Future of Management - Coaching and Mentoring

Alan, this aligns perfectly with the coaching/mentoring model of management.  It restates German philosopher Immanuel Kant's observation that what people crave most is respect, which is a way of affirming meaning.  If we have meaning, we have value.  Kant says this is central to humans as rational creatures.   I would say spiritual creatures as well.  Rational and spiritual say the same thing.  We want to feel we have value.  Knowledge Workers especially are atuned to this need, since we have pushed the rational development dimension more than most other folks.  Yes, as we discussed, there is a pressing need to introduce coaching, mentoring as the way to go.  It is an opportunity that is emerging, a trend, as we futurists would say.  Coaching in this case means mentoring individually, not coaching teams, although coordination is needed, of course.  However, it is not the old assembly line teamwork now.  It is individualized innovation, creativity.  We need to keep this as an income option.  We may want, need it yet.  Paul