon.
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The right thing schools, colleges, skill development organizations, employers and governments at any level should do in the face of global uncertainty is to invest in human potential. Investing in discovering, unlocking and developing potential enables you to build a world-class
How AI reveals hidden human potential
Aug 13
The right thing schools, colleges, skill development organizations, employers and governments at any level should do in the face of global uncertainty is to invest in human potential.
Investing in discovering, unlocking and developing potential enables you to build a world-class, high potential skilled workforce and talent-base for the work, industries and opportunities of the future.
The future is fueled by potential, not by credentials.
Making these investments buys you the promise of possibility and a share of the future.
The video below shows an example of how investing in potential transforms Youth Guidance and Skill Development.
Remember that, as Bill Gates said,
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How do you help young people (your children, relatives, students, others) realize their true career potential? Start with helping them establish solid, realistic aspirations. To do this, help them get valid and objective actionable personalized insights
Early Career Insights Make Huge Difference
Dec 23
How do you help young people (your children, relatives, students, others) realize their true career potential?
Start with helping them establish solid, realistic aspirations.
To do this, help them get valid and objective actionable personalized insights that let them discover possible career paths they (and likely you!) might not have known, or even thought about.
“You can’t be what you can’t see.”
~ Nick Chambers, CEO, Education & Employers
It’s important to keep in mind that entrenched gender stereotypes and outdated family expectations frequently stand in the way. Removing these biases broadens the knowledge — and choice — of possible career paths.
Getting personalized insights provides the basis for having meaningful career conversations with young people.
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When you buy a new phone, you want it to work well. You want it to have better camera, run bigger apps, have longer battery life, and more. After all, our phones are critical for everyday life. Let’s think about hiring the same way. When you make your next hire, you’d want to hire
People Who Learn
Jan 6
When you buy a new phone, you want it to work well.
You want it to have better camera, run bigger apps, have longer battery life, and more.
After all, our phones are critical for everyday life.
Let’s think about hiring the same way.
When you make your next hire, you’d want to hire People Who Learn:
People who’re naturally curious and inquisitive
People who want to know more and understand anything or everything
People who’re open to feedback, who realize feedback is the path to learning and growing
People Who Learn will add a Learning Layer to everything that happens in your business
This Learning Layer is the biggest game changer you can introduce to your business.
Here’s how to spot them.
Take a look, you’ll learn something new.
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