Phillip Brown, Anthony Hesketh, and Sarah Williams
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199269532
- eISBN:
- 9780191699412
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269532.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, HRM / IR, Political Economy
The challenge confronting governments around the world today is to enhance the employability of the workforce. Every effort must be made to expand access to higher education, disregard social ...
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The challenge confronting governments around the world today is to enhance the employability of the workforce. Every effort must be made to expand access to higher education, disregard social circumstances, gender, and other such barriers to talent, and to harness human creativity and enterprise to meet the demands of the new economy. However, people who have attained higher education are having trouble finding jobs, with rising stakes for the winners and losers. This book examines what determines the outcome of this race when a degree loses its badge of distinction. It shows how some graduates are playing ‘the game’ to win a competitive advantage, and what really happens in the selection events of leading-edge employers. It also argues that talent is being mismanaged by employers that have yet to come to terms with the realities and possibilities of mass higher education.Less
The challenge confronting governments around the world today is to enhance the employability of the workforce. Every effort must be made to expand access to higher education, disregard social circumstances, gender, and other such barriers to talent, and to harness human creativity and enterprise to meet the demands of the new economy. However, people who have attained higher education are having trouble finding jobs, with rising stakes for the winners and losers. This book examines what determines the outcome of this race when a degree loses its badge of distinction. It shows how some graduates are playing ‘the game’ to win a competitive advantage, and what really happens in the selection events of leading-edge employers. It also argues that talent is being mismanaged by employers that have yet to come to terms with the realities and possibilities of mass higher education.
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804756433
- eISBN:
- 9780804773416
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804756433.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
In the United States, human creativity is historically understood to be motivated by economic concerns. However, this perspective fails to account for the reality that human creativity is also often ...
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In the United States, human creativity is historically understood to be motivated by economic concerns. However, this perspective fails to account for the reality that human creativity is also often the result of internal motivations having nothing to do with money. This book addresses what motivates human creativity and how the law governing authors' rights should be shaped in response to these motivations. On a practical level, it illustrates how integrating a fuller appreciation of the inspirational dimension of the creative process will allow us to think more expansively about legal protections for authors. Many types of creators currently lack the legal ability to compel attribution for their work, to prevent misattribution, and to safeguard their work from unwanted modifications. Drawing from a number of diverse sources, including literary, philosophical, and religious works, the book offers real solutions for crafting legal measures that facilitate an author's ability to safeguard his or her work without entirely sacrificing the intellectual property policies in practice in the United States today.Less
In the United States, human creativity is historically understood to be motivated by economic concerns. However, this perspective fails to account for the reality that human creativity is also often the result of internal motivations having nothing to do with money. This book addresses what motivates human creativity and how the law governing authors' rights should be shaped in response to these motivations. On a practical level, it illustrates how integrating a fuller appreciation of the inspirational dimension of the creative process will allow us to think more expansively about legal protections for authors. Many types of creators currently lack the legal ability to compel attribution for their work, to prevent misattribution, and to safeguard their work from unwanted modifications. Drawing from a number of diverse sources, including literary, philosophical, and religious works, the book offers real solutions for crafting legal measures that facilitate an author's ability to safeguard his or her work without entirely sacrificing the intellectual property policies in practice in the United States today.
John Hoffecker
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231147040
- eISBN:
- 9780231518482
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231147040.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology
This book explores the origin and growth of the human mind, drawing on archaeology, history, and the fossil record. It suggests that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans ...
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This book explores the origin and growth of the human mind, drawing on archaeology, history, and the fossil record. It suggests that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans developed a feedback relationship among their hands, brains, and tools that evolved into the capacity to externalize thoughts in the form of shaped stone objects. When anatomically modern humans evolved a parallel capacity to externalize thoughts as symbolic language, individual brains within social groups became integrated into a “neocortical Internet,” or super-brain, giving birth to the mind. Noting that archaeological traces of symbolism coincide with evidence of the ability to generate novel technology, the book contends that human creativity, as well as higher order consciousness, is a product of the superbrain. It equates the subsequent growth of the mind with human history, which began in Africa more than 50,000 years ago. As anatomically modern humans spread across the globe, adapting to a variety of climates and habitats, they redesigned themselves technologically and created alternative realities through tools, language, and art. The book connects the rise of civilization to a hierarchical reorganization of the super-brain, triggered by explosive population growth. Subsequent human history reflects to varying degrees the suppression of the mind's creative powers by the rigid hierarchies of nationstates and empires, constraining the further accumulation of knowledge. The modern world emerged after 1200 from the fragments of the Roman Empire, whose collapse had eliminated a central that could thwart innovation. The text concludes with speculation about the possibility of artificial intelligence and the consequences of a mind liberated from its organic antecedents to exist in an independent, nonbiological form.Less
This book explores the origin and growth of the human mind, drawing on archaeology, history, and the fossil record. It suggests that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans developed a feedback relationship among their hands, brains, and tools that evolved into the capacity to externalize thoughts in the form of shaped stone objects. When anatomically modern humans evolved a parallel capacity to externalize thoughts as symbolic language, individual brains within social groups became integrated into a “neocortical Internet,” or super-brain, giving birth to the mind. Noting that archaeological traces of symbolism coincide with evidence of the ability to generate novel technology, the book contends that human creativity, as well as higher order consciousness, is a product of the superbrain. It equates the subsequent growth of the mind with human history, which began in Africa more than 50,000 years ago. As anatomically modern humans spread across the globe, adapting to a variety of climates and habitats, they redesigned themselves technologically and created alternative realities through tools, language, and art. The book connects the rise of civilization to a hierarchical reorganization of the super-brain, triggered by explosive population growth. Subsequent human history reflects to varying degrees the suppression of the mind's creative powers by the rigid hierarchies of nationstates and empires, constraining the further accumulation of knowledge. The modern world emerged after 1200 from the fragments of the Roman Empire, whose collapse had eliminated a central that could thwart innovation. The text concludes with speculation about the possibility of artificial intelligence and the consequences of a mind liberated from its organic antecedents to exist in an independent, nonbiological form.
John F. Hoffecker
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231147040
- eISBN:
- 9780231518482
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231147040.003.0004
- Subject:
- Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology
This chapter begins by illustrating V. Gordon Childe's role in shifting the subject of archaeology from artifacts to people. In his book Society and Knowledge, Childe presents a theory of progress ...
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This chapter begins by illustrating V. Gordon Childe's role in shifting the subject of archaeology from artifacts to people. In his book Society and Knowledge, Childe presents a theory of progress based on the observation that human societies increase their mastery of the environment by creating new technologies. The book's central theme is human creativity, which Childe used as framework for interpreting archaeological records as a historical narrative. The archaeological record of the first 40,000 years of the modern mind is referred to as the Upper Paleolithic. The chapter reviews how Upper Paleolithic history recognizes the accumulation of knowledge as the essence of the historical process. By the later stages of the period, humans came to understand more about biology, chemistry, and physics, while artifacts have progressed over time—all of which provide a record of how knowledge was developed during the Upper Paleolithic.Less
This chapter begins by illustrating V. Gordon Childe's role in shifting the subject of archaeology from artifacts to people. In his book Society and Knowledge, Childe presents a theory of progress based on the observation that human societies increase their mastery of the environment by creating new technologies. The book's central theme is human creativity, which Childe used as framework for interpreting archaeological records as a historical narrative. The archaeological record of the first 40,000 years of the modern mind is referred to as the Upper Paleolithic. The chapter reviews how Upper Paleolithic history recognizes the accumulation of knowledge as the essence of the historical process. By the later stages of the period, humans came to understand more about biology, chemistry, and physics, while artifacts have progressed over time—all of which provide a record of how knowledge was developed during the Upper Paleolithic.
David Wood
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780823283545
- eISBN:
- 9780823286249
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823283545.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter presents an account of temporal phronesis that reflects a somewhat more chastened view of human creativity, drawing on Alfred North Whitehead's original and productive understanding of ...
