Increasing Productivity in the 21st Century

A paradox has emerged in this new millennium. People have enhanced quality of life, but at the same time they are adding to their stress levels by taking on more than they have resources to handle. A major factor in the mounting stress level is that the actual nature of our jobs has changed much more dramatically and rapidly than have our training for and our ability to deal with work. In just the last half of the twentieth century, what constituted work in the industrialized world was transformed from assembly line, makeet and move it kinds of activity to what the late peter drucker so aptly termed knowledge work.