tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5648820059035540727.post6520742120446230992..comments2024-02-22T00:08:21.406-08:00Comments on Leading Light: Looking Ahead - Are You LOL-ing Around?KateGLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09016771214433267354noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5648820059035540727.post-19702801573229720412012-11-06T09:04:17.596-08:002012-11-06T09:04:17.596-08:00Great to have both of your voices in one post!
I ...Great to have both of your voices in one post!<br /><br />I think this subject is probably the most overlooked (under-rated) by the current established working generations. How many tweets, blog posts, articles, column inches are given to the needs of the future and the potential of newer generations? Even generational analysis & rhetoric is focussed on our differences now and not the potential of the future...<br /><br />I don't know if this is a constant dynamic (issue) between generations or if this is a relatively recent "wrong turn"... My gut feel is that it has just become "too hard" for many to focus on long term future potential as we try to deal with what seems like increasing complexity. Yet that complexity is not going to go away and it might just be the present generations issue... who knows!<br /><br />In the meantime, purposeful fun serves all of us... if you're not getting any, go out and get some!<br /><br />P.S. curious if the above online match playing is mixed gender or male dominated? The gaming I do feels like it's 90% male.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09236773980616751709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5648820059035540727.post-11976596830114012802012-11-05T14:55:37.066-08:002012-11-05T14:55:37.066-08:00Brilliant blog, both you and your son are on the m...Brilliant blog, both you and your son are on the money.<br />It is the kids of today from any background which are the future leaders of industry.<br /><br />There are so many young kids who live in London who did not go to University and so many who will not go to University, yet they are the kind of kids described by you and your son too.<br /><br />The London Evening Standard recently had a real drive at encouraging companies in London to give some kids an apprenticeship, many companies did including banks.<br /><br />However, I believe there are many many more kids in London alone who could benefit by companies taking off their blinkers and having an open mind and appreciate that the kids of today are not lazy and thick because they spend plenty of their day playing computer games. <br />Many of these kids are very smart as mentioned by you both.<br /><br />I work in the financial sector and what often drives me insane is the amount of times I have seen interns spend time with banks because their parents are connected in some way to some senior individual at the bank. <br />The banks should be going out to all the council estates around inner and greater London and offer many of these kids an internship, a shot at doing something and earning a living.<br /><br />Kids today are like lightening on all the games, they write software, they design games, they are very very sharp.<br /><br />Once again, a fabulous blog, more please!Stevewal63https://www.blogger.com/profile/01769071874043270159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5648820059035540727.post-80003945340456702462012-11-04T01:17:38.794-08:002012-11-04T01:17:38.794-08:00*Stands up and applauds*
This is an absolutely su...*Stands up and applauds*<br /><br />This is an absolutely superb post, Kate!<br /><br />You should be proud, both of having written such a clear-eyed and forward-looking introduction, and of your son's remarkable writing talents.<br /><br />I particularly like your point about how "school leavers, with their honed abilities to text and observe occurrences on multiple screens simultaneously, were already demonstrating the skills we would require going forward. We and they could benefit from the skills they had developed through their own activities with friends and areas of interest."<br /><br />If it's of any interest, I wrote a post the other week that touches on similar subject matter. It's a summary of a "track" lead by @JohnSumser at last month's #TRULondon unconference, in which he argued that Generation Y offers a huge, untapped resource of technical ability. As I say in the post, Sumser argued that "through gaming, the 'video game generation' has effectively built up a wealth of skills that are of great potential value to organisations, but which are uniformly discounted by employers as they are not recognised by formal qualifications."<br /><br />Here's a link to the post: http://www.xperthr.co.uk/blogs/employment-intelligence/2012/10/trulondon-2012-3-how-hrtech-ca-1.html<br /><br />Please keep the great posts coming, Kate. <br /><br />And if he doesn't already, please also encourage your son to start a blog of his own!Michael Cartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09500445252850339161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5648820059035540727.post-24860625518151273282012-11-03T14:52:37.251-07:002012-11-03T14:52:37.251-07:00Nice post. I have a gamer here, and although he...Nice post. I have a gamer here, and although he's actually currently cooling off it a bit (aged nearly 17), I've always thought that it's - if not exactly a good thing - less of a negative thing than a lot of people assume. Very male though (in my experience) - where are the female employees for whom these skills might be relevant going to come from?Melnoreply@blogger.com