Comments on: Question About the Future: Recruiting the Retired, Our Aging Workforce http://www.futurist.com/2007/05/13/question-about-the-future-recruiting-the-retired-our-aging-workforce/ This is the blog of Glen Hiemstra, futurist speaker, keynote speaker, futurist consultant, and Founder of futurist.com Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:36:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cooler Bag http://www.futurist.com/2007/05/13/question-about-the-future-recruiting-the-retired-our-aging-workforce/comment-page-1/#comment-145864 Cooler Bag Tue, 05 May 2009 09:42:38 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/05/13/question-about-the-future-recruiting-the-retired-our-aging-workforce/#comment-145864 I like it very much I like it very much

]]> By: Alvaro http://www.futurist.com/2007/05/13/question-about-the-future-recruiting-the-retired-our-aging-workforce/comment-page-1/#comment-13046 Alvaro Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:34:55 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/05/13/question-about-the-future-recruiting-the-retired-our-aging-workforce/#comment-13046 Hello Brenda: Great post on a very important topic. An aspect that is usually neglected is the potential for well-targeted cognitive training to maintain our skills in top shape as we age. You may enjoy the article Ten Important Truths About Aging just published in The Complete Lawyer, http://www.thecompletelawyer.com/volume3/issue4/article.php?ppaid=3811, and co-authored by renowned neuroscientits Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg and myself: Aging Means Lifelong Development, Not Automatic Decline Some Skills Improve With Age Some Skills Need To Be Continuously Nurtured And Trained Not All Instances Of Forgetting Are Of Equal Concern We Are In Control, To A Large Extent There Are Four “Pillars Of Brain Health” Cross-Training Our Brains Builds Up Cognitive Reserve Computer-Based Brain Exercise Programs Can Help Embrace “Good” Stress; Eliminate “Bad” Stress Retirement Is Overrated Hello Brenda:

Great post on a very important topic. An aspect that is usually neglected is the potential for well-targeted cognitive training to maintain our skills in top shape as we age. You may enjoy the article Ten Important Truths About Aging just published in The Complete Lawyer, http://www.thecompletelawyer.com/volume3/issue4/article.php?ppaid=3811, and co-authored by renowned neuroscientits Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg and myself:

Aging Means Lifelong Development, Not Automatic Decline
Some Skills Improve With Age
Some Skills Need To Be Continuously Nurtured And Trained
Not All Instances Of Forgetting Are Of Equal Concern
We Are In Control, To A Large Extent
There Are Four “Pillars Of Brain Health”
Cross-Training Our Brains Builds Up Cognitive Reserve
Computer-Based Brain Exercise Programs Can Help
Embrace “Good” Stress; Eliminate “Bad” Stress
Retirement Is Overrated

]]> By: Nelson Guirado http://www.futurist.com/2007/05/13/question-about-the-future-recruiting-the-retired-our-aging-workforce/comment-page-1/#comment-12659 Nelson Guirado Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:02:27 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/05/13/question-about-the-future-recruiting-the-retired-our-aging-workforce/#comment-12659 Thanks Thanks

]]> By: Asymmetric http://www.futurist.com/2007/05/13/question-about-the-future-recruiting-the-retired-our-aging-workforce/comment-page-1/#comment-7918 Asymmetric Sat, 19 May 2007 18:06:30 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/05/13/question-about-the-future-recruiting-the-retired-our-aging-workforce/#comment-7918 The problems is that people see immigrants as being either good or bad when the answer is much more complicated. http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/asymmetric/2007/05/19/asymmetric_immigration_solution_part_one The problems is that people see immigrants as being either good or bad when the answer is much more complicated.

http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/asymmetric/2007/05/19/asymmetric_immigration_solution_part_one

]]> By: Steven Ashley http://www.futurist.com/2007/05/13/question-about-the-future-recruiting-the-retired-our-aging-workforce/comment-page-1/#comment-7394 Steven Ashley Sun, 13 May 2007 04:42:37 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/05/13/question-about-the-future-recruiting-the-retired-our-aging-workforce/#comment-7394 On the Aging Workforce question, I think the greatest problem, the upcoming shortage in Information Technology professionals can be traced directly back to the MBA's and their need to improve corporate performance through outsourcing since the year 2000. It created a climate of fear among I.T. professionals, a lot of them left the industry an it still isn't considered a wise choice to major in I.T. today in college. There are a lot of people in their 50's and 60's and very few in their 20's in the industry so I see big problems in the future. On the Aging Workforce question, I think the greatest problem, the upcoming shortage in Information Technology professionals can be traced directly back to the MBA’s and their need to improve corporate performance through outsourcing since the year 2000.

It created a climate of fear among I.T. professionals, a lot of them left the industry an it still isn’t considered a wise choice to major in I.T. today in college. There are a lot of people in their 50′s and 60′s and very few in their 20′s in the industry so I see big problems in the future.

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