Newminimalists raft down a raging stream into their futures.
What an exciting time to be alive [see photo]. These are extraordinary times because we are about to return to what is natural and true about human life. We are about to reject the "sameness" of the past 50 years. Instead we are about to rejoice in the freedom of independence of thought, action, and belief.
For the past 30 years I have worked to reform, reframe, and reinvigorate the modern workplace [this is a key reason that I invented Newminimalism]. Too much of my life has been spent speculating about how this new workplace would look and function [see photo to get the basic idea of my dream workplace: it has a free-flowing stream of work surrounded by a natural and healthy environment].
Over the past 20 years I have butted heads with those who promote a version of the modern workplace that is more and more the same as the one in the next building and the one done the back lane. The reason this workplace model of "sameness" has prevailed is because "the collective" has dominated, bullied, or ostracised the "independent individual". However. The good news is that the Coronavirus has finally broken the tormenting spell of "the collective" on our working lives.
We are entering a period when the focus is back on the "talented individual" not on the "consensual collective". It has been this "consensual collective" who have put the emphasis on quantity not quality, on workers not customers, on compliance not innovation, on "mob mentality" not "cooperative brilliance", and so on and so on.
I have been an "angry ant" over the past 20 years as I tried to get my clients to rebel against "sameness" practices that have been forced upon all those employees who place a much higher value on retaining their job than on doing great work. Ugh!
I will present more on my views about possible workplace changes in future posts......
But. For now here is a special treat for you. I urge everyone to become a fan of Foxes and Fossils one of the most talented, yet unassuming, groups of our times. This offering from this magical band is a cover version of the Crosby, Stills, and Nash song titled "Helplessly hoping". I hope that my loyal readers will enjoy this particular song and soon become fans [like me] of Foxes and Friends.
Richard
Newminimalists are emerging as the age of tyranny [and the winter of discontent it has produced] is fading to reveal an unexpected dawning of freedom and expansion in 2021.
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