Mon.Jan 01, 2024

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Former NFL Player John Diggs Bounced Back From a Crisis and Found Success With His “Mapineering” Technique

Success

For a long time, everything was just about picture-perfect for John Diggs. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he earned a scholarship to play football at Washington State University and played several years in the NFL. That career ended in 1995, when his right knee was reconstructed—but this was only the beginning for Diggs , who pivoted, swift and nimble as a running back, into a mortgage career.

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Why You Should Embrace Change In The Era Of Hyper-Speed Tech Evolution

Allwork

Throughout history, technology has replaced human actions but not humans; our definition of what it means to be human has evolved. Capitalism finds ways to adapt to new technologies by creating new fields of work for humans to provide value and earn money. Technology brings a rapid rate of change to industrial economies that makes skill sets of large labor forces obsolete.

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We are not blank slates and we don’t adapt to change in predictable ways

Workplace Insight

An idea that has never really gone away, but which seems to be enjoying a new lease of life is the tabula rasa. The conception of people as a blank slate is something that has crept back into mainstream political and social thought for a variety of reasons. Arguably, it is also behind many of the most misleading notions about work and workplace design, perhaps most importantly that a change to some single element or characteristic of a working environment will lead to a specific outcome in the b

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