No, I’m not a “flower child.” This is not a “blast from the past.” While I did grow up in the ’70s and wore flowers in my hair, I am not suggesting we go back there. What I am suggesting, however, is that we, as leaders of corporate America, recognize the power of our most valuable asset: our people.
We are living in a knowledge economy. A paradigm shift has occurred. The majority of our workers have moved from concrete tasks of “making things” to more abstract work based on “thinking problems through and designing solutions.” The “make and sell” model of the industrial age has turned into an “information and service age model.” This model emphasizes relationships and intellectual assets rather than the so-called “hard” assets of the Industrial Age.
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