Their sons are college students at Seattle University and the University of British Columbia. His wife, Elizabeth Corcoran, is CEO and co-founder of EdSurge, an independent education technology information resource and community. audience expectations and, closer to home, accusations that they cant sing it. His favorite profile subjects have included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz, and mountaineer Reinhold Messner.Īnders' other public-speaking appearances include talks or guest lectures on behalf of Reed College, Claremont McKenna, Texas Tech, Stanford, Berkeley, the University of Central Florida and the London School of Economics. George Loomis on Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. During his more free-wheeling periods, he chronicled everything from Nevada ghost towns to the perils of being a New York City bike messenger. During his most focused periods, he wrote at length about Wall Street and health care, sharing in the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1997. You can be yourself, as an English major, and thrive in sales. The key insight: curiosity, creativity, and empathy aren't unruly traits that must be reined in. He will draw from his latest book: You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a 'Useless' Liberal Arts Education.Īnders, a contributing editor at Forbes Magazine, also is the author of The Rare Find: How Great Talent Stands Out, Becoming a Rare Find: How Jagged Resumes Lead to Good Jobs, Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business and Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett Packard.Įarlier in his career, Anders worked as a writer, editor, or bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, and Bloomberg View. In YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, George Anders explains the remarkable power of a liberal arts education - and the ways it can open the door to thousands of cutting-edge jobs every week. In his lecture, titled 'Work’s Provocative Future: Which Graduates Will Thrive?' Anders will discuss the value of a liberal arts education in an increasingly tech-driven job market. in Room 101 of the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 11 a.m. George Anders, author of five business books and an editor at large at LinkedIn who writes about college-to-career issues and the future of work, will give the Scholars' Convocation lecture on Thursday, Nov.

You Can Do Anything by George Anders