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Title:

Is the Planned Life Even Worth Living Anymore?

Your vote:
Yes No
Organizer:
Melissa Pierce, Life In Perpetual Beta
Description:
The belief that lives and businesses must be well planned into the future is crumbling as we continually adapt to new technologies and a global marketplace. Are the current business and educational systems obsolete? How one can personally adapt to the “new economy”? What’s hype, what’s real?
Questions
Answered:
  1. Why have the rules for business and education changed?
  2. Which rules have changed, which have stayed the same?
  3. Are current business and educational models obselete?
  4. How can one adapt to the new economy?
  5. Is it possible to run a large company with the new business model?
  6. Can ideapreneurs just get paid for ideas in this new way of things?
  7. Can we finally do what we love, and outsource the rest - FOR REAL?
  8. What does the future of business look like and how will it affect one's personal life?
  9. If long term planning is no longer reliable how can one "plan" to succeed?
  10. What are some practicle tools that one can take to ready existing businesses for the inevitable shift to a "free agent nation"
Level:
Beginner
Category:
Business / Entrepreneurial
Type:
Panel
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
victory darwin
on 8/8/08
...so I must learn to enjoy the learning, evolving and adapting process. This is what gives me the big advantage over old competitors who see change as an inconvenience and an expense!
DeBorah Beatty
on 8/8/08
The speed at which life moves these days does not lend itself well to the type of planning we did 10 years ago (or even 5). It's the difference between steering the Queen Mary and steering a speedboat! There is an element of planning that is possible, but not in a detailed fashion. You have to build in chaos and opportunity!
brent goodman
on 10/8/08
agree with victory above, it's about enjoying journey. I don't know if they'll ever get it right and teach that in schools, not even 20 years from now. I think free online education for entrepreneurship post highschool will become more popular and teach what you are talking about. 5 stars to you Melissa! see ya there.
brent goodman
on 10/8/08
and so much hype around web 2.0 everything and social networks... hard to know what is really effecting things. a lot of old school methods are still prevailing for the majority. it's mostly the young crowd and tech geeks who are adopting this stuff and having it change their lives.
Joanne Victoria
on 11/8/08
As George Carlin said, "There is no present, just the immediate past and the upcoming future"
Ken Jensen
on 12/8/08
At the age of 65, I think my father is part of a dying breed. The guys who made an entire career at one company. Thankfully, for him and outr family, he loved what he did but he always wanted more for my brother and I. But even he had companies bought and sold out from under him. He was just lucky enough to be able to stay in his own field, which he enjoyed.

I believe that kind of career planning can't possibly exist anymore. How can it? And now that tech chagnes so blindingly fast, I gotta go with Victory. Just enjoy the ride and do the best with what you can comprehend as you go. I think I mixed in a little DeBorah there, too.
Simon G
on 12/8/08
it's all about the "fake it till ya make it" hype in the web 2.0 universe with social marketing and viral etc. it's hype but it's real. .......as far as new models, you either build a system that has adaptation/evolution built into it... like automatic updating via crowdsourcing, or you die. Perpetual beta, man, it's what it's all about!
Keith Bray
on 13/8/08
Life moves on at a change rate like never before! We adapt as best we can. Yet somethings don't change, and I hope in our chase to be leading edge, we don't forget the basics that make people great, or the things that rip them apart.
Embrace today while not forgetting the fundamentals!!
Stanlee Panelle
on 13/8/08
Definitely! Life moves fast these days because of technology which we have become dependent on and to keep up means to remain open minded, teachable and positive about where it's taking you. I think the thing in between the old paradigm and today's pace, is knowing one's Self, one's Purpose, one's Mission and all that is reliant upon knowing one's Values. With these tools it is not so difficult to move ahead with the rest of the world. As we mature/age, learning and keeping up with technology does become more challenging but if you are attentive to what it all means: ONE WORLD WITH ONE HUMAN RACE GETTING TO KNOW IT'S SELF as it evolves, one finds motivation to keep moving ahead, although, it is not always imperative for everyone to do. Some of the speed of change is just a perspective of the mature watching the youth do what they do ... smiling ... I think this has always been true!
Melissa Pierce
on 14/8/08
Stanlee, You said it perspective is key. The thing that made me really see this differently was when Nova Spivack mentioned how the internet had changed the way we see ourselves, not just as a people, but as individuals. I just have never thought of it that way. How has technology redefined business, you, me, us? I just don't think most people's minds have caught up to the idea that it's truly a time when anything is indeed possible and with that comes an attitude that looks like "devil may care" but it's really just the way the world works.
Simon G
on 14/8/08
i'm back... forgot your 5 stars! ;)
Andy Renk
on 27/8/08
Hi Melissa, I love Daniel Pink's perspective on this. In his seminar he talks about how colleges train you to climb up the corporate ladder. His experience was mine. When I was a kid I wanted to go to film school. We used to shoot movies with the 8mm camera with all the neighborhood kids playing different parts. Of course, when I got to high school, my dad, who is an engineer, dissuaded me from that course. He said, "You'll never get a job doing that!" So I went to engineering school and then on the an MBA at Pepperdine. All good stuff. Great left brain thinking. But I am more of a creative soul, so after about 5 years in the building airplanes for living, I just quit and decided to do what I loved. Through a lot of trial and error, I've done pretty well. No drudgery in a 9-5 here. Everyday is new and not always easy but I wouldn't do it any other way.

I wonder what percentage of the population can live with that sort of uncertainty?
Garth Wyans
on 27/8/08
i'm down with creating a new exciting future of the unplanned life! not only is it more fun, but with the internet economy, change (constant change) is of the essence!
Melissa Pierce
on 28/8/08
@andy We just interviewed Dan Pink yesterday for the film we're making about this same subject! He said ambiguity is just going to be part of doing business in this new "experiential economy". But I do wonder how many people are going to sink and how many will float. My feeling is that the millenials will do just fine, it's already the world they live in, but the Gen Xers and older may have some real trouble. Hehe, some philanthropist should get all us old folks some life coaches to help us to the other side of being ok with ambiguity!
Victory Darwin
on 29/8/08
Melissa, that's what I'm thinking now after talking to Scott Degraffenreid about Millenials... the genX may think they're lazy but it doesn't matter, genY is already on it's way to being the new rulers whether they learn to understand eachother or not.
Melonie Gallegos
on 31/8/08
I vote yes on this topic. Marketing plans, web site planning, forecasting etc etc etc is so ingrained in how we approach our business. It would be great to question this and view planning from a fresh perspective. Planning 2.0!
Essay help
on 7/8/09
i'll give you 5 stars!
Art Directory
on 8/11/09
There's need to plan lives and businesses well in advance, despite the crumbling.
blu ray ripper
on 13/11/09
So looking forward to this..
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