Comments on Bernard Avishai Dot Com: Unemployment Or Unemployability? A Story.

Really interesting to read the comments here and t...

2009-10-01T06:10:23.858-04:00

Really interesting to read the comments here and the ones over at TPM on the same post. You have really put a fox among the chickens there.

Everyone will have a dream of getting a good job t...

2009-10-01T02:43:19.379-04:00

Everyone will have a dream of getting a good job that they love, but not everyone will get right place to work. There are many ways to find job openings get into a good job, some try those things and some won't. This is because they are not aware of it.

Great one. I'd add the greatness of small (small ...

2009-09-29T17:43:47.331-04:00

Great one. I'd add the greatness of small (small like in community businesses vs. national or multi national ones). Being closer to the community allows entrepreneurs to gain a comparative advantage to the monster corporations that loose the people touch while trying to perfect their systems. As an information systems person myself, everyday I see too many hot shot consultants mastering and selling the technology, but forgetting that the most important part of any firm is its people, first and foremost being the customer. Keep on writing Bernie...

I love this! LUCID explanations of "what" and "why...

2009-09-28T09:02:42.312-04:00

I love this! LUCID explanations of "what" and "why." And I'm looking forward to your "how" post. I work with refugees in Atlanta with myriad needs, employment among the top on the list of essentials. I find that assembly line, custodial work is what affords wages to the 40- and 50-something non-English-speaking adults w near-zero transferability of skills honed in the refugee camps where they lived about 18 years. It is the younger set, still in school where attention must be paid to education and training for the long haul. (The 20-somethings' education is on hold while pulling in the low-wages w burger-flipping jobs...) Anyone reading this post and comments, PLEASE adopt now a family or a young person (or more) to shed light along the tunnel toward opportunity out of the mind- and soul-numbing slots life has dealt the community. Monitor what's said and not said in the schools, encourage study and planning, tutor to advance basic skills and to widen horizons... and while the list is endless, it is all so simple: just do it.

Now if we could just get medical practitioners to ...

2009-09-27T14:20:32.424-04:00

Now if we could just get medical practitioners to replicate your mechanic's collaborative approach to car problems, health care outcomes would be vastly improved and cost less at the same time.