The Future Workforce The 21st-Century

Here, author Irving Buchen projects and describes the workforce of the future while offering a comprehensive survey of contemporary work environments with descriptions of future learning and unlearning training systems.

Irving Buchen is executive career consultant and senior researcher of National Executive Personnel (NEP), a member of the doctoral faculty of Capella University, and training editor for The Futurist, the official publication of the World Future Society.

Introduction

ix

SECTION I THE NOW AND THE NEW

Current Work Issues

1 Speed, Blur, and Flux Management

3

(10)

2 Technology: Robotic and Human Development and the Machine Teacher

13

(18)

3 Globality:The International Brave New World

31

(8)

4 Dysfunctional Workplaces and Dreadful Bosses: The Organizational Pain, Blame, Shame and Gotcha Game

39

(10)

5 Knowledge Acquisition and Management a la Toffler and Senge: Knowledge Workers and Learning Organizations

49

(6)

6 Size: Limits to Bigness, Structures, and Personnel

55

(12)

7 Teams: Education Leaders and Business SWAT Teams

67

(16)

8 Challenging the Sacred Order: Rocking the Boat and Upsetting the Status Quo

83

(8)

9 New Assessments: 360-Degree Holistics, Balanced Score Card, and Barrett's Spiritual Audit

91

Current Workforce Impacts

10 New Employee Profiles: Job Satisfaction as the Competitive Edge and Employee Mission Statements

99

(12)

11 Manager Range: Managerial Holistics, Reflection and Transition, and the Multiple Manager

111

(14)

12 Leader Practices and Profiles: Servant Leadership and Executive Impact

125

(12)

13 Leadership Instruction: Professor CEO

137

(6)

SECTION II EMERGING DEVELOPMENTS AND TRENDS

Emerging Work Issues

14 Globality: Revisited, Reviewed, and Perhaps Rejected

143

(6)

15 Communication: Self-Dialogue and Training Decision Makers

149

(10)

16 Educational, Business, and Company Conversational Communities

159

(20)

17 Executive Coaches and Trusted Advisors: Leveraged Influence, Leadership Paranoia, and MBA Guidance

179

(12)

18 Diagnostically Driven Training: Profiling, Problem Solving, Adaptability, and MI

191

(26)

19 Innovation: Structuring a Research Workforce, Creative Thresholds, and Radical Breakthroughs

217

(18)

Emerging Workforce Impacts

20 Employee Centrality: Work Covenants and Progressive Empowerment

235

(10)

21 Manager Adjustments: Ups and Downs

245

(16)

22 Emerging Leaders: CEO Interview Questions, Solomonisms, and Reconfiguring the Executive Team

261

(12)

SECTION III THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE

Future Work Issues

23 E-Learning: Second Generation, E-Learning Curve, and Educational Entrepreneurs

273

(16)

24 Learning Leaders and Managers: Learning ROI, CLO Acceptance, and the Future Agenda of CLOs

289

(14)

25 Conceptual Futures: Futures Thinking and Agendas

303

(12)

26 Operational Futures: Future-Imbedded Innovation Methodologies and Future Resources for Human Resources

315

(22)

Future Workforce Impacts

27 Future Employees: Goal-Role Metrics and Employee Managers

337

(8)

28 Future Managers: The Manager-Leader Hybrid

345

(6)

29 Future Leaders: New CEOs, Executive Agendas, and Executive Composites

351

(22)

30 Epilogue: Claims and Misgivings and Putting Forecasts on Trial

373

(4)

About the Author

377

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The Future Workforce The 21st-Century Transformation of Leaders, Managers, and Employees

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