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It is not about the past, but the future

Gaylin Jee by Gaylin Jee
May 18, 2022
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We tend to grab onto the past and use it to design the future. It’s a profound failure of imagination. So say Stephen Gill and David Grebow. They add that the future is no longer about looking for continuity with the past and choosing shinier versions of existing technologies and trends.

This reminds me of Eddie Obeng’s work on the World After Midnight. We are still using yesterday’s models and hoping they will solve tomorrow’s challenges. That’s not impossible, but it will become increasingly unrewarding.

“Sometimes there needs to be a disruptive idea that lights up the crystal ball and makes us look at the future in a new way.”

You can read the full article by Gill and Grebow on the Association for Talent Development website here, but in essence they speak to a fundamental shift in training and learning, from managing hands, to managing minds. The future of learning for them is about managing minds. EQ will be important. Companies will be enabling learning, but not necessarily directing it.

I agree. Employees are catching on to the benefit of learning how to learn. Push is slowly giving over to pull, where some of us realise that we can draw down what we need from the eco-system that sits around us. That eco-system could offer the tools and tech to find out what we want to know, to communicate, to work together, to make sense of what we can do and how we do it.  Smart organisations help to set up those eco-systems. Their employees can experiment a little with what they find around them, and they’re encouraged to do that. After all, big and small ideas and innovations fall out of this type of enabled serendipity.

And so the shift extends, from managing hands, to managing minds, to perhaps a connecting of minds (which happens beyond the boundaries of the traditional organisation). A little more control and direction is relinquished, and a little more agency adopted on the part of employees.

We are fortunate to live in the times we do, with all this technological advancement. We can access learning and connection everywhere. That is just as well, for the Fourth Industrial Revolution is fast approaching. And the survival of the fittest in this revolution will not be those most responsive to change, but rather those who are one step ahead of it.

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Gaylin aims to build a better world through developing leaders, building social capital in teams and raising awareness of more conscious business strategies and models. She searches out novel thinking and designs deeply practical tools to shift comfort zones and drive more innovative and purposeful results. Through her business, 33 Emeralds, she has worked with leaders and teams from FNB, Discovery Vitality Group, Edge Field (Field Operations for Tyme Digital Bank) MINT Group (Microsoft Global Country Partner 2019), Massmart, Sabre, Tiger Brands and Tiger Brands Foundation, Kimberly-Clark South Africa, a range of professional bodies including The Institute of People Management (IPM), The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and The Association of Accounting Technicians South Africa (AAT), and many smaller entrepreneurial organisations. In addition to writing, speaking, coaching and facilitating, you will find Gaylin collaborating around new ideas and offerings with others who share a drive to positively disrupt the world of work, and the role that humans play within it.

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