How do I relate to Generation Flux? How will it affect my career success?
I found
this article extremely interesting and even empowering. As sometimes we live
our lives wasting time trying to plan things 5 years ahead, and when our plans wouldn’t
work out we get upset.. But probably the author is right and we have just to accept
the Chaos theory, that suggests that sometimes it’s useless to predict things..
What’s important is to identify when the things are chaotic and when they are
not.
One of the participants
of the interview who used to work as a researcher on weather patterns says: There
are some times, when you can predict weather well for the next 15 days. Other
times, you can only really forecast a couple of days. Sometimes you can't
predict the next two hours. According to the author of the article, the
business climate is a lot like the weather. And we have entered a
next-two-hours era.
The speed
of change in our economy and our culture is getting faster, fueled by global implementation
of social media, mobile, and other new technologies, and our visibility about
the future is declining. It is getting real hard to predict what will happen
next. When we increase speed it is logic
that we have less time to think what is waiting for us ahead, but we should be
fast in our reaction in respond to the change and be skillful ‘drivers’.
Reading
this article was for me like reading about my personal and career experiences
and I have been always longing for the change and growth on my way. The article
says that not everyone will enter the GenFlux, but those who enter should learn
how to be successful. And it is hard as we have been always taught ‘a liner’ way
to live our lives: school, university, work, work, work, staying at the single
industry, and then retire. GenFlux is
all the opposite of it. They are individuals who crave novelty constantly;
therefore the most important here is the ability to acquire new skills.
“Every time I update my resume, I see the path
that I didn't know would be.”
"I'm a collection of many things. I'm not
one thing."
What
defines GenFlux is a state of mind that embraces instability, which not only tolerates
it, but enjoys it, changing careers and business models. The important thing is
not to be afraid of the change and of the future, and to welcome each change
like a new possibility, not a loss. That is the way I look at my future carrier,
too. If one thing doesn’t work out for me I won’t dwell on it, I will change
it, find something else and fast. Another attitude that I have adopted already
but will have to remember in the future, that in order to be successful in our
fast-changing society, I will have to constantly be learning new things, as I
would have to be well-informed about what is happening around, be curious, in
order to stay on the edge and in-sync with the fast-changing business evolution.
For the
companies this fast change in business means they would need to be adoptable to
change, flexible, fast-moving, prioritize the team building and working in
groups for faster pace. If we learn something new and stop, we would be hit by
the next train of innovation. The reason the Facebook is so successful is
because it is changing constantly. It is also imperative to be future-focused. If
ambiguity is high and adaptability is required, then you simply can't afford to
be sentimental about the past, as past mistakes make us vulnerable.
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