Unnatural Resources: Dynamics in the 21st Century Workplace

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Unnatural Resources Dynamics in the 21st Century
Workplace
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Environmental Scan

• The 21st Century global village
• The contemporary workplace
• The modern day government
• leader

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• The New Village

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Demography is Destiny

• Longevity
• The age wave
• Changing family structures
• Changing psychic motivators

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Implications of the Age Wave

• Recruitment and retention issues
• Widely diverse ages within teams
• Challenges for supervisors
• Potential for communication problems
• Potential for conflict within teams
• Potential to misunderstand constituents

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Evolving Workforce Generations
Quad Generational Workforce Quad Generational Workforce Quad Generational Workforce
Greatest Generation 1922 - 1946 52 m
Baby Boomers 1946 - 1964 76m
Generation X 1964 - 1984 51 m
Nexters 1984 - 2001 70 m
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The American Mosaic

• A minority-majority America
• Energized immigration
• A female workforce
• Multicultural workforce

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• The New Workplace

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The 21st Century Workplace

• Radical changes in the nature of
• Work
• The workplace
• The workers

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From Manual to Mental

• Increased importance of knowledge work
• Moving into the global village
• More unknown than known
• Short cycle on obsolescence

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The Technological Tornado

• Families
• Workplaces
• Individuals

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247365.. and the 31 hour day

• Ability to work all the time, from anywhere in
  the world
• Difficulty in turning work off
• Unclaimed vacation time
• Crackberry addiction
• Runaway multi-tasking
• Disappearance of down time

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Shamrock Organization
Fewer permanent employees
More outside partners
More just in time workers
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The major cause of stress is reality.
- Lily Tomlin
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• The New Organization

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Blueprint for the ModernOrganization

• Flat structures
• Abandonment of silo thinking
• Consummate at building and maintaining
  relationships
• Constant thirst for knowledge and self-growth
• Focused on influence, not power

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21st Century Leadership Advantage

• 70 of essential work performance competencies
  are emotional, not technical
• Emotional competencies are twice as important in
  contributing to excellence as intellect and
  experience
• EQ Peter Principle too much college and too
  little kindergarten.
• Increasing crisis of rising IQ, diminishing EQ

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Overall Conclusion

• At best, IQ contributes 20 to the factors that
  determine LIFE success, which leaves 80 to other
  forces.

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• What This Means to Us

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Good Wont Be Good Enough
Good is the enemy of great.
-Jim Collins Good to Great (2001)
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• What Got Us Here
• Wont Get Us There.
• - Marshall Goldsmith

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• In the end,
• you only hit what you aim at.
• -Henry David Thoreau

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