24th JUNE 2013
SELF-PROGRAMMER OR GENERIC?
No one is less ready for tomorrow than the person who holds the most rigid beliefs about what tomorrow will contain." — Watts Wacker, Jim Taylor and Howard Means.
While working on a school assignment recently, I came across an interesting perspective by author and University of Southern California professor Manuel Castells. In his book, Communication Power, he talks about two forms of labour that are a definitive feature of the information society or age that we live in today. The first one is self-programmable labour which has the built-in cultural and educational capacity to re-program itself throughout its life while generic labour is founded on execution or implementing instructions without the creative capacity to think independently and fashion adaptive responses to challenges. Terminal learning and rigidity is the hallmark of generic labour while flexibility and life-long learning define self-programmable.
That society and organizations are in a constant state of flux is indisputable. It has been said that change is the only constant feature of life. American moral and social philosopher, Eric Hoffer was spot ...
Quote of the Week:
"Longevity in leadership is related, in part, to your love of learning and the sense of urgency you attach to it.”- Coach John Wooden
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