Future Here Now: People-structure

Signals

I’m sorry this one is late. Spent most of the last 36 hours nursing a stomach ick. Makes thinking, let alone writing, a special kind of challenge. Back to mostly normal now.

This week’s Future Here Now installments focus on the question of building new ways to help people connect and develop the capacity to work together — not just ad-hoc, like we do in our daily lives, but intentionally and effectively. I’m drawing on the analogy of Infrastructure — those systems of pipes and wires and roads and bridges that we know are necessary to keep our society and our economy moving. Hence, People-structure.

Our Signals this week point to organizations and people who are doing what I would consider some of the hardest work in front of us — redesigning how we work together, down to the fundamentals. That can have big benefits….but it also has costs.

Changing the work to fit the people who are working

https://theconversation.com/diversity-of-us-workplaces-is-growing-in-terms-of-race-ethnicity-and-age-forcing-more-employers-to-be-flexible-194327

This article gets at one of the drivers of our current economic transitions in the U.S. better than almost any other short piece I have encountered. All indicators right now are that Talent will continue to be the precious resource of this era, and at this point the pool of potential Talent for most industries is becoming more