Only the beginning of the 'Big Shift'.

• Author: Hagel, John, III
• Position: Brief article

From The Power of Pull by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison. Copyright 2010 by Deloitte Development LLC. Published by Basic Books (www.basicbooks.com).

THE WORLD IS TRANSFORMING around you. The truth is, the things you did to get there will no longer work to keep you there. Yet many of us--especially those who have achieved success--tend to believe that the approaches we used in the past will continue to work in the future. We hold onto assumptions about the path to success that we developed along the way, often without bothering to make them explicit or testing to see if they still hold true. In fact, things are radically different from the way they used to be. We no longer live in the industrial economy of the 1950s, or even that of the 1970s. And the techniques we used to master those worlds are no longer effective.

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At a certain level, most of us already know this deep down. We don't search for jobs the way we used to. We don't look for information in the old ways...