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Digital Culture Shock
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What do you do when everything that is familiar….
Turns upside down…
and then vanishes!?
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Has change just “snuck up” on you?
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Does this pattern look familiar – and make you wonder what happened?
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Before the digital storm… • In the pre-digital world, the rules were generally known, and
people knew how things worked (even if they didn’t like the set-up much).
• There was a hierarchy – and little questioning of elders or bosses. • If you played the game, you would rise up the ladder over time. • Rarely did anyone beyond your friends and family asked for your
opinion (and offering it freely often got you into trouble!)
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The old rules…
• Study hard, go to college once
• Get a job for life in the same industry
• Defer to authority
• Respect your elders because…well, because they are older
• Keep your head down – don’t rock the boat
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no longer apply!
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The old certainties are fading or already gone You can either….
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ADAPT
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FALL BEHIND
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It’s a whole new world….full of wonders…
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…and dangers….
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There is no map to this place - and it can be turbulent…
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but here are some pointers…
The skill set, attitudes and mindset needed is different….
• Any standardized knowledge can be automated – it is losing (relative) value.
• The world is more open; huge opportunities, but also huge competition.
• If your industry only exists due to protection, or distance, your days are numbered.
Original knowledge now has a premium – for a short time!
• Value now comes from creating new content; from creating links between different fields of human endeavor.
• Anything which can assist in systematizing the spread of information is rapidly adopted.
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You have some useful tools…
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to help you find your way…
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Your existing skills
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Your ideas about who’s in charge…
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Your view of the way the world works…
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Your ways of learning
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And your attitude….
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What are the new rules?
• Be proactive – you are on your own
• Education is still important, but needs to be ongoing
• Learn how to learn, and how to fail faster
• Project work is becoming the new norm
• Respect is earned by achievement, not just assumed.
• Challenge assumptions
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So, how do I adapt? • Where there are problems, there are opportunities.
• Learn about the changes; read books and websites, attend seminars.
• Be curious: think about which industries your current job relies upon, and what changes they are facing. Then, look at your industry’s customers: what do they need from you?
• If it has changed, is your firm (and are you, personally) meeting those needs effectively?
• Have you got the skill set to fix the problems? If not, how do you develop (or find) those skills?
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To recap… • Yesterday’s jobs and rules are not coming back
• The value of many products and services is high for a shorter period – before becoming commoditized.
• Everything is becoming linked and networked, and as a result, everything moves faster.
• Earning potential at both industry and individual level is now shaped by the ability to find, develop, and sell solutions to problems.
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Take courage: we have been here before...
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The Industrial Revolution
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But we are human beings – the most adaptive species ever known – so we
worked together…
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Thought things through…
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And improved them over time…
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Until the problem we had suffered from….
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…was overcome!
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