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Some 400 people attended the final NineShift presentation November 21, 2019, at Paradise Point Resort in San Diego.
To mark the celebration, we made 'Game Over' buttons to mark the first full year of the Knowledge Society, which began Jan 1, 2020.
If you want 2 'Game Over' buttons, just mail a self addressed stamped envelope to: LERN, PO Box 9, River Falls, WI 54022.
Thank you for NineShift !
Thank you all so much for your support of NineShift over the past 20 years!
The NineShift story, which predicted and then documented the transformation of society from the Industrial Age of 2000 into the Knowledge Society of 2020, has been complete.
Julie and I will be working on two new projects moving forward:
*LERN Forecasts. While the societal transformation has been completed, the educational and lifelong learning transformation has not been completed (we predict 2030). So we will do a blog and annual session at the big LERN conference called "LERN Forecasts."
*Gender Equality for Boys in Education. We have started ParentsOfBoys, and will continue our work to make U.S. schools and higher education conform to Title IX with respect to eliminating gender discrimination against males in education.
Thanks for the ride!
The numbers on people and companies and hours spent working from home all keep growing.
There’s no sign telecommuting will stop or even plateau.
This is the silent revolution driving the changes in work, life and education in society right now.
Not everyone will work from home, but 25% to 50% of people will.
And those people are the ones most likely to be most productive and generating income for their work organizations.
Just three of the latest stats:
*50% of the US workforce holds a job that is compatible with at least partial telework and approximately 40% of the workforce works remotely at some frequency.
*80% to 90% of the US workforce say they would like to telework at least part-time
*Regular work-at-home, among the non-self-employed population, has grown by 159% since 2005, more than 11x faster than the rest of the workforce and nearly 50x faster than the self-employed population.
We predicted this as Shift One. in our 2000 book NineShift.
You probably don’t realize just how many ‘virtual office’ tools you use.
Dispersed workers are just about in every large organization these days.
They communicate and work together with others from a distance using online tools and software that just keeps getting better, with more of them.
You can think of GotoMeeting as one popular tool. Just in our LERN organization, we use over 10 virtual office tools. We also built three Intranets ourselves, including our Online Classrooms and LERN Club.
In a month we start using our next tool, the Office 365 planner tool for group scheduling.
We predicted this as Shift Two. in our 2000 book NineShift.
The Org Chart is dead.
Leaders are now befuddled about being inbetween the organizational pyramid of the last century and the organizational network of this century.
Organizational structures have been flattened, dispersed, contracted out. The org chart is dead.
What business leaders report is that the network is faster, more productive and more profitable than the pyramid.
At LERN we have not done an org chart for 25 years, since we went virtual.
We predicted this as Shift Three. in our 2000 book NineShift.
REMEMBER, the last NineShift presentation, the Grand Finale, will be streamed online Live!
and Free from Paradise Point Resort in San Diego on Thursday, November 21.
No registration needed.
Just go to www.lern.org to view it.
Noon ET; 11 am CT; 10 am MT; 9 am PT.
What would many, if not most, Americans feel is odd about this picture in downtown Copenhagen, Denmark? The photo appeared this month in a major American newspaper.
While all advanced countries are experiencing the same inevitable transformations in technology and work, we now see the evitable differences in how countries experience the 21st Century.
Our view:
*Not odd someone sleeping on a park bench downtown.
*Not odd a man strolling his child downtown.
*ODD: a man falling asleep downtown with his child and not worrying about the safety of his child while he is sleeping.
Where advanced countries now diverge in their societies of this century is with infrastructure. In this instance, safety downtown in cities.
We want your opinion. And any comments about why, or how.
At the start of every new economic age, every country basically starts all over in a “new game” of economic prosperity. Exactly 100 years ago, Great Britain was the world’s superpower, but lost that status to the United States. Are we seeing the same thing today?
Hit "Comments" below this post and tell us what you think.