Day: February 21, 2010

Mass Customization may seem like an oxymoron. When you think of something as individualistic as career choices, it begs the question how far such a thing is possible. Organizations have long defined successful careers to represent a ladder. Ladders were for lads and too bad if the ladies chose to opt out of it. With the changing demographics, all that is changing at a reasonable pace. The Wall Street Journal bestseller Mass Career Customization by Cathleen Benko and Anne Weisberg point out that the demand and supply gap will force corporations to explore new ways of defining careers which will look less and less like the ladder people have used to scale the organizational pyramid. Individuals are using lattices to move to different directions and vary the pace and nature of their assignments while still remaining valuable contributors to the workforce. (more…)