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Heather McGowan

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American writer

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Works
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Top works

  • Friends of the Museum
  • CASI 4
  • Business Model Execution - Navigating with the Pivot (Chapter 12 from Disrupt Together)
  • Navigating Spaces - Tools for Discover (Chapter 9 from Disrupt Together)
  • Role of Learning Styles in Innovation Team Design (Chapter 5 from Disrupt Together)

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Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1964-11-24

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Quotes

  • What I call myself is a Future of Work strategist and a keynote speaker and an author. And Chris Shipley and I wrote The Adaptation Advantage, which came out in 2020. The premise of it was, the future work is really learning and we can't have fixed occupational identities or fixed ideas, we have to essentially get adept at adapting, and that came out just prior to the pandemic. And, oh boy, we did not know how much we were going to need to adapt then!
  • You have to have empathy for folks and say, "I know you gave up all those things. I know what you went through frankly sucked. And the people who are coming along now that you're going to be leading are not going to put up with it, it's not going to work. So I need to have empathy and respect for what you went through, but I've got to tell you, if you want to be successful, you are not going to be successful with those tactics".
  • You can't put the toothpaste back into the tube now."
  • "You'll meet many Gen Zs whose attitude is essentially, 'I'm going to work with a sense of purpose or not at all,'"
  • leaders should understand that employees want to feel like their work has a purpose and act in that way. Yet, if we look at Gallup's research over the past 20 years, we can see the highest rates of disengagement, mental illness, burnout, and loneliness, which are not exactly traits that highlight being purpose-driven.
  • It's not like the old way was working, and now we're suddenly loafing," she joked. "Instead, I think we're now putting work in the right place in our lives and getting the right social connections and support so we can do better work."

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human
Given name
Heather
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Occupation
novelist
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