In this potential new series (i.e. I’m hoping to post more “ridiculous work habits” in the future), we’re exploring one of the many absurd things we often do at work. Today’s topic is how we think about “experience” on the job.
In our companies, we continue to act as though people are interchangeable — like we can give a set of identical tasks two two different people and they will do them in the same manner. This is incredibly destructive, and here’s why…
The industrial way of building an organization carries some hidden baggage with it, and we won’t really be able to function as cooperatively or creatively as we should in the new economy until we discard the old structure. This is how we got here… and how we start getting out.