unimagined futures

Developing a work approach that is adequate to the challenges ahead
a world moving toward new and different futureS

Age of Discontinuity (by Peter Drucker—1968)

Knowledge Technologies
- End of Continuity
- New industries
  - Aging "modern industries"
  - Industries on the horizon
  - New knowledge base
- New entrepreneurs
  - Dynamic of technology
  - Dynamic of markets
  - Innovative organization
- New economic policies
  - Tax laws & craft unions
  - Hidden protection/open subsidy
  - Cues from growing edges of the world economy
  - New vs. decay
World economy
- Global Shopping Center
  - Mass consumption / common demand
  - Global Money & Credit
  - An Institution to represent the world economy
- Making the poor productive
  - World divided into those who know how & those who don't
  - Need a theory of economic development
- Beyond the new economics
  - Inability to manage the economy
  - What we need:
Society of organizations
- New pluralism
  - Symbiosis of organizations
  - Need for a theory
- Theory of Organizations
  - Making organization perform
  - Organization & The Quality of Life
  - The legitimacy of organizations
- Sickness of Government
  - Farm out the doing to business & private institutions
  - Abandonment
- How can the individual survive?
  - Every organization, no matter what its legal position or ownership—a special purpose tool
  - Internal powers of the organization
  - Individual freedom: the right to emigrate.
  - Individual opportunity in organization.
Knowledge society
- Knowledge Economy (production, distribution, procuring ideas & info)
  - Central factor of production
  - Importance to international (transnational) economy
  - Learned to learn
  - Know opportunity in large organizations
  - Increased working life span
  - Delayed entry
  - Ratio: productive & dependent members
  - Demand for education
- Work & worker in the Knowledge Society
  - Teams, MBO, task rule
  - Second careers for knowledge workers below top rank
  - Problems of transitions for
- Has Success spoiled the schools?
  - What is school for?
  - Public concern
  - Learned to learn
  - Continuing edcation: best time to learn
  - Impacts of long years of school
- New learning & teaching
  - Right tools & methods
  - Teaching & learning
- Politics of knowledge
  - Organize Knowledge & search for it around areas of application rather than subject
  - Equal opportunity for education
  - High cost = government. Support.
- Does knowledge have a future? (Morality)
  - How people of knowledge accepts & discharge their responsibility
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