{"id":765,"date":"2007-07-10T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/knowledge-worke\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T08:17:00","slug":"knowledge-worke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/knowledge-worke\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Worker Shortage Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who know and read me, have heard my views on the coming shortage of skilled workers.&nbsp; The demographics (baby-boomers) don&#8217;t lie, as well as the different mind-set that younger workers bring to the table.<\/p>\n<p>Penelope Trunk (author and columnist) brings us a great <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.penelopetrunk.com\/2007\/07\/08\/in-todays-workplace-young-job-seekers-hold-the-advantage\/\">post<\/a> on how younger workers will have an advantage in the coming years.&nbsp; I would go one-step further and say young thinking workers.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think are the barriers for employers in managing and leading in this new environment?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my list of barriers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today&#8217;s managers and leaders don&#8217;t read.&nbsp; Consequently, they won&#8217;t take the time to read people either. <\/li>\n<li>Habit. <\/li>\n<li>Too fixated on quarterly numbers at the expense of people. <\/li>\n<li>Arrogance. <\/li>\n<li>Fear! <\/li>\n<li>No reliable and authentic voice to help them navigate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who know and read me, have heard my views on the coming shortage of skilled workers.&nbsp; The demographics (baby-boomers) don&#8217;t lie, as well as the different mind-set that younger workers bring to the table. Penelope Trunk (author and columnist) brings us a great post on how younger workers will have an advantage in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}