CHAPTER NINE
Get Ready for the Future Workplace
Balancing the short term with the long term is a perennial challenge in business, especially in extraordinary economic conditions. To balance the strategic with the here and now, we offer some suggestions on how to get started now to prepare for the future workplace. Did you ever leave the first day of a job or a degree program and have the sinking feeling that you were in over your head? At times we have seen that look on people we have talked to about the changes we expect they will face in the future workplace. So we would like to make a few suggestions on how you can begin to define, invent, and prepare for the future.
In the last decade, outsourcing human resources appeared to be the wave ...
