tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686742259258701545.post3022229433036018032..comments2024-03-28T09:29:23.550+00:00Comments on Strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) Blog: TRU London: Why I told Kevin Wheeler he was talking rubbishJon Inghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05553537200734270043noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686742259258701545.post-23786765948688804542011-03-07T18:04:20.268+00:002011-03-07T18:04:20.268+00:00Well said! And very much what I was trying to say...Well said! And very much what I was trying to say as well - that we need to be aware of the trends, but not to get too carried away with where they may end - but I think you express it much better.<br /><br />As for the cult of personality, I can't think who you might mean! (well, maybe I can).Jon Inghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05553537200734270043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686742259258701545.post-9653782283972239572011-03-07T16:55:20.591+00:002011-03-07T16:55:20.591+00:00Hi John I was in the same session and unfortunatel...Hi John I was in the same session and unfortunately the thing that was very clear to me was that Kevin was telling the room about his vision of utiopia and not grounding it in reality. <br />The statement that "big business will be shrinking over the next 5 years and some of the largest companies around right now will decrease by about half their size" was frankly complete rubbish.<br />The assertion that small businesses owned and managed by collectives would be more powerful than big companies was ridiculous and to suggest the Heroin trade in Afghanistan showed the future of the work model was so far beyond the pale I wondered if he had actually been trying their product. There is a reason why there is a networked economy in that region and it has nothing to do with the future of work and everything to do with politics and religion, I did wonder if he’d based that entire part of his session on that month’s National Geographic which ran an article about the same subject.<br /><br />The core argument that people will work more flexibly, have more opportunity to build and manage their own projects and a lot of the other ideas discussed were absolutely true. The slightly crazy ideas being thrown around and being backed by several people who should know better were a little bit of a symptom of the "cooler" tracks at Tru. Unfortunately there were several tracks marked more by people generating the cult of personality around them than actually offering something of value.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com