Tweet Soft skills , especially collaboration and networking, will become more important than traditional hard skills. Smart employers have always focused more on attitude than any specific skill-set because they know they can train for a lack of skills and knowledge. Soft skills require time, mentoring, informal learning and management support. MORE >>

I keep mulling over what is happening with the riots, the financial system, and the apparent collapsing of an old world under its own weight. Like many I keep thinking of ways to "sort it". Each time I fall into the trap of coming up with some system or ideology or framework - all the grown up stuff that is meant to be how we fix things. MORE >>

"China and India are phenomenal innovators. We won't just go down, we'll go down big time if we don't watch out. We have to think of the clever new ideas and be ahead of the game while we have the affluence and economic growth to invest in way-out concepts. That includes the MORE >>

Continuing our series of conversations on the future with Gerd Leonhard of The Futures Agency and myself, here we discuss the future of Twitter. TNN will be bigger than CNN, including video and audio on Twitter, produced by the masses with rich filtering. Twitter is an ocean whereas mainstream news is a dripfeed so it is more manageable. MORE >>

We’ve had an endless stream of ‘ I’m a celebrity, let me fix your schools ’ types this year; Jamie Oliver, Toby Young, Joanna Lumley, and now, god help us, Carol Vorderman. felt like more to me.” f) she also has a long history of being partisan on educational politics and attacking the Labour Party. How about Carol Vorderman? What’s that? Call her.” MORE >>