Is your organization a factory or a lab? Factories are linear, process centric, and focus on the status quo. Labs embrace failure, focus on innovation, and adapt. Organizations that want to succeed in the future of work must think of themselves more like labs and less like factories!
When I was writing my book, The Future of Work, I created a framework for adapting to coming changes that I call “The Six-Step Process for Adapting to the Future of Work.” (It was inspired in part by John Kotter’s well known “8-Step Process for Leading Change.”) I will be exploring my six-step process on a webinar in a few weeks, but here are the steps and what they entail (They’re best thought of as a never-ending loop) […]