As a web developer by trade, I am able to work pretty much wherever I have an internet connection. So if I'm travelling to a client's office, if I'm on the train, or even at the local coffee house, as long as I get online, I can access team messages, texts, e-mails, source code, images, fonts, or file uploads.

The same may or may not be true for your job, but I highly encourage you to start thinking about how you can become more mobile in your workplace. I believe that entire industries will start to become fluid and to have less of a distinction between home vs. office, work vs. play, and online vs. offline.

For business owners, ongoing infrastructure to support your work is a major concern: consider if your bulky or outdated phone plan is still relevant in today's reality of VOIP, workers in multiple time zones, conference calling, and multiple mobile devices. I'm researching Easy Office Phone, a hosted PBX provider for small and medium sized businesses, which allows great flexibility for the mobile workers who need to "work from anywhere and everywhere". For example, the Easy Office Phone service may be installed on an iPhone, Android Phone, Mac, or PC, and also on hardware-based digital office telephones for a desk. Features like auto attendant, voicemail, extensions, conference calling, free long distance, and a web portal to manage your service come standard with the service, and they even allow you to keep your existing business telephone number.

As inhabitants of the 21st century and as contributors in the global workforce, all of us in business can learn how to be more effective, nimble, and flexible - starting with the basics of pen and paper, computer, and your phone service. Figure out where you stand now with your existing tools and assess if they will help you towards your 1-year, 2-year, and 5-year plans.