Chartered Manager is the hallmark of a professional manager. It puts you on an equal footing with established professions such as accountants and engineers. Qualifications prove that you know the theory. Chartered status proves that you are using it on the job and getting results. Steve Murray is the living embodiment of this ideal and is a nomination for Chartered Manager of the Year 2010

1. The Value of Chartered Manager Steve Murray Director of Operations Fulcrum

4. Did You Know . . .

5. Sometimes size does matter.

6. If you’re one in a million in China . . .

7. There are 1,300 people just like you.

8. In India, there are 1,100 people just like you.

9. The 25% of Chinese population with the highest IQ’s . . .

10. Is greater than the total population of North America.

11. Did you know . . .

12. If you shipped every single American job to China . . .

13. China would still have a labour surplus.

14. In the next 8 minutes . . .

16. Today’s student will have 10-14 jobs . . . U.S Department of Labour

17. By the age of 38.

18. The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004. Former U.S. Secretary of Labour Reich

20. Students are being prepared for jobs that don’t yet exist . . .

21. Using technologies that haven’t been invented . . .

22. … to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

23. Did you know . . .

24. There are over 2.7 billion searches performed on Google each month.

25. The number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet.

26. There are about 540,000 words in the English language . . .

27. About 5 times more than in Shakespeare’s time.

28. More than 3,000 new books are published . . .

29. Daily.

30. It’s estimated that 1.5 exabytes (that’s 1.5 x 10 18 ) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year.

31. … more than in the previous 5,000 years.

32. The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.

33. And will double every 72 hours by 2010.

34. Third generation fibre optics pushes 10 trillion bits per second down one strand of fiber.

35. That’s 1,900 CDs or 150 million simultaneous phone calls every second.

36. It will triple every 6 months for the next 20 years.

37. By 2013, a supercomputer will exceed the computational ability of the Human Brain

38. By 2023, a $1,000 computer will do the same thing.

39. And while technical predictions beyond 15 years are difficult . . .

40. By 2049, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational abilities of the entire human race .

41. What does it all mean?

42. We are living in exponential times.

43. thefischbowl.blogspot.com

48. Questions ?