TELL ME MORE from NPR News interview with Richard Florida on the future of aging in America. By the year 2050, one in five Americans will be over the age of 65. That’s according to the U.S. Census. And when we talk about getting older, most of us think about, what? Saving for retirement, Medicare, Social Security.
Disruptive Women recently sat down with our August 2013 Man of the Month, Richard Florida, Professor, University of Toronto & NYU and Senior Editor and The Atlantic Cities, the world’s leading media site devoted to cities and urban affairs, to chat about what to expect in town near you.
Fashion icons Kimberly Newport Mimran, President, Pink Tartan, and Joe Mimran, Creative Director, Joe Fresh, offer simple tips on how to throw a stylish black and white backyard soiree.
In this groundbreaking new book, Upgrade, Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary, Rana Florida shares their formula, giving you the tools to achieve unimagined success in work and life.
Rana Florida Rana is the author of Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary. She also writes the Creative Spaces series for HGTV and the Huffington Post, where she highlights public and private spaces that epitomize creativity, innovation, design and new ways of thinking.
In her new book, Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary, Florida outlines her seven principles for achieving life and business goals. One of those seven principles is collaboration, which she describes as “understanding that every leader had to engage and inspire a team.”
Florida: With 8 million New Yorkers increasingly divided between haves and have-nots, the next mayor must ward off destructive class warfare.
NYU Global Research Professor Richard Florida, one of the world’s leading authorities on economic competitiveness, cultural and technological innovation, and demographic trends, was recently named among the “World’s Most Influential Thinkers” by a study published in the MIT Technology Review that ranked today’s most influential thought leaders.
Viewed by many as the world’s leading urban theorist, Richard Florida was in Ireland this summer, and told Ann O’Dea that tolerance was a key ingredient in any creative economy.
Entertaining expert Rana Florida threw the perfect end of summer party. Learn how to create the look!
Psychologist Dale Atkins and Rana Florida, author of Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary, came on the Today Show to talk with Kathie Lee and Hoda about letting go of friends.
“I don’t care when you work, how you work, or where you work.” In an excerpt from her upcoming book, author Rana Florida explores unconventional ideas for letting employees be their best selves.
Reading List by Margaret Jaworski, this book will motivate you to get an Upgrade.
A new network analysis reveals the thinkers who most influence the rest of us and suggests ways to join this elite list
Rana Florida on The Today Show talking about her book “Upgrade: Taking Your Life and Work from Ordinary to Extraordinary,” in which she provides step-by-step tips on how to enhance your life, maximize your productivity and achieve your goals.
LDRLB shares its 2013 top 50 professors on twitter, broken into lists around leadership, innovation, and strategy, as well as five at-large professors.
The Kozouz sisters start a new advice column with the Detroit news where they answer readers’ questions on love, dating and family every Tuesday.
Rana Florida conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, relationships, their careers and more. This week’s conversation is with President Bill Clinton.
Is your business just doing OK? Has your job become routine and ordinary?
If you answered yes, then you’re ready for an upgrade, according to Rana Florida, CEO of consulting firm Creative Class Group. “A lot of us are living through a state of managed dissatisfaction,” she laments. Naturally, that’s no way to achieve success.