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New Staff You'll Hire
Are:
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Turned on by their work!
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Feel the work matters!
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Feel work is cool!
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Feel "in your face"!
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Adventurers.
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The CEO's of their lives.
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Not God. They are just determined to
make a difference! (Dilbert would be appalled, no doubt.)
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Of course, they embrace and exploit the
Web.
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They submit their resume on the Web and
keep it perpetually active there.
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Recruited and negotiated with and hired
on the Web.
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Trained on the Web.
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They create and conduct scintillating
projects on the Web via a far-flung "virtual" stable of teammates (most of
whom they've never met).
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They manage their careers and build
reputations on the Web. And they have fab personal websites!
But what--exactly?--will they actually
do?
Circa 2010. They will be at home.
Working--for the next several months--for Ford on a fiendishly difficult
engineering problem. They won't be on Ford's payroll, though they will be
drawing full benefits, even as a contractor. (During President Hillary
Rodham's second term, health care, pensions and retraining will no longer be
tied to a company but to the individual.) Their 79-member project team, only
one of whom they've met face-to-face (they consider face-to-face a quaint
idea that their parents suffered), comes from 14 nations. Their fully wired
home is their castle. After half a dozen virtual meetings this morning, they
take a so-called RETRB (ReTRaining Break) and attend a virtual class in
engineering (conducted from God knows where) as part of their virtual-online
master's degree program.
They are deeply committed to their
self-designed, do-it-from-anywhere-with-anybody "career" path. They are
relieved, by the white-collar robots, of 95
% of the drudge work ... and are adding value by being on the tippy top of
their intellectual game. Their only security is their personal commitment to
constant growth and their global (virtual) rep for great work.
Adapted from Tom Peters'
article in May 22, 2000, Time Magazine. |
