#Paradigm shift def manual#

And society is totally unprepared for it.” For the first time they will have to manage themselves. For the first time – literally – substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. Peter Drucker – one of the greatest management thinkers, puts it this way: “In a few hundred years, when the history of our time is written from a long-term perspective, likely, the most important events those historians will see is not technology and not the Internet. The evolution and the CHALLENGE – each civilization age introduces a new paradigm.This is relevant to being civically engaged because it is essentially related to the cause you are committed to and it expands the objective view one has on certain issues. By reading this article a trainer can firstly reflect on his/her paradigm, and also the reflective questions will help them work with other learners/young people. In this article the Whole Person Paradigm, the human needs, the human intelligences and their highest manifestations are explained.

Covey introduces the Whole Person Paradigm that embodies all human elements that we need to pay attention to, awaken, and consciously develop.

And this approach suffocates people’s highest talents and motivation and creates low-trust relationships. When you apply the “thing” mindset to people from the Industrial Age it does not recognize their true worth and creative potential. He identifies the problem as a bad management with applying the Industrial Age control model, in a world that now is in, what he calls it, the “Knowledge Workers Age”

#Paradigm shift def manual#

In the first part of his book he argues that many of our “modern” management practices come from the Industrial Age management tactics, that are mainly based on working with manual workers and treating them as “things”. This article is extracted from Stephen Covey’s book the 8 th Habit.