adaptive people

I like this:
"The focus of the world of work will move from lifetime employment to lifetime fulfillment" - Kustantinos Apostolatos; Management Centre Europe

Looking down the road a bit, and considering some current trends, it is easy to agree with the following:
1. The concept of the employee will be outdated as people work within an enterprise's ecosystem rather than in structural units.
2. People work on three things: entrepreneurship, autonomy and accountabilities
3. People seek challenges based on: capabilities and intelligence; fun and fulfillment; work and life balance
4. Lifetime generative learning will mean a portfolio of re-inventible competencies, regularly reconfigured to adapt to changing enterprise ecosystems

Is it so simple? Of course not. As William Gibson is widely quoted: "The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet." Meaning, to me: while the Apostolatos quote has tremendous resonance, some of the wildly enthusiatic harbingers of the future ("80% of a workforce will be outsourced. 20% will be core employees; those who will carry on corporate memory and be counted on to resist change".... and so on) seem to forget that we social creatures can only change so much during one lifetime. The vast majority (the great unwashed) "plateau" at a certain point of change and struggle with the next incline. My grandmother plateaued with audio cassettes, my parents have got as far as Facebook. I am committed to a range of 2.0, and eagerly anticipate 3.0, but will certainly plateau before my children do. The great tipping point of personal fulfillment is unlikely to emerge in a cataclysmic burst of energy, but over a longer term. Not that Apostolatos is wrong, but his vision will not be evenly distributed. And then there is hoping of course that, in the meantime, the melting of the glaciars and the eruption of sunspots does not manifest the end of the world as told by the fabled Mayan calendar ;-)