Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/4/13
November 4, 2013—Issue #215
This week’s focus point: The coming stresses on society will be quite different from past and current strains about gender, race, ethnicity, and so forth. They will be about the knowledge chasm. This recent recession did not create a radical change in jobs, it merely accelerated what was already occurring. The knowledge economy demands different skills and talents, and rewards different abilities. Higher pay simply based on how long you serve (tenure) in a job (bus drivers, fire fighters, teachers, air line pilots) will decline or disappear, since productivity increases in those jobs are minor. The gap we’re now seeing widen is over technical savvy, access to and application of knowledge, and personalized value. In personal and professional services, you can continue to enhance your value. In organizational settings, not so much.
Monday Morning Perspective: Twenty Americans died at Yorktown. In the Napoleonic Wars, the British Navy lost scarcely 6,000 men. How are we to think of civilization disappearing in an hour’s time? Hard and carefully, that is how. — The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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