The document discusses strategies for survival and career fulfillment in a changing work environment. It outlines how work is shifting from traditional hierarchical jobs to more flexible, expansive work defined by one's purpose. It recommends identifying constraints and goals, developing skills, networking with others, and continually adapting one's approach. The workplace is becoming more chaotic, decentralized and virtual, requiring workers to create their own opportunities and contracts. Success requires interconnection, flexibility and accepting contradiction.

1. Your Survival Strategies In a Perplexing World Donna C. L. Prestwood & Paul A. Schumann, Jr. Glocal Vantage, Inc.

2. Outline Introductions Career Fulfillment in the Horizontal World Weaving Your Own Web www.com: Safety Net or Spider’s Web? Where Does the Corporation Work? Survival Strategies Glocal Vantage, Inc.

3. Introductions Us Them Name, position, company? How long have you been with your present company? What about your work has changed in the last 12 months? (not job but work) Glocal Vantage, Inc.

4. Career Fulfillment In the Horizontal World Transition From the Traditional Hierarchical to the Flattened Organization Shift in Relative Importance of Information, Skills and Abilities What is Career Fulfillment In the Horizontal World? The Seven Practical Steps to Career Fulfillment Glocal Vantage, Inc.

5. Transition From the Traditional Hierarchical to the Flattened Organization Glocal Vantage, Inc.

6. Shift in Relative Importance of Information, Skills and Abilities Glocal Vantage, Inc. I I S S A A

7. Jobs and Work A Job: Bounded, Controlled, Limiting Work: Expansive, Fulfilling, Learning Glocal Vantage, Inc.

8. Job Glocal Vantage, Inc. Directions Policy Procedures Measurements Materials Output A Job Tasks Assignments

9. Work Glocal Vantage, Inc. Purpose Information Skills Abilities Acquire Apply Converse Vision Mission Goals Materials Innovation

10. Work and Your Purpose Glocal Vantage, Inc. Purpose Goals Innovation Time Acquire Apply Converse Acquire Apply Converse Acquire Apply Converse Acquire Apply Converse

11. Working In the Interactive Age Flexibility Responsibility Interconnectedness Responsiveness Lifelong Learning Expanding Capabilities Unfolding Purpose Glocal Vantage, Inc.

12. The Seven Practical Steps to Career Fulfillment Identify the Chains That Bind You Expectations Motivations Patterns of Behavior Identify Specific Goals Assess Your Resistance to and Tolerance for Change Glocal Vantage, Inc.

13. The Seven Practical Steps to Career Fulfillment Identify Areas for Growth Action Point Yourself Toward the Unknown Connect Yourself to Others on the Path Continually Recreate Your Mental Map Glocal Vantage, Inc.

14. Weaving Your Own Web Understanding the Chaotic Workplace The Emerging Implied Work Contract Working With and Through Others Four Principles for Creating Your Own Work Glocal Vantage, Inc.

15. Understanding the Chaotic Workplace Glocal Vantage, Inc. Customers Competitors Technologies Social Political Economic Demographic Scientific Opportunity Threat

16. The Emerging Implied Work Contract Where Has All the Order Gone? People Will Not Be Paid to Watch Other People Work Workers Who Only Do a Good Job Will Be Expendable The End of Regular Hours, Strictly Prescribed Duties, and Consistent Location The End of the “Golden Handcuff” Social Contract The End of the Career Ladder Glocal Vantage, Inc.

17. Working With and Through Others The 4 E’s The 2 C’s L, F or GOW Diversity Systems Thinking Glocal Vantage, Inc.

18. Four Principles for Creating Your Own Work Seek Change Gain the Vantage Point Accept Freedom Delight People Glocal Vantage, Inc.

19. www.com: Safety Net or Spider’s Web? Forces Shaping the Web Interacting Through the Web Working in the Web Living in the Web Glocal Vantage, Inc.

20. Where Does the Corporation Work? Diversity In the Market Place Where Reengineering Is Taking Us Development of the Enterprise The Virtual Organization Glocal Vantage, Inc.

21. Survival Strategies Interconnection Interdependence Any Time Any Place No Matter A Harmony of Contradictions There Are No Spare Parts A Majority of One Glocal Vantage, Inc.

22. Glocal Vantage, Inc. PO Box 161475 Austin, TX 78716 (512) 632-6586 [email_address] www.glocalvantage.com http://incollaboration.com Twitter: innovant2003 Glocal Vantage, Inc.

23. Paul Schumann Futurist and innovation consultant Application of web 2.0 to market & strategic intelligence systems Web 2.0 tools & technologies Application of web 2.0 to democratic processes Broad perspectives on the future Services Strategic market research & technology forecasting Intelligence systems consulting Seminars, webinars & presentations Glocal Vantage, Inc.

24. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. You may distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work, even commercially, as long as you credit me for the original creation as Paul Schumann, Glocal Vantage Inc, www.glocalvantage.com.