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The knowledge worker (the executive in Drucker’s quote) goes after individual productivity; the web worker after group-based, collaborative, wisdom-of-crowds productivity.
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this great little ladder graphic to explain the distribution of participation by dividing the world into creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators and inactives:
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Despite popular theories posed in research papers and popular literature, early man was not an aggressive killer, ..”Our intelligence, cooperation and many other features we have as modern humans developed from our attempts to out-smart the predator,”
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Generations last the length of time of one phase of life–the same length of time as a turning. Like turnings, generations also come in four different archetypes, defined in “The Fourth Turning” as Prophet, Nomad, Hero and Artist.
Strauss and Howe is a really interesting piece. ‘Millennials Rising’ strikes a chord with comment my wife (GenX’r) made about a month ago regarding teens today just being interested in how their CV reads and why none of them like to be visibly/publicly passionate about personal likes/dislikes. I think the British media are feeling it too, there was an article in the Sunday Times colour magazine that caught the spirit of Strauss and Howe about a week ago too.