Intuition forms over time. When McKinsey began publishing the Quarterly, in 1964, a new management environment was just beginning to take shape. On April 7 of that year, IBM announced the System/360 mainframe, a product with breakthrough flexibility and capability. Then on October 10, the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the first in history to be telecast via satellite around the planet, underscored Japan’s growing economic strength. Finally, on December 31, the last new member of the baby-boom generation was born.
Via The Learning Factor
What’s the future of strategy setting, decision making, and management? We examine how the collision of rapid emerging-markets growth, technological disruption, and widespread aging is upending long-held assumptions.
Here is an article with massive implications for future workplaces and the people who will be employed there. In our schools today we will have to consider the implications for our students. The education we provide would depend on flexible technological formats, developing inter-personal skills, enriching creativity, building clarity into ethical frameworks and so on. Lots to think about.