LEADERSHIP STRATEGY: PROFIT BY ADAPTING TO THE “SHIFT-AGE”

industrial-age ghosts are still haunting our lives
The shift-age (labeled such by futurist David Houle) is transforming our lives and radically changing the way business will be done. Like a large number of our ancestors who experienced and end to the “age of extraction”—where people made a living by farming, fishing, logging, hunting, and trapping, many individuals and companies have not adapted to a demise of the industrial age.
By LSI managing Partner Art McNeil
Unknowingly they view the world through an inhibiting perspective—a paradigm that no longer exists. Nothing makes sense to them—the world appears to have gone mad. A closer inspection identified that what we are experiencing in the shift-age has more in common with the way our ancestors lived before the industrial revolution.
Extraction-age |
Industrial-age |
Shift-age |
From |
To |
Toward |
Sun (seasons) |
Clock |
Anytime, 24/7 |
Outside |
Inside |
Anywhere |
Self-employed |
Employee |
Transient |
Home |
Workplace |
Anyplace |
One-room school |
Factory-type |
Home |
On-job learning |
Formal |
Lifetime |
© Art McNeil 2009
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