Great Jobs Ahead: Your Comprehensive Guide to Personal Business Profit in the New Era of Prosperity

by Harry S. Dent Jr.

Book Overview

A successful consultant shares how to claim a place in his vision of the corporate future, which due to advanced technology will no longer require repetitive tasks, freeing workers to think... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786881585
• ISBN13: 9780786881581
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Hyperion Books
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Redesign to a organization network, customer centric, front line and back line jobs.

Transforming your company into a network organization is an arduous, confusing, and chaotic process. The network organization will be the key to sustaining your competitive edge in the race to dominate the new growth segments in all industries. These times demand revolutionary change, not simple evolution. The goal of the organization when creating the front line is to bring together the smallest number of people to solve most customer problems with little or no back-line intervention. These people must be relational, service-oriented, and like dealing with people; they have natural interest and experience in the arena of the customer interests; enjoy creative problem solving; they are action oriented and experiential by nature; they are looking for long term employment and want to be rewarded for the increasing relationship they build with ongoing customers over time; they must have excellent communication skills; and they must like the responsibility of making decisions and learning from their mistakes. The back-line employees must focus on specialized areas of expertise or products rather than on one segment of customers. People, who work best as generalist have in-depth expertise in one functional area; they will be more logical; they will be more loyal to their profession and more technical then people oriented; they will move in and out of project teams with other specialist to solve problems and then move onto new projects and clients; they will compete with outside specialist as a benchmark of efficiency and effectiveness or risk being outsource; and they will focus on continuing education to keep their very specialized skills from becoming obsolete. Employees want more say, in what is really going on, in the company. Employees see things too be improved, changed, or streamlined in their department expecting increased customer satisfaction. Employees want improvement but not the responsibility of becoming accountable. The truth is that in many traditional companies, neither the executive nor the employees want real change. The majority prefer the status quo because it is more familiar and less risky. As a result growth companies can't find enough good people to work in their fast-paced, demanding environment and most employees are unwilling to learn new skills and new ways of working. Real structural change can be accomplished broadly and urgently in an organization only during a period of real crisis, bordering on business failure. Urgency works to eliminate the natural human resistance to change. If your company is not in a crisis state the pilot approach is recommended. The pilot approach introduces change into a small group in the company, a project team or division. Involve your best and most progressive customers, the ones that demand a high level of service and response from your company. Work out the difficult bugs and chaotic experimentation with this prototype group. Nurture the groups process give them visi

Highly Recommended!

This book is a fantastic way to get that extra "edge" and prepare yourself for a changing job market.Two sections are particularly outstanding reading:"Four Principles Driving the Work Revolution" should be in the hands of every job-seeker, hirer, and manager in business."Leveraging the New Entrepreneurial Climate" is worth the price of the book alone as an investment in anyone's future! It includes these terrific chapters: ...."For the Heroic: Strategies for Creating a Breakthrough Start-Up"...."For the Creative: Become an 'Intrapreneur' Within Your Company"...."For the Homebody: Turn Your Job or Function into a Subcontract Business"