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Smart Machines Will Eat Your Brains!

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“In a connected world, if you do not have world-class expertise, you are a commodity” http://t.co/vHkWCSxylc says @rossdawson indeed:)) — Gerd Leonhard (@gleonhard) October 20, 2013 This idea, espoused by Ross Dawson, was one of the kickstarts of my investigations in ‘the future of work.’ It was and is a selfish investigation – how can I stay relevant in the end of times? So I am always looking for triggers; data that deepens my perspective. Here’s the latest, from Gartner via CMS Wire. Enjoy it, before the machines eat you for breakfast: Smart Machines By 2020, we’ll see contextually aware, … Continue reading Smart Machines Will Eat Your Brains!

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Hiring Advice From Dee Hock (Or, Why Experience Is Unimportant)

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Which of these personal attributes is most important in someone you are hiring? Capacity Experience Integrity Knowledge Motivation Understanding I asked 25 students this question this week. Three answered ‘Integrity.’ This is the ‘right’ answer, according to Dee Hock – a leader before his time. Founding CEO of Visa, Hock has some great words of wisdom on many topics. Stumble upon more about these words here. I made a prezi to walk through this (see right – unfortunately and erroneously deleted). However, the gist of it goes like this… On hiring associates, Hock opines: “Hire and promote first on the basis … Continue reading Hiring Advice From Dee Hock (Or, Why Experience Is Unimportant)

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73% Say: When I Share, I Care…And I Learn

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Interesting infographic on how and what people read online. The data that most interested me: “73% say they process information more deeply, thoughtfully, when they share it.” So, when you share, you care more – about the info, about the recipients. This is something that has heavily impacted the way I work since beginning to work out loud, socially. I am constantly thinking: “(how) would this be useful for others?” I am curating content for my network (how ever small) – I am putting them first, AND learning more at the same time, by concentrating more on the data efficacy. … Continue reading 73% Say: When I Share, I Care…And I Learn

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#WorkHacks – Embrace Chaos

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Twenty of the 25 (US) jobs with “the largest projected growth don’t require college degree (& are low-wage)” – via @BillIves. [BTW: Many of these jobs are healthcare related. Clearly, sickness and health cannot be automated/outsourced (so much).] Simple, repeatable tasks, wherever possible, are being replaced through automation. More complicated tasks, non-core, are outsourced to cheaper locations. If you want to be (well) paid as a (developed world) knowledge worker, you need to move up the value chain toward complexity and chaos. Complexity is difficult to pass on to someone else to deal with. It take more intellectual rigour and sophistication to … Continue reading #WorkHacks – Embrace Chaos

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#WorkHacks – Get Some Hustle

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I have written about hustle before. Just as you need to get into the flow of ideas and networks, you need some hustle to strike when the opportunity arises. Hustle and flow is a great combination of attributes to possess – and is a basic tenet of the TMWK Manifesto. Hustle is a (much more) natural state of readiness for Millennials. According to a 2012 US Chamber of Commerce Foundation report, 27% of Millennials are self-employed, but a whopping 90% say entrepreneurship is a mindset, not an actual role. They expect to be treated like freelancers even as employees; 58% expect the standard workday … Continue reading #WorkHacks – Get Some Hustle

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#WorkHacks – Net Work

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Network theory is nothing new. What makes it so prescient and important for every worker today is how it gives us an opportunity to create / control our own future. Net work (sic) is the outcome of socializing and belonging. This @gapingvoid cartoon is probably the one that has had the most influence on my career. Reading it was an ‘Aha!’ moment – I need to work out loud, reach out to like-minded souls, participate and ask for help. It is not all up to me – it is up to the network. Net work embraces wirearchy. Net work is … