The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace
Gyan Nagpal
Top 10 Best Quotes
“in a digitally enabled world, all businesses are global”
“The relationship between humans and machines is better imagined as a partnership with machines employed to do work too repetitive or rudimentary for human intelligence, too dangerous for human well-being or too complex for human time. Human capability, on the other hand, has always excelled at fashioning such machines, creating meaning from the unfamiliar and in imaginative pursuits. In such an arrangement, technology does replace human effort, but only in areas where human effort is sub-optimal.”
“when the case for reorganization isn’t appreciable and well-accepted, the psychological cost paid by the continuing many, could easily dwarf the economic costs saved through the departing few”
“we are entering an age where speed, flexibility, innovation and execution matter much more than decades-old qualifications or antiquated experiences dressing up a lengthy resume.”
“today some of the smartest and most productive talent chooses to give up the rigid strictures of full-time employment in favor of the freedom a project or a gig-based lifestyle affords them”
“remember that the most talented employees don’t turn up just for a salary or to fulfill a routine need. They turn up bright-eyed because they have an idea in play”
“it isn’t just talent which is mobile today, the work itself is highly mobile too.”
“in a world more networked and connected than ever, your talent increasingly doesn’t carry an employee ID.”
“if we agree that in the future, every organization is essentially a digital organization—enabled through digital technologies, engaging customers on digital platforms and using online applications to drive sales, engagement or compliance—then it isn’t just the seamlessness of outcomes, but equally the methodology employed to deliver those outcomes which must be consistent across a large organization”
“artificial intelligence is forcing human endeavor away from simple, algorithmic and repetitive tasks towards solving problems and incubating new ideas. It is the human mind, as opposed to the human body, which has been an underutilized resource for far too long”
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