Play by Play: Solving Problems, Changing Lives
by Gary Bolles
Learn strategies for having a greater impact on the range of challenges we face today, so you can help others more effectively.
What you'll learn
Your technical and other skills can have a tremendous impact on helping others to solve problems. In this course, Play by Play: Solving Problems, Changing Lives, you’ll first understand the three kinds of problems we face in our world today. We’ll explore the kinds of strategies that people develop when they use their heads and they use their hearts. We’ll apply those strategies to situations like working in a team, and we’ll talk about the kinds of tools you can use to help have a greater impact in the world.
About the author
Gary A. Bolles is a San Francisco-based writer, lecturer, consultant and entrepreneur focused on initiatives with impact, especially related to the future of work & learning.
As adjunct Chair for the Future of Work for Singularity University, he leads the organization?s efforts to empower a global community to create an abundant future of work and learning. As a partner in the consulting firm Charrette LLC, he helps clients to identify and understand trends affecting organizations and markets, t... morehrough lectures and strategy consulting. And as co-founder of eParachute.com, he helps job-hunters & career changers, from youth to 50+, with online and in-person programs inspired by ?What Color Is Your Parachute??, the best-selling career book of all time. He also chairs FulcrumConference.com, an event focused on actionable strategies for the future of work and learning.
Throughout the years, Bolles has produced a variety of impact-related strategic initiatives, conferences and events. He is a co-founder of SoCap, SocialCapitalMarkets.net, the premier gathering for impact entrepreneurs and investors. He was the co-producer of DGREE.org, a 2010 conference focused on the future of higher education; Silicon Valley Meets the U.N.; the US Broadband Coalition; and of Closing The Gap: Strategies for an Inclusive Economy. And he is the catalyst for Fulcrum, the Conference on Solutions for the Future of Work, November 2019, fulcrumconference.com.
Bolles is the former COO of Evolve Software, the former VP Marketing for Network Products Corporation, and the former editorial director for six technology magazines, including Inter@ctive Week and Yahoo! Internet Life.