ABSTRACT
The change happening to the foundations of social capital presents special challenges that will be difficult for organizations to navigate. During the Followership Agreements of the late twentieth century, productivity and management experts Edward Deming and Peter Drucker made famous comments about "driving fear out of the workplace" as a precondition to leading a healthy and growing organization. Trying to maintain permanence through networks of people is not only inadvisable as a strategy; it would be suicidal to attempt in the face of the arrival of artificial intelligence. All the management efforts continued to lower the permanence of people–clients and colleagues–such that it began to threaten sustainable growth. Henry Ford was the first to realize the relationship between social mobility and meaningful work, like the social meaning people lost when they left their farms in rural America. New artificial intelligence products will easily accomplish what used to be repetitive and time-consuming calculations by people.
