LAURA L. NASH
something very odd is going on in the American corporate workplace. Em-
ployees are being told to prepare for
a radical new condition of perma- nent insecurity, a future full of sporadic lay- offs, endless efforts to upgrade job skills, and perpetually recombining work teams of insiders and "outsourcers." Continuous cor- porate "rightsizing" will dictate a "portfolio career" strategy: Since workers will no longer spend their careers with one or two...