Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

If you’re a young male hothead who just can’t follow orders, and you have your own ideas about how everything should be done, you’re probably going to have an ever-tougher time in the labor markets of the future. There won’t be much room for a “rebel without a cause” or, for that matter, a rebel with a cause. It’s not surprising that teen employmen

That means better jobs and higher wages for a lot of women in this new world of work, without a comparable upgrade for a lot of the men.

When it comes to these complex tasks, people have to know what they are doing, they have to want to learn, and they have to want to cooperate with their fellow workers.

It sounds a little silly, but making high earners feel better in just about every part of their lives will be a major source of job growth in the future. At some point it is hard to sell more physical stuff to high earners, yet there is usually just a bit more room to make them feel better. Better about the world. Better about themselves. Better ab

Team production makes the quality of “conscientiousness” a more important quality in laborers.

Despite all the talk about STEM fields, I see marketing as the seminal sector for our future economy.

Again, it is about blending the cognitive strengths of humans and computers.

The growing value of conscientiousness in the workplace helps women do better than men at work and in colleges and universities.

Computer nerds will indeed do well, but not everyone will have to become a computer nerd.