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Consider that you, your neighbor, your son or daughter in high school could handle my schedule. You could easily make phone calls, write letters, go through the in-basket and stay on my schedule. Yes, you could sit down tomorrow in the seat of a high-powered entrepreneur and orchestrate his highly complex job. With the 21st-century division-of-labor schedule, any great career could be yours. In my Fourth Vision, all ordinary people orchestrated exciting, dynamic, dream-building mini-companies.
Let us look at the underlying concept that allowed ordinary people to handle dynamic entrepreneurial jobs under tomorrow's new code. Go back for a moment to the eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith who identified that dividing labor into smaller and smaller units could build wealth at greater and greater speeds. Throughout the Industrial Revolution, society divided labor into smaller and smaller units -- into the physical movements of survival -- and became highly integrated. For instance, many people now worked for each individual making his clothes, farming his food, building his home, making his tools, his furniture and so on instead of each individual doing it all himself as done centuries ago.
As society became highly integrated through dividing labor, the economy became increasingly successful, and the act of living became increasingly easy. For instance, the street sweeper in the late 20th century lived with better choices of food, clothes, entertainment, travel than the aristocrats a few hundred years ago, even a few decades ago. Indeed, the division of labor changed the world forever. The division of labor caused the Industrial Revolution that eventually made America the most integrated thus the most prosperous civilization in history.
In the early 1900s, Henry Ford catapulted the power of the Industrial Revolution. Ford Motor Company divided labor into the smallest possible units -- into the physical movements of production -- and created the world's most integrated production method: the assembly-line.
The assembly-line integrated literally every split second of production. Dividing labor down to the precision movement of the rivet man, for instance, greatly intensified and simplified each split second for a tighter and tighter, no-waste integrated system. As Ford divided labor into smaller and smaller movements, his business went through production records with greater and greater profits. Indeed, the division of labor made Ford Motor Company the most integrated thus the most prosperous car company in the world.
My physically streamlined money-making factory also captured the essence behind America's rise to power and Ford Motor Company's rise to dominance. Of course, only tomorrow's living jobs, not today's non-living routine ruts, could successfully accommodate the dynamic division-of-labor schedule, the money-making factory for manufacturing money and success. You see, without money-making purpose -- the "DNA" of a living job -- then the physical movements to making money could not really exist; instead, we would remain bound to the same narrow set of specialized tasks day after day after day. In tomorrow's living jobs, we captured this division-of-labor power that lifted the world to modern prosperity...captured it in our own fast-track to success. (Yet, as you will see, this power was just the beginning, for later in this chapter you will witness the multiplying power of the mind.)
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