Now, what could we do going forward? The labor market, the OECD determined, has already transformed, resulting in a profound loss of middle-skill jobs. With the lessons found in The Adaptation Advantage, youll learn to ride these waves to a more successful and fulfilling future of your work. Steve Jobs isnt the only person whose worst career moment turned out to be his best. In Chapter 7, we propose a new foundation for adaptability, which includes a resilient identity, an agile learning mindset, and a strategy for nurturing our uniquely human capabilities. How Do We Get from Here to There? Jobs change so quickly that your current job may not exist in 18 to 24 months. But where so many see these changes as threatening, Heather McGowan and Chris Shipley see the opportunity to open the flood gates of human potentialif we can change the way we think about work and leadership. At the current crossroads, you face a choice: to dig in or adopt a new mindset. Its difficult to imagine the impact of Moores Law, but consider this: the smartphone you no doubt carry everywhere has 100,000 times more computing power, 1,000,000 times more memory, and 7,000,000 times more storage than was aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft that carried astronauts to the moon. Where technology-driven productivity shifts were once absorbed across a lifetime, allowing workers to adjust at pace, they are now on an exponential growth curve where change drives workers from job to job, employer to employer, and career to career. Have you noticed how many things we are now describing with the word deep?deep mind, deep medicine, deep war, deep fake, deep surveillance, deep insights, deep climate, deep adaptation. In the next 18 to 24 months, the job you have todayif, indeed, it still exists at allwill be very different from what it is today. Recommendation Still, we need to put the future of work and work identity in a large context. The exchange is ubiquitous. Meanwhile, your employees continue doing exactly what their job description specifies. That was the sound of one second. This in-between space can beand isunnerving when the future is so difficult to see. At the same time were witnessing a decline in trust in both government and media, were seeing a rapid decline in church membership. In fact, in a 1972 poll, Cronkite was named the most trusted man in America. Unfortunately, one of the things we tend to do when building teams is pick people who think like we do, McGowan says. Around the year 2000, for instance, a group of technologies came together that were biased toward connectivity. Because of the dramatic fall in the price of fiber-optic cable, thanks to the dot-com boom, bubble, and bust, we were suddenly able to wire much of the world and, as a result, connectivity became fast, virtually free, easy for you, and ubiquitous. Review/Endorsements/Praise/Award The coronavirus provides an excellent, timely example of the value in letting go of what we thought we knew. I gave that moment a name. Every time you hand off something to an algorithm, you need to reach for something new.. Amazon launched the Kindle e-book reader in 2007. Leading, quite simply, is not all about the bottom line any more its about creating a great place for other people to work. How do companies build capacity, then? Technology is transforming the world of work faster than ever. How do you express your professional expertise in a way that is nimble and adaptive? Now, as a pandemic disrupts so many aspects of work, adapting is a leadership imperative. There is no denying that this will reshape how and where work is done. Putting Atomization, Automation, and Augmentation Together 41 Cultural norms are undergoing tectonic shifts. Background Youll get contextual knowledge as a frame for informed action or analysis. Some 6 million Americans are children of LGBTQ-identified parents, and the rise of marriage equality globally is spawning families of choice rather than biology. The Enablers: Uniquely Human Skills 108 *getAbstract is summarizing much more than books. Dr. Jeffery LePine, professor and PetSmart Chair in Leadership at the W.P. The job description and organizational chart no longer matter. Maybe youre wondering whether all of this continual, agile learning is also going to involve devoting time to picking up a bunch of brand-new skills, like engineering or coding. And you've really focused in on this concept of adaptation, and that being an advantageif not the advantage right now for all of us living in the world. Today, that view is not so easily conjured. Jobs change so quickly that your current job may not exist in 18 to 24 months. Well come back to this again and again throughout the book, but for now just let that idea set in. We rate each piece of content on a scale of 110 with regard to these two core criteria. The Adaptation Advantage (2020) explores how to navigate the future of work - without worrying about the robots taking over. But where so many see these changes as threatening, Heather McGowan and Chris Shipley see the opportunity to open the flood gates of human potentialif we can change the way we think about work and leadership. Computers at the credit card network Visa processed more than 1,700 transactions, no doubt a few of them providistockng payment for the 17 packages that robots helped pack and ship from Amazon warehouses. Even as advanced tools and data become increasingly available, we are failing to harness the potential of that technology. I said it felt like the world is flat.. Along the course of your career, youll experience setbacks everyone does. Consider how we get to know people: we ask children what do you want to be when you grow up? We ask students whats your major? And when we meet adults, we often ask them what do you do? According to McGowan, this concentration on the what is part of the problem. The future of work need not be a dystopian nightmare. The goal of your organization isnt value creation. The challenge in that is when it comes to adaptation, which requires confidence. A good trick is to begin by shifting that question from what exactly do you want to do?, to why exactly do you want to do it?. The Adaptation Advantage, written in collaboration with fellow future-of-work thought leader Chris Shipley, offers transformative insight into what a fast-changing world means for work and workers, and lights a path forward for anyone who works and leads others in their work.. With over 75 graphics that make tough concepts easily visible in Heather's distinct style, The Adaptation Advantage . Capacity is a companys ability to respond to opportunity. Twitter split off onto its own platform and went global in 2007. Two experiments highlight the challenges leaders face today: Let go of the cookie. Market climate change is on the horizon. Consider the questions we commonly ask in conversations. Not surprisingly, respondents trusted media in varying degrees according to their personal political