Collective(s) Future of Work Briefing No.03 — People & Transformation

Future of Work: A Four-Part Series

Cognitive psychology loves a good dissonance, the perception of contradictory information, in which discomfort brews. But if the past year has taught us anything, it’s that transitions are multifaceted and layered, offering us so much more than base confusion. Among the four cornerstones of this series—Business, Culture and Belonging, The Place of Work, People and Transformation, and Digital strategy—the topic of transformation is most uniquely positioned to circumference and seize the moment we’re currently in, stepping out of a year of COVID-19 and onto a new field, seemingly unchanged, but not yet mapped. In its essence, transformation is both a societal and an individual process, providing a distinctive opportunity to ponder the merging of private and public, personal and collective.

This Briefing functions as the third of four perspective pieces that comprise the Future of Work Collective, weighing in on the concept of “work” from differing angles. Distilling and framing insights drawn from live sessions and fireside chats throughout 2021, we present a thought-provoking series of questions, contemplations, talking points, cogitations, and best practices for how we can make the most of this once-in-a-century opportunity.