Haya Kivilis-Ofek asked for info on future occupations....
I provided references on the following 7 articles:
Gordon Gregory
Gregory Associates
Overland Park, Kansas
www.gregoryassociates.com
Journal of Business Strategy, July-August 1997 v18 n4 p59(5)
Future strategy. (books on planning the business for the future) Bristol
Voss.
Abstract: A new set of books adopts a different approach to how businesses
could prepare for the future. While most business authors tend to agree that
corporations must always be in a state of preparedness for change, these
books suggest that a business must first determine what that change will be.
This will protect the business from getting too shocked from changes that it
will be unable to respond positively. To go a step further,
'Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation,' 'Trends 2000: How to Prepare
for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century,' '2025: Scenarios of US
and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology' and 'Rethinking the
Future: Rethinking Business, Principles, Competition, Control & Complexity,
Leadership, Markets and the World'discuss how to divine what the corporate
future has in store for one's corporation.
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Forbes, Dec 28, 1998 p22(1)
2039: On My Mind. (business predictions for the year 2039) Dolly Setton.
"We asked top executives to peer way into the future--say 40
years--and tell us what they think their businesses will be like. "
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Corporate Seers, by William M. Bulkeley, Wall Street Journal, Nov 16, 1998
(Who knows better what the future holds than those who make a living thinking
about it?)
"They get paid to think about the future. While most corporate workers are
lucky if they can think about next week, there are tohers whose job is to
keep and eye on where technology is taking the world. Their views vary
widely, as do their responsbibilities, but their roles are the same: to open
minds"
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Nation's Business, Feb 1999 v87 i2 p11(1)
The Shape Of Things To Come Begins To Take Shape. (coming trends in business
management)(Brief Article) Thomas Love.
"Clues to what the 21st-century workplace will look like are beginning to
appear, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago-based
international outplacement company Applying these imminent trends to your
business situation might help you get a leg up on your competition in the new
millennium"
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The Futurist, June-July 1998 v32 n5 p19(6)
The 10 new rules for strategizing your career. (includes related articles on
extinct
occupations and the role of managers) Richard L.
Knowdell.
Abstract: Globalization necessitates increased interaction with different
cultures, expanded skills and technological knowhow. The employee of the
future has to equip himself with the right communication skills, the ability
to effortlessly shift from one task to another, and new and better
capacities.
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Business Horizons, Nov-Dec 1993 v36 n6 p30(5)
The nature of work in the twenty-first century: certain uncertainties.
Arthur B. Shostak.
Brief Summary: Five attributes of future work conditions will have a
significant affect on society: the declining numbers of jobs, the policy
response to a curtailed work force, the type of jobs available after 2000,
the future of labor unions, and the emergence of highly intelligent machines.
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Management Review, Sept 1993 v82 n9 p33(3)
Back to the future of work. (profiles of three professionals reveal what
work will be
like in the future) Oren Harari.
Abstract: Work in the future will be proactive, require personal
responsibility, and entail long hours. Profiles of three professionals
provide an overview of how work will be structured in the future. The article
also contains a list of additional trends that will affect how work is done
in the future.