leanings, further entrenching themselves in political tribalism. IBM CEO Ginni Rometty believes that artificial intelligence (AI) will likely transform 100 percent of jobs in 10 years. By And 1.9 billion YouTubers, compared to 1.23 billion Indians. Adaptability requires you add something. Celebrated New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman perfectly captures this moment in history in his most recent book, Thank You for Being Late. Future of work experts Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley argue that while technology may be the engine for massive change, humans remain in the drivers seat. An important milestone, no doubt. Turn the Right People into Great Teams 209 We are all works in progress and we need to imagine, or rather reimagine, who we are in the context of a changing future of work. First-, Second-, and Third-Generation Learning Organizations 98 In other words, your house may be underwater, even if your mortgage is not. Yet, paradoxically, even as we are more connected, we are lonelier. Religion 22 Instead of focusing so relentlessly on the financials, its possible to look at organizations across two key areas: culture and capacity. Whether you were born digital or born analog, The Adaptation Advantage is an indispensable resource for thriving in a world that is transforming as you read this. Jim Kouzes, Coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and Executive Fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Leavey School of Business, Heather McGowan and Chris Shipley are prophets of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We are in the midst of the greatest velocity of change in human history at the same time we are experiencing the greatest leaps in human longevity. In other words, its not enough to ask whether you have the people or even the right people. You will need the adaptation advantage. The shift from fixed to fluid gender identity is being fueled by younger generations, Pew Research discovered. By the end of 2019, 14 states in the United States offered X in addition to M and F as options in answer to gender questions, up from only three states the previous year. 2: The Only Things Moving Faster Than Technology Are Cultural and Social Norms. Whether you were born digital or born analog, this book is your indispensable resource for thriving in a world that is transforming as you read this." Jim Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge Second, to succeed, we need to let go of the way weve always done it andmore importantlyour professional identities. And with that intelligence, we can make your car drive itself, your refrigerator stock itself, and your shirt talk to your doctor and then tell your grocer which healthy foods to deliver to your home. A global pandemic proves that we are inextricably connected whether we choose to be or not. A few months later, Merriam-Webster selected they as the word of the year for 2019. There is no reason to believe that the pace of technological change will slow, and were going to need new skills to stick to the pace. So Whats Changing? Consider that, according to McGowan, a job loss can take twice as long to recover from than the loss of a primary relationship. Stuff is changing fast these days. Humans are creative, generate ideas, make connections between unrelated phenomena and see things from different points of view. In 2014, the global sea level topped 2.6 inches above the sea level of just 20 years earlier. Every time we hand something off to technology, McGowan says, we need to reach up to learn new skills. Thats the adaptation advantage. Thethree climate changes will reshape ethics, community, geopolitics, politics, work and education. And please visit us at www.adaptationadvantage.com. Acknowledging a new era ofunprecedented uncertainty, McGowan and Shipley posit a future in which humans share knowledge andbuild meaningful workplace cultures. A helpful and/or enlightening book that stands out by at least one aspect, e.g. People differ from animals by their pedagogical learning stance: an ability to take what they have learned and apply it to different situations and problems. Nearly 9,000 tweets and 930 Instagram photos have been added to an already overwhelming cloud of content. Therefore, we use a set of 20 qualities to characterize each book by its strengths: Applicable Youll get advice that can be directly applied in the workplace or in everyday situations. How Big is the Challenge? McGowan and Shipley give us permission to be entrepreneurial by exploring the natural pathway to engagement in a context of uncertainty. Wait a Second 3 Fit springs from aspirations, not qualifications. So, how do you capitalize on this additional time? Indeed, the year 2007 was a remarkable year. After your name in your email signature line, you may simply offer: She/Her/Hers or He/His or They/Theirs. As we discussed in Chapter 1, the top 10 population centers in the world include only two countries. The management consulting firm Deloitte first noted this divide in its Deloitte Human Capital Trends report. In this push to a digital world, any physical or mental task with a predictable, repeatable outcome will be handled by an algorithm. Technology is transforming the world of work faster than ever. Why purpose and learning are more important than ever in the tech-driven economy. Culture is a sense of purpose and value and which companies create either intentionally or accidentally. . That gap does not appear to be narrowing. Its in that space, between work in progress and finished, that workers find themselves today. If culture is the heart of an organization, capacity is its brain. And both depend on leadership and people. Adapting to the future of work has always called for strong leadership. How do we delight them in a way that gives them something they might not even know they wanted, something they didnt even know how to ask for? McGowan explains, Thats where data comes in. Shifts in context help businesses acknowledge their biases. Blending wisdom from interviews with hundreds of executives, The Adaptation Advantage explains the profound changes happening in the world of work and posits the solution: new ways to think about careers that detach our sense of pride and personal identity from our job title, and connect it to our sense of purpose. 