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In the future, employees, and especially knowledge workers, will increasingly outlive even successful organizations.
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Instead of searching for the right organization, management needs to learn to look for, to develop, to test: The organization that fits the task.
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113 |
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The purpose of the work on making the future is not to decide what should be done tomorrow, but what should be done today to have a tomorrow.
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113 |
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It is futile to try to guess what products and processes the future will want. But it is possible to decide what idea one wants to make a reality in the future, and to build a different business on such an idea.
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117 |
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To make the future happen one need not… have a creative imagination. It requires work rather than genius – and therefore is accessible in some measure to everybody.
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119 |
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To make the future happen one has to be willing to do something new.
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119 |
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The resources that should be invested in making the future happen should be small, but they must be of the best. Otherwise nothing happens.
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120 |
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To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.
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120 |
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…tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And then even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future.
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120 |
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The future of business, of the economy, and of society will be influenced greatly by the way we solve or fail to solve the growing crisis of the unions.
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