A New Workplace Paradigm

A New Workplace Paradigm Back in the 1990s Stephen Covey’s seminal work The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People took a radical view on personal effectiveness, leadership and responsibility and changed the lives of millions of people.In the first chapter he demonstrated the power of Thomas Kuhn’s scientific concept of a “paradigm shift” by applying to behavior change. The idea was to show how you and I are conditioned by our experiences and in order to get unstuck and change our behavior, we need to see the world in a fundamentally different way.He recalled an exercise done by a college professor. He divided a group of students into 2 groups and showed each group a different picture and then asked them whether they saw an old woman or a young woman when he put up this picture:evalDo the exercise for yourself and you’ll notice that it’s simultaneously challenging to see the other view and remarkably powerful and impactful when you do!As a young woman I made a decision to follow my then boy frie nd to live abroad. That choice changed my life in a way I could never have imagined. The world I knew was no longer available to me and I needed to change in order to adapt and thrive.Think about a big change in your life and how the internal shift may have been driven by the awareness of a gap between your internal map and the reality of the territory!The global workplace is experiencing a revolution and you and I are in the middle of it. How do we not only adapt to it but also lead and contribute?This post aims at initiating a conversation to identify concrete, practical ways for you and me to stay effective and productive working in the eye of the storm.How can you and I produce a future we can be proud of?evalLet’s take the following scenario.87% of the people surveyed by the Change Anything Labs And as a result, a minimum of 2 bad things happen unless something changes â€" first, you continue to lose opportunities If you’re interested in becoming part of the revolution in t he workplace and not a victim of it, what is one action you can begin to take today that will move you closer to being assessed by others as a valuable contributor to your own success, the success of those you work with, and the success of your organization?