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

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

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.

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

This is the wave that will lift you or that will dump you.

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

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.

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

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.