What Seven Trends for the Future of Organizations Are Already Foreseeable Today?

Despite the upheavals of 2020, certain principles have remained the same – solid ground on which leaders can build winning, socially influential organizations:

• Organizational structures will become flatter and more geographically distributed. Read more here, here, and here.
• Organizations will continue to grow in agility, adaptability, becoming more innovative and “intrapreneurial.”
• Workforces will become more connected.
• Technology will continue to shift to the cloud.
• Leadership will become more gender diverse.
• Learning will become more democratized.
• Attracting and retaining workers will be achieved by telling stories and by making organizations appealing places to work.
• Purpose will be defined in terms beyond profits.

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The 14 Principles of the Future Organization

A futurist identifies the keys to building a winning organization in a constantly changing world.

Jacob Morgan Jacob Morgan

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