8 Very good. Death of Distance Reshapes Human Relationships 30 Who are we in the context of a rapidly transforming digital revolution? We even encourage this attitude in young people. Facebook opened its platform to anyone with a registered email address and went global in 2007. Working to learn is the cornerstone of the adaptation advantage. Our ability to continue to adapt with agility and without fear is fundamental to our future prosperity. The 2018 midterm elections in the United States were marked by the greatest number of women and the most racially and culturally diverse candidates in history. And it looks like we have a pretty good reason to be afraid before too long, well be out of work, sitting at home with nothing to do . We have reviewed the language that we use in announcements and elsewhere and will make sure that it is fully inclusive, reflecting the great diversity of London, said London mayor Sadiq Khan at the time. While Blockbuster went from $6 billion USD in revenue/turnover in 6 years, Netflix swelled to over $15 billion in revenue and a market capitalization of over $250 billion because they continually adapted from DVDs by mail to streaming to creating original content all the while focusing on increasing their leverage of data to help delight customers with content suggestions. Facebook, YouTube, and Whatsapp all host larger populations on their social media platforms. Great info. How can a child imagine a future self in a world changing so fast that many jobs of the future dont yet exist? Heather E. McGowan and Others 4.3 6 Ratings; $17.99; $17.99; Publisher Description. But cross we must because the future is coming at us faster than we can understand it. 1: The World Is Fast: Technology Is Changing Everything and Planting Opportunity Everywhere. Driverless cars, one day soon, will automatically arrive to whisk us to our scheduled appointments, and groceries will be delivered to our doors from orders placed by a smart refrigerator that senses we are out of milk or need eggs. First, success in the future of work centers on our ability to learn, unlearn, and adapt. What Does the Parable of the Three Stonecutters Have to Do with You? Engaging Youll read or watch this all the way through the end. Read 14 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. With an insightful foreword by New York Times columnist and bestselling author Thomas L. Friedman, The Adaptation Advantage: Let Go, Learn Fast, and Thrive in the Future of Work is an important resource for all leaders looking to help people develop the resilient, adaptive identities necessary to flourish in the rapidly changing workplace . Human cognition has benefited from 3.8 billion years of evolutionary R&D.. And we have to realize that well have multiple work- worlds and we cant get too attached to those worlds, to any form of work identity.". If culture is the heart of a company, capacity is its brain.. Throughout this book, we use the term artificial intelligence to discuss computing systems that are able to execute well-defined cognitive tasks. How do I invest in, empower and integrate the talents on this team? Thats setting the conditions for adaptation. Prior economic transformationsagrarian to mechanized production, for examplewere absorbed over many decades, even hundreds of years. Market climate change is on the horizon. The World Bank predicts that as many as 143 million people will become climate migrants, leaving parts of the globe devastated by draught, floods, and failing crops. About the Authors 229 The scale of global trading partners affects the pace of business growth, too. And what happened while you were listening? By nurturing a working environment which bolsters capacity, companies can learn from, and seize the opportunities presented by these bias-busting moments. According to the Institute for the Future, the skills that we need most of all, in fact relate to social intelligence and thinking in novel and adaptive ways. The three climate changes will reshape ethics, community, geopolitics, politics, work and education. The good news is that we can change, too. With little friction to slow digital flows, this change occurred in the past five years. Deep technologies can reach into places so deep and produce outcomes, insights, and impacts so profound and accurate that we also needed a new adjective to describe them. And this is where agility comes into the equation. The First Industrial Revolution was marked by the steam engine and the Second Industrial Revolution brought electrification and the division of labor; together, these first two revolutions created tools that supplemented muscle. She argues that we begin to establish that identity early on. Chances are, when you meet someone, this is one of the first things you talk about. The new world of work will require different things from its leaders. Its quite reasonable to assume that she will outlive that expectation by a decade or more. Some call these soft skills; we think they are what make us uniquely human. And at this very moment, more than 2.8 million emails are being sent, not all of them by actual humans. Adapting to the future of work has always called for strong leadership. In a nutshell, social skills are key. Rapid unlearning and adaptation are both about how we embrace and absorb new skills and how we let go of old ones. Adaptability, they argue, is the most significant determinant of success for individuals and organizations, now and in the future. In short, we will all need the adaptation advantage. Specifically, the 20 years between 1995 and 2015 saw a 20% decline in manufacturing jobs and a 27% increase in service jobs that do not require little training or education.3 The greatest shift thus far has been in technologys ability to consume routine work, giving rise to nonroutine work. In fact, in just over five years, the virtual population of Estonia is growing significantly faster than its physical population. According to the author there are two key components to good leadership: first, you must model the way, next, you enable others to act. Change is now happening faster than ever in human history. Move fast. Technology is accelerating the pace of business at unthinkable speeds, so much so that the job you have today, the workforce you currently manage, or perhaps the job you are training or studying for now is changing as quickly as you read this page. Atomization, Automation, and Augmentation 38 Three climate changes are happening all at once, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman tells us. If the speed of digital commerce seems breakneck now, when less than 20% of the US economy has transformed to digital, just imagine the pace of a fully digitized, global economy. As we enter the augmented era in which we partner with sophisticated technology, knowing must give way to learning. The Questions That Limit Our Identity 65 Far from the power dynamic of the Mad Men era, women score higher than men on a vast majority of leadership competencies, according to research published by Harvard Business Review.11 (The same study noted that we have much more work to do to bridge the advanced degree and leadership gap for underrepresented minorities. The Uniqueness of the Human Drive to Learn and Create 119 Demographically, huge shifts are taking place in the Western world in terms of race, religion, gender identity, aging populations. A left and right political choice will give way to governments that are responsive, adaptable and swift. Notes 114, 8 Rise of the Humans: Developing Your Creativity, Empathy, and Other Uniquely Human