Editor’s note: I recorded this as a podcast for Productive Flourishing long after I originally published this post. I hope you enjoy it, and if you’d like to hear more episodes of the podcast, you’ll find them in the show’s archives. From the rise of the Industrial Revolution to about the end of the twentieth century, we could describe the world of work as Career World. But careers, in the way we understood them in the twentieth century, are dead. Welcome to Project World. Before I go on to explain the differences between Project World and Career World, I'll briefly address why the world has changed. The Industrial Revolution brought a shift in society, away from individuals making items for customers they knew in a relatively small-scale, village-based context and toward working in large factories (by which I mean to include more modern-day factories like banks, data centers, and call centers) that create products and solutions for a mass of unknown customers. As our business practices and society shift back to more direct relationships with customers,
Welcome to Project World
Welcome to Project World
Welcome to Project World
Editor’s note: I recorded this as a podcast for Productive Flourishing long after I originally published this post. I hope you enjoy it, and if you’d like to hear more episodes of the podcast, you’ll find them in the show’s archives. From the rise of the Industrial Revolution to about the end of the twentieth century, we could describe the world of work as Career World. But careers, in the way we understood them in the twentieth century, are dead. Welcome to Project World. Before I go on to explain the differences between Project World and Career World, I'll briefly address why the world has changed. The Industrial Revolution brought a shift in society, away from individuals making items for customers they knew in a relatively small-scale, village-based context and toward working in large factories (by which I mean to include more modern-day factories like banks, data centers, and call centers) that create products and solutions for a mass of unknown customers. As our business practices and society shift back to more direct relationships with customers,