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“Jack’s secret is not just to reward people for their profit contribution in the “great game of business.” It’s to put real numbers right in workers’ faces so they make better decisions every minute, every day, for every customer. I would go one step further, and maybe Jack already has. I would give employees a minor share in the overall company, but I would also then use software to measure each individual’s or team’s contributions after fair overhead allocations and direct costs. This would mean the back-line “servers” have fair revenue recognition of their efforts on behalf of the front-line “browsers” who actually serve the end customers. Is this not possible in a light-speed world of software and business metrics? We need more real business leaders and visionaries like Jack Stack, not BS Wall Street leverage artists or old-line corporate managers who merely streamline their top-down management systems while their workers wait for their unfunded retirement and death. And we need real educators, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, who can make science understandable to everyday people. Most of all, we need people to love what they do so much that they won’t even think of retiring at age 63 or 65 or even 75. They’re so productive and happy that they don’t worry about a retirement that doesn’t make sense to them anymore, though it’s there if they have health challenges. They’re too busy satisfying their customers and creating new businesses to contemplate life without that fulfillment. They’re so focused on what they do that they’re like the champion basketball player who’s totally “in state” and one with his process. They’re certainly not bored or waiting to retire and do nothing!”
― Zero Hour: Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage
― Zero Hour: Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage
“The other side of this cycle is more neutral. It’s not as much like the other cycles that turn negative. After all, there is always innovation. Only, it’s during those neutral periods that the next new technologies are emerging into niche markets, while the older wave is maturing and declining. A perfect example of this is biotechnology. Innovation continues exponentially in this arena, but many of the breakthroughs are not yet accessible to the masses. Watch out for this to burst into the mainstream when this technology cycle turns upward again, around 2032, along with nanotechnology, robotics, 3-D printing, and alternative energy. And biotechnology is likely to break out earlier, as electricity did in the early 1900s.”
― Zero Hour: Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage
― Zero Hour: Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage
“while developed-world factory workers worry about the threat of lower-wage Asian and immigrant workers . . . the bigger threat there, to both, is robots! They don’t have emotional problems, and they don’t need healthcare and retirement benefits, just a little maintenance. And then there’s the EVEN greater threat of the automation of left-brain tasks in the office, including many higher professional skills. We ultimately have to become creative, right-brain-oriented entrepreneurial workers who create more customized products and services, delivered in real time . . . to compete with computers that do as much for simple and complex left-brain tasks.”
― Zero Hour: Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage
― Zero Hour: Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage
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