T-Mobile For Business Ad in the Wall Street Journal distills the essence of Working It: Disruption Rules:
“Business is Changing. Are You With Us?”
“Business is changing. Upstarting. Restarting. Jumpstarting. 30,000 feet working. Texting. Pinging. Posting. Next-day delivering. Thinking. Rethinking. Buying. Selling. Flexible-hours demanding. Sharing. Blogging. Open-floor plan rethinking. Designing. Differentiating. Co-working. Downloading. Uploading. Video-conference calling. Digitizing. Automating. Work-life balancing. Mobilizing. Streaming. Outsourcing. Cross-country-cloud collaborating. Animating. Coding. Diversifying. Deep diving. Innovating. Disrupting.”[i]
WHAT’S THE SOLUTION?
“Whether you work in industry, the nonprofit sector or government, there is no way to anticipate and plan for the new structure and operational rules that are unfolding. … The only way to successfully navigate the level of change is to be a fluid and creative problem solver. That’s why the World Economic Forum labeled complex problem solving the number one skill for the twenty-first century. Organizations everywhere are looking for this capability in their talent recruiting above all else.”[ii]
THEN: THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID 19) HIT.
[i] ‘T-Mobile For Business’, Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2019.
[ii] Bulletproof Problem solving, Conn, & McLean, Wiley, 2018.