Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 09/20/2021
I had a great group of 50 in Atlanta on Wednesday and as you read this I’ll be in Palm Beach for my annual elite group, By Invitation Only. In some ways, it was as if I had been doing this for weeks—not 19 months ago as the most recent time. The airport, airplanes, hotels, and the rest of the appurtenances of travel seem identical, save for the masks and only partially-filled restaurants.
But make no mistake, this isn’t a “return to normal,” and if we keep searching for that reappearance we’re going to be quite frustrated. In fact, I’ve trademarked the term “No-Normal™.”
People are not returning to many jobs even after stimulus money has dried up. They are instead contemplating what to do with their lives since for many this has been the first “up close and personal” experience with mortality. Some people are going back to school, some are leaving school. Some are trying to become entrepreneurial, and some want more control over corporate settings. It’s clear that remote work is here to stay, large meetings will be drastically reduced, and professional associations with an annual convention and monthly magazine will go the way of the stegosaurus.
If organizations seek talent they will design packages around people, not force people into packages. Those dimensions will include forms of compensation, hours worked, location, agency (control over one’s latitude of action), self-development, and so forth. The big corporate “prisons” aren’t effective anymore.
This is the jailbreak.
If you want to dominate your market as an entrepreneur, then create disruption, create volatility, and innovate daily. That’s why people come to Atlanta and Miami to be with me. Not to “return” to anything, but to be successful in the No-Normal.
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. —Gail Sheehy
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. —Alan Watts
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