by Art McNeil
Although the workplace has been restructured, many people are still operating from an industrial-age mindset that is no longer based on reality. When one looks at our changing world through outdated assumptions, everything looks insane. Alice experienced similar perceptual distortions during her visit to wonderland. Opportunities pass undetected for people clinging to outdated attitudes, beliefs, and ways of doing things. In the extreme, sufferers become despondent because reality based managers, co workers, friends, family, and neighbors are no longer adhering to traditional boundaries, assumptions, and expectations. The following ABCs of employment presents a different way of looking at a changing world at work—a glimpse of the workplace as it is becoming. (more…)