Capabilities 117 contains uncommonly novel ideas and presents them in an engaging manner. About the author Now, we are entering the Fourth Industrial Revolution, steeped in advanced software and real-time data and offering tools that augment, and in some cases even replace, human cognitive labor. McGowan believes that everyone needs to be able to define themselves beyond the scope of a job. Theyre critical maybe even more important than the tech skills we tend to want to prioritize, like STEM subjects in education: science, technology, engineering, and math. Third, leaders must get comfortable with failure, not knowing, ambiguity, and vulnerability to create the requisite psychological safety to lead our teams. And while you might not directly link environmental climate change to work, the effect of shifting climate will have a profound impact on human habitation. Its undermining our sense of identity and challenging our ability to adapt. Its not just technology thats changing work; dramatic shifts in society and global economics are shaking up our worlds. The products that youre creating, become an expression of your culture and proof of your capacity. Automation does replace some jobs, but mostly automation alters jobs. Women are earning increasing respect, power, and authority in the workplace, academia, and all walks of life. IBM CEO Ginni Rometty puts a fine point on this distinction: I expect AI to change 100% of jobs within the next five to 10 years., Rometty isnt alone in this prediction. There is hidden wisdom in Gilberts assurance, a wisdom that finds itself at the heart of this book. What you learn from this book, though, is that, yes, indeed, robots can take your job. Data was reflective. In fact, by all estimations, the slowest rate of change you will experience for the rest of your life is right now. Our current, mostly binary choicescapital versus labor, big government versus small governmentthat define the left and right simply wont be relevant. The other eight are social media platforms. . Heat waves longer. If we can barely imagine a one-seconds-worth digital deluge, how will we get our heads around the implications for so much change, let alone adapt to it? The Adaptation Advantageis an essential guide to help leaders meet that challenge. Final Summary You may be adjusting now but buckle up; the slowest rate of change you will feel for the rest of your life is right now! Share with friends Buy on Amazon Key idea 1 of 5 Things are changing fast at the moment - and you're already adapting. Since societies are formed by a common language, culture, currency, and assets, we have to consider how new societies will be enabled by digital technology. The Adaptation Advantage: Let Go, Learn Fast, and Thrive in the Future of Work by Heather McGowan The Adaptation Advantage book. The world is on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, in which cyber and biological systems will combine to create a completely digital economy. So a single leader is probably not going to be able to understand every part of their companys work in detail. Jobs change so quickly that your current job may not exist in 18 to 24 months. In the late 80s and early 90s, professionals entered a workforce where the Internet had little commercial impact, software came on floppy disks, a mobile phone was the size of a brick, social media was an evening book club, and artificial intelligence was science fiction. Chris Shipley | Website You actually wont hire for skills anymore, you will hire for propensity to learn.2 In other words, you will hire for the adaptation advantage. We need to concentrate on abilities such as collaboration, design thinking, creativity, agility and empathy, what McGowan calls uniquely human skills.. We designed this book with organizations in mind and specifically created sections for teams and leadership. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 2019 Employment Outlook predicted that 14% of jobs could be lost and 32% transformed through automation and that 60% of all workers lacked the necessary information and communications technology (ITC) or computer skills for that new work. Suddenly, with just one touch, on an Uber or Didi app, I could page a taxi, direct a taxi, pay a taxi, rate a taxi, and be rated by a taxi. Describe the ideal candidate, not the job. Silicon cognition (AI) cannot replicate sentience or wisdom that comes from the organic cognition that humans evolved for millennia. But we will always need humans to translate and augment the latest technology and we will always need humans to make meaning, joy, and connections that entertain us, inspire us, and connect us the moment we put our technology down. Young people must understand identity as a constant negotiation between internal beliefs and observations and social and cultural forces. If youre feeling nervous about the fast-pace of change, take some time to reflect on one of the hardest lessons youve learned. getAbstract Summary: Get the key points from this book in 10 minutes.Future of work experts Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley argue that while technology may be the engine for massive change, humans remain in the driver's seat. In fact, since the 2008 recession, growth in business productivity (gross domestic product per hour worked) stands at its lowest rate since the early 1970s (1.3%).8, Why the gap? adaptation investments in economic and financial terms. . And theres a good reason for this change: machines are genuinely better than humans at routine and well-defined tasks. Societally, we neither planned for nor funded the 20 or 30 years of retirement that is the reality of our longer lives. Currency, collaboration and contracts, among other transactions, will all becomedigital and move at the speed of light. We need to focus on our whythe purpose, passion, and curiosity that drives us; and our howour ability to increase our capacity. Twenty-one percent of heterosexual couples and 70% of same-sex couples now say they met their partners online. We are executive or entrepreneur, teacher or technician, politician or plumber. Hadoop softwarewhich enabled a million computers to work together as if they were one, giving us Big Datawas launched in 2007. Graduates in STEM programs make more money in their first ten years, but if they dont work on the aforementioned skills, their value will decline. And according to Dr. Kelter, they enjoyed themselves gleefully covering themselves in crumbs as their subordinates looked on. Currency, collaboration and contracts, among other transactions, will all become digital and move at the speed of light. Every great culture has a sense of purpose that the company and its leaders must model daily. So, yes tech is rapidly changing the workplace. 2020. Analytical Youll understand the inner workings of the subject matter. Businesses must change their focus from extracting value to creating new value through learning. 