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.
