The limits between our personal lives and our professional lives seem to be progressively dissolving. Or is it just me and the world I connect with?
More and more people dress to work as they would to spend the day at home in front of the t.v. Flexible schedules and long traffic jams are pushing us to work from home and set up domestic affairs close to the office. You may find yourself phoning from work to solve a nanny crisis, or emailing late at night from home to make a work related deadline. And in this world of dissolving limits, where your boss might become your husband, or your ex-wife may turn into a client, growing as a person and developing as an executive are more intertwined than ever.
It used to be bad manners to talk about clients’ personal lives when discussing their conflict management skills. Not anymore. Students may readily discuss a problem with a girl friend when you teach them about trust issues in the work place. And it’s just right for them. Because through that immediate, heart renching problem, they learned exactly what I was talking about.
As the rest of our historic barriers in geography, culture, language and social class, dissolve, so too do the limits between the different compartments of our lives. Let’s look forward to how much more we can learn about ourselves, about business and about life. And let the new business opportunities and models commence. The world economy sure needs innovative ideas!
