In the March issue of FastCompany, they ask 10 of their favourite brains what’s next for business and how to get ready for it. I’m most likely breaking a bunch of rules by posting the quotes here but I never had a black leather jacket as a kid so these are my rebel years. Here are a few quotes I picked out:

“I was told again and again that the basis of hiring is not your skills or experience, but how likable you are. The rationale is that you have to conform, in great detail, down to the shape of your lapel pin. In what kind of team does everyone have to be the same?”, Barbara Ehrenreich.

“Fewer and fewer people will want to be employees of corporations, because corporations don’t have anything to offer. Corporations don’t provide security and provide fewer and fewer benefits….This isn’t globalization, because globalization to me feels big. I think it’s the opposite, it’s villagization – making everything smaller and in some sense more intimate.” , Avram Miller.

“To pull this off, the corporate organization is going to change. No longer will there be a few people at the top, millions in middle management, and very few at the bottom. It’s going to become a lot of people at the top thinking strategy, and a lot of people at the bottom executing it against all these different segments. Sod all in the middle – it’s the end of management.” , Kevin Roberts.

These and many other quotes in this article excite me as we’ve somewhat bet the farm on this at ClearSpace and CreationStep. It isn’t what we do but how we do it and how we chose to build and organize ourselves around the work we do.

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