Workin' wonderland; where people gravitate and managers navigate

Today’s working environment is in a continuous ‘beta’ state. Change is the status quo. Professional and private lives are intertwined. At the office, in the hospital and at school, facilitating the process is the main challenge. The work force in Wonderland, the authors’ metaphor for tomorrow’s ‘business as usual,’ values professional activities in the light of their personal value systems. They gravitate towards clusters of people and processes that help them nurse those values. Their behavior is based on a navigation course, towards professional and personal objectives, using gravitation fields as beacons and resources. The manager of any gravitation point, the organizations of tomorrow, better be a good pilot, navigator and host, with an imaginative mind, to handle those forces. Thankfully, the competences needed for that job are linked to good old people skills. Much more so than what was needed for the self-created complexities of the industrial era!