Reinventing ourselves during the 50 years we are going to work as knowledge workers is no longer a gift but a requirement says Dr. Drucker.
I always saw this as a gift. From the time I went to undergrad school. I switched my major from a fairly defined Architecture (still creative and changing) to System Design (where the key element seemed to be learning new stuff to put together in new ways - constant change). Then, in my career, the same. As a management consultant one needs to constantly try to learn faster than others. One’s reputation seems to depend on it.
One just has to look at the vast number of newly invented knowledge worker job types to see what Dr. Drucker is changing. What used to be a newspaper is today a series of blogs and twitters...with independent writers all over the world. If you are still printing mid-sized newspapers, you likely won’t be fairly soon.
If you can see those trends in your job or business, your best friend will be someone who shows you the way and ropes to your next career. Will you make the shift early enough so it is a gift, or will you be forced into independence.
As I write, the blue ocean flows by endlessly, vast, nothing in sight, yet I can see the bottom clearly, really strange. We are crossing the Bahamas shelf from Cat Cay to Chubb Cay. You see we have reinvented ourselves to become “sailors” for a while. It’s a gift, really.
One wonders if reinvention is perhaps a misnomer if it is truly a requirement. Perhaps adaptation is more accurate. If I know I must change, is it really a reinvention of an original idea? And as for the sailing...Jealousy comes to mind sir.
ReplyDeleteI think 'adaptation' is okay, when there is no discontinuity involved.
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