Continued from Part 1 of the article Future Work by Abe WalkingBear Sanchez
Even more companies will move from the old “department” way of thinking and will seek out commonalities within their different business functions. In the future, like today, redundancy elimination will rule.
In the future, like today, smart business managers won’t waste their time and energy worrying about change or sitting in a bar crying into their scotch. The best way to deal with change is to get ahead of it; it’s kind of like politicians trying to figure out where people are going so they can race ahead of them and claim to be their leader.
In the future, like today, the best way to avoid being run over by change is to accept and embrace it. Business managers not enrolled in a technology class, or constantly improving their skills will have targets painted on their backs. And just like today it’ll only be a matter of time before they get hit.
Smart business managers are and will be those that take the functions they manage and look for ways to add value. A business manager not focused on improvement becomes an administrator at best and a bureaucrat at worst.
Good Jobs, Good Pay
If jobs are going to be outsourced or off shored, chances are good that they’ll be those jobs that are redundant in nature. Rut riding, doing the same old things limits growth and puts businesses and business managers at risk. “I pity the fool.” Mr. T
While we wait for automation to move us to a point where the production of basic food and products is local and unique, just like in the old days; there are things we can do to better participate in and help shape the future.
The growth areas of the future are technology, education and health care. We know that technology is good, although sometimes it’s used in a bad way; but that speaks to the nature of man and his fears. Technology is “the science of the practical.” At one point in our history technology allowed us, via a long stick, to reach higher hanging fruit and to crack nuts with a rock. It makes sense that in the future automated transportation pods (ATPs) will replace cars. Along with cars disappearing so will the deaths of 40,000 + Americans killed, and the hundreds of thousands injured every year in accidents. Just think about the gas/energy that would be saved if efficient pods, in constant communication with each other replaced today’s cars and drivers.
By the way, someone is going to automate the roads, care for the sick and educated the children of the world…why shouldn’t it be Americans?
With Americans aging out in record numbers and with millions already driving by touch, or drunk or high on something; why haven’t we already started to automate existing cars?
And what about the waste in producing millions of new cars every year so that they can sit around unused 90% + of the time? We pay good money to create scrap for the Chinese.
In Closing
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself” Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the near future business function integration and off shore competition will continue to expand. Just like the past. Things in the future will get better for more people but in the transition some friction will be generated, some jobs will cease to exist.
Abe WalkingBear Sanchez is an International Speaker / Trainer / Consultant on the subject of cash flow / sales enhancement and business knowledge organization and use. Founder and President of www.armg-usa.com, WalkingBear has authored hundreds of business articles and worked with numerous companies in a wide range of industries.
