About the Book
Are you Future-Ready
Greg Hutchins has tackled an extremely important topic, the future of work, in his book Working It: Disruption Rules. It is a provocative book. It is a must read for Millennials and Generation Z members.
The Future of Work impacts people on a daily basis since it deals with our human needs, wants, and expectations. The Future of Work is now! So, we'd say that the Future of Work is important and relevant to the vast majority of people worldwide.
So, what's important about the Future of Work? McKinsey, the global consulting firm, estimates that between the present and 2030, 75 to 375 million workers need to switch jobs that will require new skills and new education just due to automation and tech disruption:
"In terms of magnitude, it's akin to coping with the large-scale shift from agricultural work to manufacturing that occurred in the early 20th century in North America and Europe, and more recently in China. But in terms of who must find new jobs, we are moving into uncharted territory. Those earlier workforce transformations took place over many decades, allowing older workers to retire and new entrants to the workforce to transition to the growing industries. But the speed of change today is potentially faster. The task confronting every economy, particularly advanced economies, will likely be to retrain and redeploy tens of millions of midcareer, middle-age workers."
Goldman Sachs estimates: "1/3 of the workforce will transfer to new occupations over the next five years".
7P's Framework
A full treatment of work, careers, and jobs is beyond the scope of this book and frankly beyond my abilities. Working It Disruption Rules offers a unique structure, framework, and lens for your Future of Work.
Expressed another way, Working It offers a structure for understanding and a framework for looking at your work, career, and job. Working It is not the total answer. Hopefully, it offers glimpses of what's occurring around you whether you work for someone or for yourself or are exploring options.
One of the powerful analytical tools in management theory is the systems approach that explains complex relationships in simple terms. Working It: Disruption Rules presents a systems approach to work. Elements of a system can be parts of a machine, actors in a play, or people at work.
In this book, our 7P work system, framework, or architecture consists of Paradigms, People, Principles, Practices, Products, Processes, and Projects(R).
About the Author :
Greg Hutchins PE CERM is the founder of: + 800Compete.com. + WorkingIt.com. + CERMAcademy.com. + QualityPlusEngineering.com, and other startups. + CERMAcademy.com. Greg Hutchins is the risk evangelist who coined the expression Future of Quality: Risk(R). He is the founder of Certified Enterprise Risk Manager Academy(R). He can be contacted at GregH@europa.com or 503.233.1012. Greg is the founder of Working It Academy and the author of Working It: Disruption Rules. Q+E is the designer and developer of Certified Enterprise Risk Manager(R) (CERM), CERM Cyber(TM) certificate, and best-selling ISO and ERM books. Q+E has deep domain expertise in ISO 31000, ISO 27001, and NIST 800's. Q+E designed CERM based on its security IP including Critical Infrastructure Protection: Forensics, Assurance, Analytics(R); Value Added Auditing(TM); Certified Enterprise Risk Manager(R); Future of Quality: Risk(R); CERM: Risk Based, Problem Solving Risk Based, Decision Making(R); etc. Q+E has been certified by the Department of Homeland Security for Critical Infrastructure Protection: Forensics, Assurance, Analytics(R). Q+E has conducted the following Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) risk assessments: + Analytical. Q+E engineers and scientists conduct analytical analyses following Q+E protocols evaluating business continuity, cyber security, and physical security systems against IEEE, NFPA, ISA, PMI, ISO, NIST, COSO, NERC, DIACAP, FISMA, and ASIS standards. + Assurance. Q+E offers the client three levels of assurance: + Compliance. Q+E conducts a compliance audit against appropriate standards and guidance. + Assurance with opinion. Q+E issues an opinion based on the results of a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) audit or ERM controls assessment. + Assurance with insurance coverage. Q+E conducts an audit and provides the requisite level of due diligence for the auditee to be covered. + Forensics. Q+E provides the above levels of assurance as well as supplies a letter to the regulatory authority averring compliance that criteria have been met. Our ISO background includes: Was lead trainer and consultant for first US based certification body in 1987 (AGA Laboratories). Was member of US TAG in 1987 - developer of ISO 9001 Consulted and trained FAA in risk-based auditing, certification, etc.
Review :
Best book on the changing workplace. One of our foremost experts on quality systems and risk, Greg Hutchins has for decades applied his 7P's model (Paradigms, People, Principles, Practices, Products, Processes, and Projects) to the fracturing workplace in editions of Working It. The latest, 2020 Future of Work, defines the causes and effects of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) affecting the very nature of work. The book appears at a critical moment when economic and technological changes dominate the press in alarming headlines. Hutchins has thoroughly reviewed the literature, made sense out of trends, and offered practical advice for anyone coping with the forces of disruption. Written in a lively and personal style, this is the best single source for information, orientation, and advice on work in the 21st Century.
Hank Lindborg, Ph.D. - U/W Professor
Thought provoking and universally relevant. This book will likely shake up your world view so that you'll never look at the nature of work in quite the same way again. That's a good thing! No one can ever know the future but the trends that Greg Hutchins discusses in this work, carried forward to their logical conclusions, mean that all of us need to re-imagine our space in the working spaces of tomorrow. To do so we must understand volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA), risk, the rapid evolution of the gig economy, our personal brand equity, and what it means to be an entrepreneur at all levels of employment. And that's just scratching the surface of the information on the future of work to be gleaned from this example-rich and easy-reading book. Highly recommended for anyone seeking answers to questions and questioning those answers in turn.
Mike Richman - Quality Digest Publisher (former)
A must read. Greg Hutchins has tackled an extremely important topic, the future nature of work, in his book "Working It: Disruption Rules. It is a proactive book. It is a must read for Millennials and Generation Z members.
James J. Kline PhD. - Economist and writer
Best book I have read about the future of work. . Greg has done the working people a big favor in writing the book by giving them a realistic look into the future regarding their job skills relevancy. The descriptions and explanations presented are clear and easy to understand. He explains the current work status and how it will change in the future . He explains what the changing work force will look like in the future and how the new green deal will effect the work place. This is a book parents ought give to their children in high school to help them decide what jobs will be available and what skills will be required to get a good paying job in the future. I highly recommend this book to young and older people to prepare for the future of work.
John Ayers - Engineer, Project Management guru, Author