7 Good. An adaptive organization is one that puts culture and capacity first. While an Estonian digital passport doesnt convey the social and tax benefits of the country or the EU, if you want to establish a presence in Europe, open a European bank account, and be paid in euros, you can become a digital citizen for about USD110. Most of us can remember who we were 10 years ago, Gilbert says, but we find it hard to imagine who were going to be, and then we mistakenly think that because its hard to imagine, its not likely to happen. If work shifts, we shift. McGowan and Shipley put humans at the centeras well they should. Scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) predict that seas will continue to rise at a rate of about one-eighth of an inch per year, contributing to coastal erosion, devastating storm surges, and deeper in-land flooding. So while the developed world is adapting to aging societies, youth booms in the developing world demand a different adaptation. In the United States between 2009 and 2019, according to Pew Research, the share of adults who identify as Christian declined from 77% to 65%, while the share who claimed no religion at all rose from 17% to 26%.4 In 2019, Harvard graduated the first class with more declared atheists than declared Christians, the most since its founding in 1636.5 According to research by Pew, Christianity will cease to be the worlds largest religion in the next 50 years or so. Their extraordinary insights and tools challenge and empower organizations, leaders, and people across society to thrive in a future marked by exceptional technological and societal change. Major General James Johnson, U.S. Air Force (ret), former Director of Air Force Integrated Resilience, The Adaptation Advantage makes sense of the confusing and scary world of change. The confidence to be both right and the strength to be vulnerable; the ability to be comfortable not knowing or being wrong. Weve got to be comfortable putting women into positions of power before theyve proven themselves, which we are somehow more comfortable doing with men. On the other hand, we no longer see the working of everyday things that have been made invisible through automation. 1. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, studies organizational behavior, specifically of teams and adaptability. It provides actionable insights on how to tap into uniquely human attributes like adaptation to excel. But what about social media populations? Building adaptive teams means embracing adaptive hiring strategies. He took advantage of the social principles that existed in South Africa to dysfunctional the law for himself. When a problem is specific and bounded, artificial intelligence techniques can solve it rather well. The data that flows like water brings insight into just about everything. Now, as a pandemic disrupts so many aspects of work, adapting is a leadership imperative. Prioritizing STEM capacities for the next generation may be a waste of time: Machines will do those tasks better. Modeling the way is leadership in the truest sense: its being unafraid to go first, allowing yourself to be vulnerable and making sure your employees trust you. Putting It All Together 173 Even the mighty Steve Jobs was famously fired from his own company, Apple. Fail and get better. Books 225 And retirement? ), Women now far outnumber men among recent college graduates in most industrialized countries.12 Indeed, women have outnumbered men in degree attainment in the United States for the past 20 years. These are our skills, they are our opportunity, with our non-machine brains, to excel. Were going to have the best locations. The rate of change is increasing exponentially. The Adaptation Advantage | Website In fact, we define ourselves by our work and we expect people to have clearly defined careers like lawyer or doctor.. Cultural norms are undergoing tectonic shifts. How often have you been asked, What do you do for a living? And, be honest, how often have you asked the question yourself? The Power of Pause 47 Think of culture as your companys heart. Not so fast, friends. The US representation in government is coming closer to mirroring the populace it represents. An Occupational Identity Crisis Isnt Limited to Job Loss 78 "The Adaptation Advantage is a masterclass in how individuals and organizations can and must develop the capacity to change fast and learn faster. The Adaptation Advantage: Answers for the Here & Now 'Rapid unlearning and adaptation are both about how we embrace and absorb new skills and how we let go of old ones. How Did We Get Here? This environmental climate change, the New York Times Friedman contends, is fundamentally reshaping our geopolitical and economic foundations. Our concise videos cover various business topics. And Blockbuster went from $6 billion to bankrupt in six years, the shift was so fast.. The Adaptation Advantage makes sense of the confusing and scary world of change. This shift in retirement age is evident no more clearly than in the American Association for Retired Persons, or AARP. So whats the next platform? 175 So, what do you do? You might use platforms like Upwork or Fiverr to outsource work, platforms that help you break down big tasks into smaller, more manageable units also known as the atomization of work. Around 2007, another set of technologies came together that had the effect of making the world fast. This was also driven by a price collapsea collapse in the price of computers, storage, software broadband, and smartphones. Machines lack common sense. Understanding the need for continuous adaptation is the first step in achieving the adaptation advantage. And who hasnt broken social ice by asking someone, What do you do?. Table of Contents *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Within the typical span of a 30-year mortgage, nearly $120 billion of US housing stock will be at risk from chronic flooding, according to an economic report published by the Union of Concerned Scientists. What data will we use to train machine learning systems without bias? Those companies have a tendency to hire people who align with what they believe and what they want to do, people who are seeking to increase their own capacity; theyre trying to learn more, theyre trying to advance. In a word: everything. Learn FastWhat Does That Even Mean? Companies that were once containers for jobs will become platforms that combine human and technological know-how. Now, though, these geolocated populations are being eclipsed by a new form of associationonline platforms. We are driving faster and faster toward a horizon that none of us can see with perfect vision, and were doing it with one eye in the rearview mirror. As worldwide economies cross the bridge from analog to digital, every part of global businesscurrency, credentials, contracts, collaborationswill be backed by and amplified by digital technologies. In the report How Employable is the UK? In 2017, just 2% of venture capital funding went to