Out of this chaos is emerging a new breed of worker, the Ronin, who has broken with the tradition of career feudalism. Guided by a personally defined code of adaptability, autonomy, and excellence, Ronin are employing career strategies grounded in a premise of rapid change. By making lateral moves that follow their interests, they become generalists with specialities.

Organizations are searching for a way to revitalize, to become more flexible and innovative. Obviously, the solution lies in the synergistic efforts of those who populate the workplace. With the Ronin lies hope for a corporate renaissance.

Ronin is used here as a metaphor based on a Japanese word for lordless samurai to describe the optimal career strategy for the 1980's and beyond.

Dr. Beverly Potter, The Way of the Ronin: Riding the Waves of Change at Work