The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
William James – Writer
So, you’ve spent valuable time reading Working It: Disruption Rules. Great! But, what are you going to do about it? What are your next steps?
We end each section Working It: Disruption Rules with a Self Management page with critical questions. We ask these questions so you have a new lens to look at work and possibly reframe your context of Working It in the COVID world of work. Self management implies self responsibility and self care, understanding context, making the right choices, and changing personal behaviors if necessary. So, we ask you, the reader, to internalize questions because self-awareness is the first step to your making smart choices about your work, career, and job:
- Do you understand the competitive and innovation pressures facing your company or client in the COVID world?
- How is your employer or customer adapting to the COVID virus?
- Is your organization or client going through a paradigm shiftor COVID work disruption? And if so, from what to what?
- Do you know what your company’s Plan B or Plan C to respond to the paradigm shift?
- Do you know your organization’s COVID workrules?
- Is the business modelresilient and how does the company intend to maintain its competitive posture and maintain margin?
- How do you see these paradigm shifts impacting you?
- What do you think that it’s the ‘End of Business as You Know It?”
- Do you see this as securing or enhancing your value in the organization?
- Is your company outsourcing or moving workoffshore?
- Is your job outsourceable?
- If you’re a consultant, what’s your value-added differentiator?
- Do you think artificial intelligenceand robots will replace humans?
- Do you think that AIwill replace or can replace you?
- If yes, how quickly? If no, why not?