Episode description
We spend most of our time on this podcast talking about the accounting and finance profession – what the future looks like for those of us who work within this rarified profession and how to help others make sense of their finances, their numbers, or their future.
But we’re not the only ones struggling in this area. Well-off and working class, unemployed and entrepreneurial, engaged and disengaged, C-suite and on the dole: everybody is struggling with how to make sense of this changing and complex world.
Things have never been more uncertain than they are today, and although change is already happening at a mind-bending pace, it’s only going to speed up going forward. So if you’re not keeping up today, your odds of keeping up tomorrow are slim to none.
Luckily, few people have a better perspective on all of this than our guest, Alec Ross, author of the New York Times best-selling book The Industries of the Future and one of the nation’s leading experts on innovation. He served for four years as the senior advisor for innovation for Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State, and he is currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University who serves as an advisor to investors, corporations, and government leaders.
Alec has traveled the world in search of what sets innovative thought leaders apart from the rest of us, and he has some concrete ideas about what we need to be doing and thinking about going forward to give us a competitive advantage over everybody else.
To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit blionline.org/blog.
Resources:
- Learn more at AlecRoss.com
- Read: The Industries of the Future
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alec.ross1
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/alecjross
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossalec/
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