Management does not have a deep sense of time or history, so we will continue to re-learn age-old behaviour, work, and organisation lessons as we build the new machine. However, we can be sure that people will always be the critical and essential element of work and organisation. 

The word disruption is losing all meaning through indiscriminate overuse. This is particularly true for the phrase ‘digital disruption’. It is also becoming true for the phrase ‘future of work’, which maps out disruptive forces impacting the workforce and organisation.

A lot is being written about the future of work. Not a lot of it is interesting or challenging. It should be, but it’s not.

As with all new technology, the underlying concern is: do we know what we are losing?