At a youthful 55 years, Mr Nambu has expounded this viewpoint in a dozen books about business practices and workforce trends.
Cultural historian Richard White has written a history of tourism in Australia and told the Canberra Times that it was workforce trends, especially the participation of women in the jobs market, that's behind a move to "shorter and sharper" holidays.
The best approach is to make your best guess based on solid workforce trends.
"There's no consensus whatsoever on what 'cool' looks like," says Michael S. Mitchell, an employment lawyer in New Orleans and editor of the newsletter Hospitality Workforce Trends.
The National Science Board (NSB), the governing body of the National Science Foundation (NSF), analyzed national science and engineering (S&E) workforce trends and recommended policy directions in its recent report, The Science and Engineering Workforce: Realizing America's Potential.
And Ira Wolfe, president of Success Performance Solutions and expert in workforce trends, estimated that close to 50percentt of jobs will be extinct within the next 20 years.
The Shriver Report's release is coinciding with National Work & Family Month - presenting us with an opportunity to look more critically at how workforce trends impact our personal and family lives.
Izzo has travelled around the world researching, advising and speaking on issues related to workforce trends, positive corporate cultures, professional work-life balance, creating change and connecting with like-minded leaders.
My keynotes and workshops have recently covered how to sell to Gen Y, the importance of feedback, how to coach employees rather than manage them, emotional intelligence, our country's ever present gender bias, listening skills, energy management, managing Generation X (born between 1965-1980), and Generation Y (born between 1981 and 2001), and the four major workforce trends headed our way.
