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In this extraordinarily difficult time for our planet and country the winds of change that blow for the near future are as potentially revolutionary as they are unpredictable. In my last post on some of the consequences that have fallen as a result of sudden quarantine induced shift of many knowledge workers to working from home, I explained how the necessity of dedicated work from home practices by many companies will reveal two things, first, companies will realize that they get a lot more work out of their workers. I stated this based on much earlier analysis that I conducted as part of my invention of the action oriented workflow paradigm nearly 20 years ago. Second, the office will be seen for  the excessive cost center that it is, it will see continued shifting to open plan and generalized usage with the end of cubicle farms and the available space will be drastically reduced as rental of floors in down town city centers is absurdly expensive. Offices will remain for execu...

The some times serendipitous finger of chaos Often it takes massive shocks to the collective social, economic and even geographic contexts of our living ecosystem for slowly smoldering truths to erupt as self evident. This was true with the emergence of the Nazi party from the crucible of a humiliated Germany post World War I coupled with depression era inflation and economic misery of the late 20's and early 30's. This was true of the cataclysm of pathogen invasion that attended the crossing of species from the Asian continental mass to the American mass during the last inter-glacial and is true today with the sudden appearance of a global pandemic in city centers all of the world after being decanted from the full bottle of natures bounty of pathogens through human action. The echoes of this black swan event as some call these unforeseen, unexpected and uncertain in scope shocks will reverberate in lives in a myriad of ways. Some immediately seen to be positive even a...