Own Your Future

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

—John Lennon

We began the book talking about how difficult it is to convince people that their jobs are in jeopardy. We’re going to end the same way.

You know the odds say the swirling global economy is going to whisk you out of a job. Change does that. It always has. Heck, economist Joseph Schumpeter wrote about that fact seventy years ago when he coined the phrase “creative destruction” (in his book Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy) to explain how economic forces are always disrupting the economy—and the people who work within it. Just about every day you can read a newspaper account or watch a broadcast that reinforces that Schumpeter was right.

But since “nothing is constant ...