startups founded by women, and women made up just 9% of the decision-makers at US venture capital firms.17. xviii At an exponential pace, the first few steps feel comfortably manageable, but the further along the scale, the divergence explodes. Be more vulnerable and available and share your values with your people. Objects will contain sensors connected to networks where data drives decisions in real time. Humans have extraordinary skills that no machine can masterand thats a good thing. While attitudes towards issues like racism and sexual harassment have changed almost overnight. Read that again: As all the people youve ever been. When Uber took its ride-hailing service to Miami, the city reached 1 million riders in just two years. A helpful and/or enlightening book that is extremely well rounded, has many strengths and no shortcomings worth mentioning. Weve Already Begun to Outsource Our Memory 35 These questions, it turns out, are traps. Weve already touched on culture. In order to do that, though, were going to have to confront who we think we are, at least professionally, so that we can reimagine, and reimagine again, and again, who we are in the context of a changing future of work. Many aspects of the biological world will be augmented by robotic and cognitive technologies. Blending wisdom from interviews with hundreds of executives, The Adaptation Advantage explains the profound changes happening in the world of work and posits the solution: new ways to think about careers that detach our sense of pride and personal identity from our job title, and connect it to our sense of purpose. 1 The World is Fast: Technology is Changing Everything and Planting Opportunity Everywhere 3 After all, thats the advantage of being unique take that, robots! WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger also beat India when it comes to population size. To Maximize Human Potential, Place the Human in the Center 137 McGowan says, We thought [the virus] was on surfaces. Business. Identify and eliminate anything anti-culture. People of Latin American dissent once referred to themselves as Latino (male) or Latina (female), and now more frequently use Latinx to signify liberty from a gender marker. Forget about creating super chickens. Psychological security will be dependent on our abilities to define, own, and embrace the fundamental aspects and values of our complex selves undeterred by external changing norms. Starting right now, you'll get a new summary sent to your inbox every Tuesday. "- McGowan and Shipley, The Adaptation Advantage, We have already outsourced our memory. These leading organizations are signaling a profound shift in how we think about people in our society whom we have long considered retirement age.. Workers must have social and emotional intelligence, creative thinking, communication and judgement skills, along with sensemaking ability and empathy. For many, individual personal and professional identity have been disrupted by some of these demographic, social, and cultural changes. When Uber entered the market in Shanghai, however, they hit the million-rider milestone in less than two weeks. Oh, and 2.8 million emails were sent as well. Accidental culture occurs when culture evolves without intention and almost always proves toxic. They can then automate or atomize these parts and distribute them to the cloud where humans will compete for them. Visionary Youll get a glimpse of the future and what it might mean for you. Another way to look at the relative value of a star performer is through the metaphor of sport. This formation of new, virtual societies reinforces the information and relationship filters that fortify our biases and beliefs. Thats no longer the case. That insight became our guide for this book, and we hope this book will be your guide to becoming more adaptable and to thriving in the future of your work. Answering those questions isnt quite as simple as it once was when we lived in a world in which change was nominal and influence and impact were local. Kids need foundational knowledge that helps them put data in context. The Deloitte report attributes it to human capital strategieshow businesses organize, manage, develop, and align people at work.. The Predictive Markets Declare Future Skills Favor Humans 122 People may feel changes within the realm of work most keenly, because work is very personal: It provides people with a sense of identity and purpose. Summary Technology is transforming the world of work faster than ever. Right now, 76,000 Google searches are returning tens of billions of results links. One is physical. Michael Dell, the founder of Dell, retired in 2005. Not to freak you out or anything, but if you think things are changing fast now . Select a shelf to add "The Adaptation Advantage". What do you do? IBM launched Watson, the worlds first cognitive computer, in 2007. For 100 euros, anyone can become a digital resident of Estonia and, by extension, the European Union. So, you cant have people who rely on that expertise., What do organizations need to meet the opportunities presented by the future of work? 217 Technological Climate Change 5 And when it comes to changes in the workplace, theres, of course, the impact of technology, but thats been going on for a while now. You could find a truth that best fit your personal ideology simply by changing channels. 97 So, think about the hardest experiences youve faced so far in your career, take a moment to write down the answers to these questions: What did you learn from the experience? More urgently in need of a reimagined future is the 55-year-old woman who launched her career some 30 years ago, planned to retire at age 65, and expected to live into her 70s. And we can do all of that now with no touch. It all just happens by sensors talking to machines and vice versa. In 2007, he decided hed better come back to workbecause in 2007, the world started to get really fast. In various business, academic, government, and other forms, you may be asked to declare your personal pronoun preference. In truth, we are all works in progress and we need to imagine, or rather reimagine, work. In only a few generations, weve seen life expectancy grow from about 40 years in 1850 to 69 years in 1950 and likely 100 years or for those born in 2050. To his list, we add two more, seemingly at odds, elements of change: invisibility and visibility. The short answer is that technology moves up in steps, and each step tends to be biased toward a certain set of capabilities. Please upgrade your plan to Professional or Premier to view this product. How did you adapt? At IBM, for example, the company reported that the average of 4 days of training needed to close the skills gap in 2014 had jumped to 36 days by 2018. xxii According to the US Census Bureau, the number of adults over 65 is on track to double between 2000 and 2030; those over 85 are the fastest-growing segment of the US population. Heres just one example of the huge-scale changes that are underway. We're committed to helping #nextgenleaders. When people say, I cant imagine that, theyre usually talking about their own lack of imagination, and not about the unlikelihood of the event that theyre describing.1, But change is happening, and happening at a rate that is only getting faster. xxix . Your free summaries start now! And thats why we wrote this book: to help you better understand what is happening to work and why it matters to you. We have to devote time to learning good leadership skills. Introduction: Learn how to embrace adaptability in the workplace. Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think theyre finished, psychologist Dan Gilbert famously observed in a 2014 TED Talk viewed by more than 4.5 million people. Best of all, the entire transaction is done digitally; you dont even have to travel to Estonia to become a part of the countrys now growing virtual population. Science is just beginning to understand how our brains change with age, but most agree that fluid intelligenceour ability to rapidly and easily adapt to constant changepeaks at about the age of 20. Hurricanes will be stronger. We cant just decide to deal with it later. In Asia, and particularly Japan, where more than 12% of the population is over 75, these shifting demographics are having a profound impact. Summary with The Adaptation Advantage (Summary) near you. The results were always the same in the overall trend that its the bully that suppresses the productivity of the rest of the group. But this doesnt mean were about to lose our jobs to robots, in fact, we might say the opposite is true. For many whose identity is centered on a particular faith, that pillar may be shaken as that faith is less and less a shared experience among all the peers they interact with. This is because were forced to adapt and go beyond what we initially thought was the limit of our capacity. But, according to Heather McGowan and Chris Shipley, authors of The Adaptation Advantage, perhaps the opposite is true. We discovered that we needed a new word, a new adjective, to describe the fact that deep technologies have two qualities that we could tell were a difference in degree that was a difference in kind. Your current subscription plan doesnt include this video. If that sounds like you, and you are reading this book as it was published a full decade before that milestone, you know that work has changed, and that you will need to change with it. Women entered the workforce en masse in the 1970s and now, almost 50 years later, we are seeing the dramatic (if slowly attained) shift in how women and men are treated at work. Each of those people youve ever been is a version of a personal identity that has evolved over your lifea child, a student, a partner, an athlete, a traveler. And the Arctic Ocean is expected to be ice-free by mid-century. They will require five types of talent: Young graduates can expect to work in 17 different jobs during their lifetimes. Acknowledgments 227 They will scale very quickly and be incredibly cost effective. In truth, a general AIone able to fully mimic the complex thinking and manage the rapid context shifting of the human brainis far from realized with todays technology. Notes 193, 11 Capability is King: Looking Beyond the Resume to Design Your Adaptive Team 195 The essay launching Bitcoin was written in 2006. Technology used to be something you learned to use to do your job. Your highlights will appear here. That works out to between 14% to 16% of all working hours now required for skills training just to stay current. That is far too old-fashioned. For those experiencing an identity crisis, it is almost impossible to learn and adapt to change. Where community once meant the people who lived and worked nearby, community has slipped physical ties to include the people weve connected and formed bonds with online, people we may never even meet in person. They didnt throw out a job description and look for somebody whos done these X things before, these Y things before, because thats irrelevant when youre looking to do something youve never done before. In short, this book is for anyone who intends to work in the future of work. This is important reading. Jim Spohrer, PhD., IBM Director, Cognitive Open Technologies, An indispensable guide to navigate this new era in the workplace. Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, The Adaptation Advantage is a masterclass in how individuals and organizations can and must develop the capacity to change fast and learn faster. Gender identity is changing perhaps faster than any other social construct. Often an instant classic and must-read for everyone. Already our phones and computers download and update software without our intervention. They told us in January we didnt need to wear it. We have to be comfortable enough, especially when things are changing quickly, to say, I dont know, and to change tactic when new information appears, McGowan says. Within three months, the homeshare service listed some 2,000 accommodations. We were wiping everything down, and then we learned only a very small percentage of people can get the virus from surfaces, and a whole lot more can get it from droplets in the vaporization of our breath. Moore, it turns out, was not nearly far-sighted enough. Notes 223, Additional Resources 225 The straight line from education to career to retirement will disappear. Now, you may find yourself panicking at this stage. Your parents, and especially your grandparents, met the challenge of this change much later in their lives. These reconfigurations of family challenge the boundaries of traditional values when those values are exercised in unfamiliar ways. There are a lot of snappy, shorthand ways I could summarize Heather and Chriss book, but my favorite is this phrase that they use to encapsulate the essence of what they are saying: the abiding clich and dominant news headline in the workplace these days is that the robots are going to take your job. Maybe sales are sluggish; maybe your product is out of date. The lack of readily accessible birth control, the desirability of large families for providing agricultural labor, and the relative lower cost of raising children is driving overall fertility rates considerably higher than in developed countries. What Do We Mean by Learning? This phenomenon is not unique to the United States. Upskilling means gaining deeper knowledge of your professional domain. In a fast-changing world, we have to look past our work-based identity, move beyond the comfort of our current knowledge and skills, and prepare ourselves and the organizations we lead to adapt continuously to a rapidly changing future of work. To seize the adaptation advantage for individuals and organizations. Technological augmentation, atomization and automation mean you must upskill and reskill for the future. A global pandemic proves that we are inextricably connected whether we choose