#generation flux

[livemessy]

Only when we embrace the idea that messiness is to be accepted, even cheered, will we be ready to tackle our own impossible tasks.

Robert Safian.  Why business is a mess [and I’m glad]. Fast Company.  May 2015.

[girlsarethenewboys]

Generation Flux.

I always try to have a weeks worth of blogs lined up, and almost always do I succeed. But as you can see from today it doesn’t always happen. Although I have my initial post still in the works in another tab, I came across this post on Rach’sblog, and…

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[gettingshotsup-blog]

Embracing the Chaos

This has been one of the strangest college basketball seasons in recent memory for many reasons. 

No team held on to the #1 seed for more than two weeks

UNC went most of the season unranked, while New Mexico, St. Louis, VCU, and Butler sat in the 25 comfortably

Miami won the ACC outright for the first time

Gonzaga’s best player is a big white guy with long hair and weird facial hair...actually, that sounds familiar

The NCAA tournament has been even stranger.

Harvard won

At least two #1 seeds will not make the Elite 8

Florida Gulf Coast is in the sweet 16, and we’re more likely to have known about the coach’s wife than the athletic program

Nothing makes sense anymore, and we shouldn’t expect it to start to. This is not exclusive to college basketball--everything is chaos, and we need to start to embrace it. 

Fast Company has a great series called Generation Flux. It claims that “modern business is pure chaos”, and highlights the leaders that are trying to make sense of it. Just as it’s getting more difficult to pick a bracket, Aaron Levie, founder of box, claims this is happening in business as well. He explains, “Thanks to technology, the newcomer may be as well or even better equipped. Choosing the winners can seem chaotic, even random.” When you think about basketball from this perspective, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Butler was in the Final Four two years in a row. Or, that Harvard beat New Mexico in the first round. Or, that Florida Gulf Coast DOMINATED Georgetown AND San Diego State.

Instead of being frustrated that nothing makes sense, we should get excited that there are new, strange ways to find success. It’s no coincidence FGCU can beat some of the best programs in NCAA history--they have a unique style of play and nobody saw them coming. They have found a way to capitalize on the chaos. The young leaders of generation flux are now at the forefront of disruption and innovation because they too have capitalized on it. 

So, for the sake of all of my peers who are trying to make an impact in a world run by grown-ups, bring on the chaos. 

[stephcosta]

Generation Flux...it is a psychographic, not a demographic - you can be any age and be GenFlux. Their characteristics are clear: an embrace of adaptability and flexibility; an openness to learning from anywhere; decisiveness tempered by the knowledge that business life today can shift radically every threes months or so.

Fast Company, Secrets of the Flux Leader, Robert Safian

[missherico-blog]

it's our time

[ia-alfredopassos]

Generation Flux

Modern business is pure chaos. This series is about the people who are adapting to disruption, and succeeding.

Read more, here

[endydaniyanto]

Generation Flux

No, they're not a band. Would be a really cool one if they were though.

Looking Class A sharp.

[kev-trinh]

"I'm skill hoarding. Every time I update my resume, I see the path that I didn't know would be. You keep throwing things into your backpack, and eventually you'll have everything in your tool kit."

Raina Kumra, 34

Codirector of Innovation, Broadcasting Board of Governors  The documentary filmmaker, digital strategy guru at Wieden+Kennedy, and founder of Light Up Malawi is now the Codirector of Innovation at a federal agency, The Broadcasting Board of Governors. 

Kumra started out in film school. She made two documentaries, including one in South America and India, and then took a job as a video editor for Scientific American Frontiers. "After each trip to shoot footage," she says, "I'd come back and find that the editing tools had all changed." So she decided to learn computer programming. "I figured I had to get my tech on," says Kumra, who signed up for New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. She then moved into the ad world, doing digital campaigns at BBH, R/GA, and Wieden+Kennedy before launching her own agency. Along the way she picked up a degree from Harvard's design school, taught at the University of Amsterdam, and started a not-for-profit called Light Up Malawi.