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"Tech Under 20 is run for students by students - because students are the ones who know best what they need to develop."

Denys talks to Kyle Newcombe and myself about the Tech Under 20 Cup challenge, the Pitch Yourself event, student engagement via the school chapters.

Denys shared his views on:

• Value of sustained commitment to a project or cause
• What Generation Z expects from the Future of Work
• How Tech Under 20 offers mentoring, internship and leadership opportunities
• The idea behind the Tech Under 20 Cup Challenge

The 2020 TU20 Cup Challenge is focused on Climate Action.

Make - the effort to search out local groups of talented youngsters who like to lead
Take - Offer your support - especially internships, summer jobs and mentoring
Talk - Be full of curiosity. Discover the technology and passions that fill their minds and their days.

If you are inspired by this episode please take some action, and share it with others.

The full video interview is available at https://youtu.be/lAmzAlL3E0g

For the full transcript of the poem and links visit my blog:

Linkov: A GenZ's take on the value of commitment

website: Tiltthefuture.com

Host: Karena de Souza & Kyle Newcombe
Producer: Karena de Souza & Kyle Newcombe
Transcript: Descript
Editor: Karena de Souza
Music for this episode: Bright Future by Silent Partner
Technology: taped on Zoom via MacBook Air, using Audacity

Trailer Episode: Want to know why I am so inspired by Generation Z?

While much of this set of podcast episodes focus on the new technologies that young adults are leveraging in order to solve problems, we also explore the other pillars of my work - well-being, foundation and transition skills.

This young generation are inventive, creative and itching to solve the problems small and large. I find such talent really engaging and motivating - so please feel free to recommend potential interviewees for future episodes.

Click here for the full transcript and show notes for this episode 'Never too young to lead'

Please leave your comments on this site, or on LinkedIn.

website: Tiltthefuture.com

Host: Karena de Souza
Producer: Karena de Souza
Music for this episode: Bright Future by Silent Partner
Technology: taped on MacBook Air, using Audacity

Think outside the box is an idiom for Critical Thinking.

Which means there is a box.

We can only break out of the confines of our box if we know what that box looks like from the inside first.

That is why the first step is mastery.

For the full transcript of this episode, plus a longer think with bonus links & material, visit the partner blog:

Think outside the box

website: Tiltthefuture.com

Host: Karena de Souza
Producer: Karena de Souza
Music for this episode: Bright Future by Silent Partner
Technology: taped on MacBook Air, using Audacity

As this skill becomes sought after by employers who are anxious to have independent, confident, creative minds in a workplace that is constantly evolving, it is good to know that for those who do not have critical thinking as an innate skill, it can be nurtured.

Articles referenced:

World Economic Forum: 'This soft skill will boost your employability'
HBR: A Short Guide to Building Your Team’s Critical Thinking Skills

Share you thoughts on this topic with those around you. Debate if critical thinking can be nurtured. Leave a comment on this site, or on LinkedIn.

For the full transcript, bonus material and links to the articles visit my blog:
The skill employers are searching for

website: Tiltthefuture.com

Host: Karena de Souza
Producer: Karena de Souza
Music for this episode: Bright Future by Silent Partner
Technology: taped on MacBook Air, using Audacity

The math is no longer working.

It used to be a supply-demand equation, but suddenly we have low unemployment, and yet more educated Gen Z and Millennials remain under- or un-employed.

Turns out that equation has been replaced by a matching game.

What are the causes and what can we do about it?

Patrick Ow's article 'The Future of Work for Millennials (and Gen Z) is bleak unless ... explores these topics.

What attracted me to this article was also its discussion on the potential impact on mental wellness if we cannot figure out how to address this matter.

Join us for a discussion on this topic and explore 5 ideas on what Millennials and Gen Z can do to help themselves stay repeatedly employed.

For the full transcript, bonus material and links visit my blog:

Matching Game

website: Tiltthefuture.com

Host: Karena de Souza
Producer: Karena de Souza
Music for this episode: Bright Future by Silent Partner
Technology: taped on MacBook Air, using Audacity

This morning I woke to a number of 'new's:

• The Canadian elections had resulted in a new minority government 
• A friend had started a new job
• Another friend announced the birth of their new baby - and the start of their journey into the realm of being parents

Each brings with it a transition and the need to find a new footing.

For more details visit my website tiltthefuture.com and read

New beginnings

Malcolm Gladwell is the host of the podcast Revisionist History.  As such, he had a distinct feeling  for the audio production of his latest book Talking To Strangers. 

It is a great experience to hear such a great orator, a recognizable voice, read his book. The texts are interspersed with the actual audio clips or interviews, making it all the more realistic.

For more details, visit my website tiltthefuture.com and read:

Malcolm #TalkingToStrangers Audiobook

This book is a debate of how we try and make sense of strangers. How we make an assumption of trust in order to make quick decisions as we go about creating efficiency in our regular lives.

Based on Tim Levine's Default to Trust premise, Gladwell analyzed why we humans seek to trust.

By breaking down a number of high-profile cases, he analyzes how some of the most deprave situations came about. It is scary reading.

There is a cost to defaulting to trust - that sometimes we get betrayed.

But what is the effect to us if we choose instead to question every human interaction? What does that do to us?

How does this knowledge affect our daily networking decisions as we go about in the Future of Work?

For more detail go to my website tiltthefuture.com and read:

Malcolm on Trust: Default to truth

Face to face interviews are not the best predictor of someone's abilities. And after doing the research for his book 'Talking to Strangers - What we should know about the people we don't know' Malcolm Gladwell has stopped doing face to face interviews for his personal organization.

Based on the interview of @Gladwell by Heather Reisman at UofT Rotman's School of Business  Big Ideas Speaker Series as he was doing his book tour for #TalkingToStrangers

For more read:

karenadesouza.com/malcolm-on-job-interviews

Few things will compel me to wake at the break of dawn to find myself on the early train into Toronto.

Malcolm Gladwell is a man who speaks my language. The language of outliers and tipping points. He is driven by data, patterns, anomalies and interrupts. And people. And he talks in stories.

Sound familiar?

Here is a riff on his book cover for his latest book #TalkingToStrangers.

For more visit: 

https://karenadesouza.com/coffee-with-malcolm-gladwell/

Today I crossed 1000 downloads of my podcast.

Thank  you for helping me achieve this milestone!

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