to be or not. Likewise, that ice-breaker question What do you do? loses its relevance when our job is no longer our primary identity. California passed a law requiring publicly traded companies headquartered in the state to have at least one female board member by the end of 2019. Concrete Examples Youll get practical advice illustrated with examples of real-world applications or anecdotes. Of course, making this transition is hard. Subtopic. [05:11] - The Adaptation Advantage seems to be a culmination of your work. Despite, or perhaps because of, the networks that bind us together, societies seem more divided. Return on Humans for All Jobs: The Special Power of Empathy 134 Cherish alternative points of view; they bring cognitive diversity to your organization. The book is designed for easy reading. Get AESC SmartBrief for the latest in C-level news. Chris Shipley, Artificial intelligence is not one but dozens, if not hundreds, of component technologies. From sci-fi depictions of autonomous robots with a mind of their own to Apples Siri answering our most basic questions, artificial intelligence (AI)in pop culture and realityhas endured more than 30 years of hype, yet still comes up short of the bold promise of a broadly intelligent computing system. We ask children what they want to be when they grow up and subtly nudge them in sensible directions when they tell us theyd like to grow up to be a unicorn. We also ask students what they want to major in; even in those incredibly formative years, were expecting them to specialize. Notes 139, Part III: Leading People and Organizations in the Evolution of Work 143 The other quality is existential. During third generation acceleration, the first two phases, Explore and Experiment, occur more frequently than during the Execute and Expand phases. And finally, in Chapter 11, we offer advice on how to recruit and organize talent for this rapidly emerging new world of work. Language can now be translated in real time by artificial intelligence. So, who is going to be taking the Not the robots, thats for sure! Work is deeply engrained in our psyche. Notes 95, 7 Learning Fast: Why an Agile Learning Mindset is Essential 97 We took friction and complexity out of so many things. Friedmans belief was incredibly influential for many years. Work we love, work with purpose, is essential for every worker, not just the luxury of a few. The days when the shareholder is king and workers are merely a cost that companies seek to minimize are almost over. Why? We all need to develop an agile mindset and tap into what makes us unique as humans. In short, the OECD describes a world of work rapidly transforming while most of us are flat-footed, unprepared to respond, let alone proactively adapt. When our gender, family, and racial and cultural clans give way to diverse and global communities, we need to find new tethers for our complex identities. This is a more radical suggestion than it sounds at first. In some regions, growing seasons will be longer. What, then, happens when that identity is threatened? Notes xxx, Part I: Adapting at the Speed of Change 1 By some estimates, people in the developed world are spending 51% of their time online. Cultures are forming and clustering in social media rather than IRL (the text messaging acronym for in real life). And that is why, in my opinion, deep is the word of the year. The Agile Learning Mindset 104 It is the quality of the relationship that makes the difference.. But to be clear, purpose is not some inner secret that is magically revealed. Family 25 The Force of Three Amplifying and Interlocking Climate Changes 12 Increasingly, these technologies are making inroads in the knowledge economy: fields like law, finance and medicine. 9 Superb. Foreword byNew York Timescolumnist and best-selling author Thomas L. Friedman. Enjoy 3 days of full online access to 25,000+ summaries Who is This Book For? We need to overcome the fixed-occupational identity, McGowan says. Talk a little bit about what you mean by adaptation, what that involves, and how that gives us an advantage. In fact, recent census data project that by 2045, white/Caucasian may no longer be the majority race in the United States.3 It wasnt that long ago that a large family was beneficial, especially for families who made their living in farming and other labor-intensive small enterprises. Meeting the Future Skills Challenge, Barclays found that nearly 60% of adults lack all the core employability skills needed for the future world of work, notably among them proactivity, adaptability, and leadership.6, It should be no surprise, then, that our old measure of potential successIQ (intelligence quotient)has given way to EQ (emotional intelligence quotient) and is shifting yet again to AQ (adaptability quotient). Three profound and fast-moving changes are disrupting work. Yet we must also acknowledge that the shift in the gender-based power dynamic in education, business, Congress, and beyond both threatens and empowers, and it has certainly left many men feeling adrift. . Book Summary: The Adaptation Advantage - Let Go, Learn Fast, and Thrive in the Future of Work The Adaptation Advantage (2020) explores how to navigate the future of work - without worrying about the robots taking over. The Adaptation Advantage is an essential guide to help leaders meet that challenge. Jobs found himself starting again. In order to better understand how to optimize adaptation, we began looking deeply at the questions surfaced by an unknowable future of work nearly five years ago. Hiring only the best might result in top performers turning on one another. In a world in which more and more people are working outside of the company headquarters, the possibilities for finding new talent are almost unlimited. The exponential growth in technological capability explains much about the changes we experience at work, but it hardly accounts for the profound changes were seeing today in so many aspects of everyday life, changes that inevitably also affect the workplace. Will developers be incented to optimize their algorithms to favor business over workers? 9781119653172. Yet even that comparison doesnt fully capture the impact of exponential change in computing technology, so imagine this: if the Volkswagen Beetle progressed along the same trajectory as semiconductors, that car today would be able to travel 300,000 miles per hour, get 2 million miles per gallon, and cost just four cents. AsNew York Timeswriter Thomas Friedman puts it: Later is over. To avert catastrophe for the next generation, humans mustadapt, now. There are four stages in the learning process that form a kind of S-curve on a graph: explore, experiment, execute, and expand. Heather E. McGowan | Website And you just happened to be here. New networks with obvious political opinions on both sides of the aisle made the scene, and before long, fact and analysis swam in the same pool.
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