(Un)sustainable Ways of Working

In almost every organisation I work managers and staff are struggling with and worrying about finding and keeping good people, work overload, increasing demand, work-life (im)balance...

I've seen the labour market forecasts showing the increasing gap between demand and supply....

I recently heard Peter Sheahan (the Gen Y guy) say, 'The war for talent is over. Talent won'...

And I've listened as committed employees & managers tell how their organisation is resourcing it's operations from their lives, their health!

And I'm thinking:

This is frightening, crazy, immoral... Our ways of managing, leading and working are simply unsustainable...  all these staffing problems, work-life balance problems are symptoms THEY ARE NOT THE PROBLEM! 

The problem...I'm thinking... is that all our current mind-sets and models of work, management and leadership, come from, and were suited to, the industrial age... 

We're now way past that into the new age or era of knowledge, service... the digital or e or i era... 

and we need new models... 

...don't we?