The Failure Gym

Disruptions and distractions become the two-edged sword of change. Companies and institutions that have been the bastions of culture, society, and civilization are drowning in the flood of technology. Workers that have learned skills and built capacities to last a life find it perplexing, confusing, and frightening that job requirements have moved away from their strengths. Employers in every sector are grappling with new business models filled with technologies, strategies, and fallacies that challenge the comfort of traditions.   The other edge of the sword, however, has opened a vista filled with opportunity. Change always comes with a bit of pain. Most resist it because it hurts too much to make the change. That reticence is maintained until it hurts less to change than it does to remain the same. It turns out that humans have not changed that much over their existence.