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This chapter presents an account of temporal phronesis that reflects a somewhat more chastened view of human creativity, drawing on Alfred North Whitehead's original and productive understanding of natural process, time, and creativity. This new temporal phronesis would be a major contribution to habits of thought, and indeed practice, which would not merely transcend the mechanical but move to another level the creative engagement with the environment that Whitehead calls for. To be out of touch, to fail to be attuned to the complexity of time is not just a cognitive but an ethical failure, where the ethical is to be understood not deontologically or instrumentally but in relation to ethos, or dwelling. Such a phronesis would capture both the temporal complexity of the real, and of people's engagement with it, and is central to the ecological imagination. It is only by articulating and enacting such complexity that people can achieve the attunement required for an environmentally sustainable ethos. This attunement is itself a creative accomplishment of the human organism, even as it sets limits to an unbridled sense of the transformability of nature.Less
This chapter presents an account of temporal phronesis that reflects a somewhat more chastened view of human creativity, drawing on Alfred North Whitehead's original and productive understanding of natural process, time, and creativity. This new temporal phronesis would be a major contribution to habits of thought, and indeed practice, which would not merely transcend the mechanical but move to another level the creative engagement with the environment that Whitehead calls for. To be out of touch, to fail to be attuned to the complexity of time is not just a cognitive but an ethical failure, where the ethical is to be understood not deontologically or instrumentally but in relation to ethos, or dwelling. Such a phronesis would capture both the temporal complexity of the real, and of people's engagement with it, and is central to the ecological imagination. It is only by articulating and enacting such complexity that people can achieve the attunement required for an environmentally sustainable ethos. This attunement is itself a creative accomplishment of the human organism, even as it sets limits to an unbridled sense of the transformability of nature.
Paul Shrivastava and Matt Statler
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804770095
- eISBN:
- 9780804778640
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804770095.003.0019
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies
This chapter cites some observations about the reality of the global financial crisis. First, all the major economies of the world are scrambling to stem the damages of the financial crisis. Second, ...
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This chapter cites some observations about the reality of the global financial crisis. First, all the major economies of the world are scrambling to stem the damages of the financial crisis. Second, there is a continued failure of national and global leadership to seize the opportunity for radical transformation of economies and organizations toward sustainable, creative, and reliable development. Third, some economies, such as India and Canada, have been more resilient than others in dealing with the financial crisis. Fourth, there has been a lack of focus and use of human creativity and potential in past economic regimes. Many of the book's chapters expose false assumptions of traditional finance and management theories and practices, opening up alternative visions of how the postcrisis recovery might unfold. This chapter closes with an account of how the editors are personally navigating the post-financial crisis situation in their own work and networks.Less
This chapter cites some observations about the reality of the global financial crisis. First, all the major economies of the world are scrambling to stem the damages of the financial crisis. Second, there is a continued failure of national and global leadership to seize the opportunity for radical transformation of economies and organizations toward sustainable, creative, and reliable development. Third, some economies, such as India and Canada, have been more resilient than others in dealing with the financial crisis. Fourth, there has been a lack of focus and use of human creativity and potential in past economic regimes. Many of the book's chapters expose false assumptions of traditional finance and management theories and practices, opening up alternative visions of how the postcrisis recovery might unfold. This chapter closes with an account of how the editors are personally navigating the post-financial crisis situation in their own work and networks.
Robyn Marasco
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231168663
- eISBN:
- 9780231538893
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231168663.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter focuses on Georges Bataille's notion of chance. This notion made its first appearances in Bataille's essays of the 1930s, most notably in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, an important document ...
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This chapter focuses on Georges Bataille's notion of chance. This notion made its first appearances in Bataille's essays of the 1930s, most notably in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, an important document from 1937 that deals with questions of politics, the fragmentation of the human being, the limits of action, and the aleatory experience of freedom. The essay suggests that chance is the potentiality for politics, structuring the field of relations between individuals and groups. It also reiterates that with love, and the world created by lovers, “what determines the election of the loved one—so that the possibility of another choice represented logically, inspires horror—is in fact reducible to a series of chances.” Thus, this chance-element in the experience of love gives force to human creativity and will to exist.Less
This chapter focuses on Georges Bataille's notion of chance. This notion made its first appearances in Bataille's essays of the 1930s, most notably in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, an important document from 1937 that deals with questions of politics, the fragmentation of the human being, the limits of action, and the aleatory experience of freedom. The essay suggests that chance is the potentiality for politics, structuring the field of relations between individuals and groups. It also reiterates that with love, and the world created by lovers, “what determines the election of the loved one—so that the possibility of another choice represented logically, inspires horror—is in fact reducible to a series of chances.” Thus, this chance-element in the experience of love gives force to human creativity and will to exist.
