Met het veranderen der tijden veranderen de mensen, en dan zijn er natuurlijk niet-veranderende-mensen die de wel-veranderende-mensen in nieuwe hokjes en vakjes willen plaatsen. Het plaatsen in hokjes en vakjes hoeft niet perse negatief te zijn. Het kan ‘de dinosauriërs van nu’ helpen om tot het inzicht te komen dat er echt iets aan het veranderen is, en wat daarvan zoal de gevolgen zijn. Een van de gevolgen van de verandering is het fenomeen knowmads, en dit is hun ‘vakje’:
“… knowmads are extensions of Peter Drucker’s knowledge workers concept, embracing the convergence of accelerating technological change and globalization. In particular, the use of advanced information and communications technologies enable knowmads to work beyond pre-19th century notions of nation states, corporate identity, and community identity.
For some, knowmadism is realized through leveraging social media (i.e., Twitter or blogs) that add an additional layer of social and/or professional activities that defy the confinement to particular geographies and operational rules they may have been restricted to as recently as 10 years ago. For others, knowmads engage in work that is transnational, transcultural, and post-organizational in scope. And, a few select others may develop and apply such individual expertise that their work in new context creation enables them to be considered postnational and postcultural actors in their own right.
Knowmads are valued for the personal knowledge that they possess, and this knowledge gives them a competitive advantage. Knowmads are also responsible for designing their own futures. This represents a massive shift from agricul- tural, industrial, and information-based work in which our relationships and responsibilities were static and clearly defined by others.
In the past, we applied for jobs.
Now we are asked to design our work.
By 2020, we project 45% of the Western workforce will be knowmadic. Moreover, this number will grow. That is, the jobs we take on and the ways in which we relate with each other will require less specificity about task and place. Knowmads can instantly reconfigure and recontextualize their work environ- ments, and advances in mobility afforded by technological development leads to the continuous creation of new opportunities. A knowmad is only employed on a job as long as he or she can add value to an organization. If not, it’s time to move on to the next gig…”
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