JOB OF THE FUTURE

“Human Glue”

Cartoon source: Game Usagi, “WR: Spiderman: Web of Shadows”; photo by Meet the Media Guru via Flickr by Meet

By Dannielle Blumenthal, Ph.D.

All Opinions My Own;No Endorsement Expressed Or Implied

April 29, 2012

THE BIG SHIFTPersonal & Work

Identity Have Merged

– and Success Means “Marrying” The Organization

Time Period

Primary Social Unit

ValuableWork

Work/Life Boundary

‘Till Late 1960s

• Family

• Contract-Based (Marriage)

• Fixed, Lifelong

• Manual Individual Labor

• Interchangeable

• Ideal = Car Assembler

• Strong

• Privacy is sacred

1970s-90s

• Family

• Choice-Based (Live Together)

• Serial

• Knowledge-Based Individual Labor

• Expertise, Technical Skill, IQ Combo = Rare

• Ideal = Microsoft

• Permeable

• Rise of “Tribes”

• Peers Become Friends & Vice Versa (“Friends,” “Office Space”)

1990s-Present

• Individual

• Transitional (“No Commitments”)

• Transactional (“We Use Each Other”)

• Group-Based Insight Labor

• Computers Crunch Data, Synergistic Culture Produces Innovation

• Ideal = Google

• Little to None

• Facebook Has Obliterated Distinction

• Family, Friends, Colleagues = Part of Same “Network”

“Me? Who?”

Independent Yet Alienated Workforce...

Confronted By Collaboration-Based Workplace...

NOW Has Strong Incentive To Immerse - Everywhere = Workspace.

ALL TOGETHER NOW

Perfecting the Organizational Brain

Photo by Sarah G. via Flickr

INSTANT-ER PRODUCTIVITYOrganizational

Feedback Loop, Accelerated By

Enterprise Social Collaboration

FUTURE “TOP DOGS”

Team Players Who Add Exponentially More Value Than

They Cost

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JOB OF THE FUTURE

Are You Prepared?

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