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Your job is dying. All the 11th-hour, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of restructuring and “empowerment” wont save it. Its doomed because the economy of the emerging millennium has no room for it. Your only hope is that you can hold off the inevitable until you retire --- a rather forlorn wish. Or you can start confronting the future today by preparing to obsolete your current work before it obsolete you --- and then reinventing it. 2★You may wonder what this drumroll is all about. Bear with me. One cannot talk about jobs without talking about the economy within which they are embedded. So let’s begin our discussion with a quote from the 1995 White Paper of the World Gold Council: 3★“Several factors are responsible for todays chaotic environment, but by far the most powerful is a shift in the fundamental nature of our economic system. We are moving from a production-based industrial economy to an information-based network economy. And, as a result, the principles that have governed both business and society for the past 200 years are becoming obsolete.” 4★??Absolutely true. We are moving from an economy where intangibles like speed, flexibility and imagination are more important predictors of business success than tangibles like mass, size and physical assets. Accordingly, hitherto sacred principles like volume, economies of scale, experience curves, mass production and mass marketing are becoming less and less useful if we’re interested in competitive edge. Rapid collaborative application of intelligence is where it’s at. 5★Some companies get it. Like Microsoft. Some argue that Microsoft’s new, slashing, aggressive moves into the world of Internet is due primarily to Bill Gates’ ego. In a word, that’s absurd. In 1990, Microsoft achieved a 38 percent quarterly sales boost by adding $90 million to its top line; in 1995, that same 38 percent standard required Microsoft to generate $800 million in new business. Today, the bar is raised even higher. Wheres the new business