Skills for the future workplace

1. Ping Quotient
2. Longbroading
3. Open Authorship
4. Cooperation Radar
5. Multi-Capitalism
6. Mobbability
7. Protovation
8. Influency
9. Signal/Noise Management
10. Emergensight
    

Have the above skills? Know what the above terms even mean?

According to the nonprofit research group Institute for the Future, these are "the skills workers should strive to have and the skills workers should seek out and promote." The skills themselves emphasize social networking (Ping Quotient, Influency), collaboration (Open Authorship, Cooperation Radar, Mobbability, Influency), ability to deal with change (Emergensight), and more. In a culture and economy that is emphasizing ever-quicker innovations, technological solutions, and creative problem-solving, businesses and workers privleging these ten skills will prove more productive and profitable.

Thanks, PSFK.

"Collaboration" image by twowest.

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Graffiti school

Streetsy posted their educational rundown of 40 Street Artists You Should Know Besides Banksy last fall, but I've just now gotten around to educating myself.  Some would definitely turn my head on the street.  I also found it interesting how mainstream and commercial some of the artists are (I love public art, period, regardless of legality or sponsorship, so I could care less).

Blu, who operates mainly in Buenos Aires, is known mostly for monumental paintings and animations

Fauxreel, who is based in Toronto, is best-known for large, black-and-white posters

Painters (and twin brothers) Os Gemeos, work out of Sao Paolo

NYC-based Revs is an old-school tagger turned sculputural graffiti artist

Thundercut, also a New York artist, is known for vinyl art on street crossing signals

Go forth and school thyself, or at least look around with greater observation.

Thanks, Urban Prankster.

From top to bottom: "Blu 1" image by Icons for Now, untitled image by shoehorn99, "Os Gemeos - Close up" image by jACK TWO, untitled image by shoehorn99 (who is apparently a big graffiti buff),"Obama Walker" image (taken in my new neighborhood!) by hragvartanian.

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