For some really fascinating reading check out Business Week’s The Future of Work, covering a myriad of topics and issues for managers, career info and guidance for workers and profiles of what and how technologies are changing the work-world.

Especially interesting is the survey of 2,000 Americans in middle management and above, 25 years and older, on work, now and in a decade. Some of the responses were expected, some surprising, some sad, a few hilarious, but all are interesting. Here are a few of my favorites:

Now

• 90% of managers think that they’re among the top 10% of performers in their workplace. (LOL/ROF)
• 11% of men, vs. 5% of women, are scared of their spouse.
• 36% say people got more done before the era of email.
• 6% of respondents under age 30 have accidentally called their boss mom or dad.

Ten years from now

• 82% believe that self-fulfillment, as opposed to fear, will be the most powerful workplace motivator.

However many of the individual of articles you choose to read, there is one particular piece of intelligence that had better penetrate your brain.

Whatever your business, large or small, global or local, at all levels, you’d better concentrate on retaining your talent, all your talent, top to bottom, because it’s becoming more and more irreplaceable, as well as more and more expensive when you do—a trend that won’t be slowing down any time soon!

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