Más sobre Oportunidades

Hoy estuve leyendo mas sobre el tema de las oportunidades. Encontre este capítulo del libro "New Rules for the New Econony" de Kevin Kelly, quien amablemente lo tiene completo en-linea para que lo compartamos con ell (y luego se lo compremos! :-) )

New Rules for the New Econony: Don't Solve Problems; Seek Opportunities
http://www.kk.org/newrules/newrules-10.html

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"The task for each worker in the industrial age was to discover how to do his job better: that's productivity. Frederick Taylor revolutionized industry by using his scientific method to optimize mechanical work. But in the network economy, where machines do most of the inhumane work of manufacturing, the question for each worker is not "How do I do this job right?" but "What is the right job to do?"

Answering this question is, of course, extremely hard to do. It's called an executive function. In the past, only the top 10% of the workforce was expected to make such decisions. Now, everyone, not just executives, must decide what is the right next thing to do.

In the coming era, doing the exactly right next thing is far more fruitful than doing the same thing better."

"Efficiencies are for robots....Opportunities, on the other hand, are for humans. Opportunities demand flexibility, exploration, guesswork, curiosity, and many other qualities humans excel at. By its recursive nature, a network breeds opportunities, and incidentally, jobs for humans.

"Opportunities and productivity work hand in hand much like the two-step process of variation and death in natural selection. The primary role that productivity plays in the network economy is to disperse technologies. A technical advance cannot leverage future opportunities if it is hoarded by a few. Increased productivity lowers the cost of acquisition of knowledge, techniques, or artifacts, allowing more people to have them."

"Needs are neither fixed nor absolute. Instead they are fluid and reflexive."

"Technology says, rank opportunities before efficiencies. For any individual, organization, or country the key decision is not how to raise productivity by doing the same better, but how to negotiate among the explosion of opportunities, and choose right things to do."