If you read my previous post on talent trends, you are aware that life in organizations is undergoing tectonic change. We are moving from the mechanistic and manufacturing-oriented era that dominated the 19th and 20th centuries, to an era based on community, collective action, and collaboration.
Individuals are finding new freedoms and exploring their own capacity and taste for change and entrepreneurism. Some organizations are looking for ways to adapt to all of this without endangering their own success, but it may be that these two different needs are not compatible. We will find out over the next ten years or less.
Where is your organization? Are they at least exploring the impact of these trends? What is your organziation most concerned about, if anything?
This short poll may shed some light on what thoughtful and future-oriented organizations are thinking.
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I would like to learn how to use the Global Economy to help employ some of the talent we will never be able to bring back as we continue to reduce our workforce. I think as HR professionals we need to figure out better methods of outplacement. It would be great if through the FOT we came up with a method or published a paper on how to integrate the American workforce both past and present into the growth areas around the world via the web.
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