{"id":4775,"date":"2012-08-28T14:04:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2012-08-28T14:04:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T20:04:25","slug":"a-manifesto-for-the-new-rules-on-human-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4775","title":{"rendered":"A manifesto for the new rules on human capital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Peters:<\/a><\/p>\n

I recently spoke at the World Strategy Forum event in Seoul, where the theme was \u201cThe new rules: reframing capitalism\u201d. Predictably, the discussion focused on global financial infrastructure. But, as one of the few non-economist speakers, I instead argued that employment\/unemployment is even more affected by the changing nature of work \u2013 and the wildly accelerating effectiveness of technology, which is encroaching on activities that employ tens of millions of people, especially in the developed world.<\/p>\n

This is, I believe, in the mid to long term, both the number one problem and the number one opportunity for businesses and wider society. But the specifics of what follows were triggered by the debate at the event and were eventually encapsulated in what I grandly call: \u201cA human capital development manifesto at the enterprise and national government level\u201d.<\/p>\n