Productivity and collaboration
Collaboration and productivity have always been important. However, the future of work is reshaping collaboration and taking productivity to another level, thanks to the accelerated pace of digital transformation. A combination of technology and remote work will make this shift as significant as the mechanization of agriculture and manufacturing.
As the world changes, new and transformed professions arise. We are now at a point where it is very challenging for people and organizations to make sense of the current situation because the pandemic has turned our world upside-down. Meanwhile, we need awareness that "what brought us here won't get us there," to paraphrase Marshall Goldsmith.
Figure 16.1 shows a centralized organization versus a distributed organization. Bureaucracy and hierarchy were important in the past because there were no technologies for collaboration and communication to enable distributed organizations:
