Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field

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The Most Important Quality
Change Is Faster and Faster

Your Answers Have Changed
Your situation is the same. In many areas of your life, your answers have changed. What was true and valid a year ago is either partially or totally obsolete today. Your cherished ideas from a year or two ago, or even a month ago, are no longer valid or relevant in the turbulent markets of today.
In technology, for example, they say that a product is already obsolete when it first hits the shelves. By the time it comes to the market, it is already being replaced either by the company that developed it or by its competitors. The shelf life of technology is shorter and shorter. It is the same with information and competition. The speed at which they are changing is almost breathtaking.
The Most Important Quality
In 1995, the Menninger Institute of New York conducted a study to determine the most important quality or qualities that would be necessary for business success in the twenty-first century. It finally concluded that the most important quality required for success would be “flexibility.”
It would be the ability to rapidly react and respond to the accelerating rate of change in all areas. The development of this attitude of flexibility,
accepting that the answers have changed would give an individual or an organization a tremendous advantage over more rigid and inflexible competitors.
Change Is Faster and Faster
We are living in the fastest-changing, most disruptive, and most turbulent period in all of human history, except for tomorrow and next week and next year.
Right up to the middle of the twentieth century, it was quite common fora person to come out of school, join a company, start a job, and stay therefor life.
Today, as many as 40 percent of adults are what are called contingency workers—freelancers who go from job to job throughout their working

lives as independent contractors. Many of them will never work fora company, except temporarily.

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