Stories are the equipment of living. Kenneth Burke – Historian I started out of high school doing manual work. My first job was as an Ordinary Seaman in the Merchant Marine. I worked on rust bucket ships on and off for 5 years. This manual work was very hard and frankly not suited to my …
In Working It: Disruption Rules, I’ve tried to blend a linear narrative with a non-linear approach. Each story is a block of information, a stand-alone thought-bite about work, career, and job disruption, that is distilled into a one-page story. While the thought bite may seem like fluffy popcorn, we hope it can provide bread crumbs for …
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein – Physicist Disruption Rules! Why did I use this in the Working It title? Good question! COVID is real and deadly. Think about the reboot button on electronics you own. What do you do? You punch …
Eight in ten in the U.S. experiencing disruption. Gallup During COVID work is described in terms of a set of changing 1. Rules; 2. Boundary conditions; 3. Tools, and 4. Expectations. Let’s look at each: You think you know your work rules, because they were presented to you in a policy manual, workshop, or personal one-on-one. It …
In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption. Tim Ferriss – Author I’m a Gutenberg person. What do I mean? Well, I process information, in this case the written word, in a left-to-right, linear narrative. Each sentence has a thought that builds into the next sentence, paragraph, …
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the Unknown. H.P. Lovecraft In this book, we explore the Future of Work after COVID and how it’s going to affect people in critical ways. We look at Disruption Rules through the lens of paradigm shifts, disruptive forces, …
Impact of the coronavirus crisis could ripple through every layers of our social fabric.”[i] The Guardian The question that everybody is asking how can we return to business as usual or the way things were. And now it seems that the future of work is fundamentally changed. Or, what is the ‘New Normal’ going to …
CONTEXT Drivers Old Norm New Norm Work as usual Work in office Job security Work certainty Evolutionary change Gutenbergs Coronavirus (COVID) Remote work Work insecurity Mass unemployment Disruptive change Digital natives Cost, quality, schedule work filters Risk work filter Static work rules Dynamic work rules, boundary conditions, tools, and expectations Evolutionary tech Disruptive tech Lifelong employment Just-in-time & …
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. …
Working It: Disruption Rules was written in October 2019 with the assumption that Artificial Intelligence and robotics would be the change drivers of the future at work. As we all know COVID hit the world in January 2020. The world collectively has been struggling with COVID since it was indiscriminate, contagious, deadly, and often seemed …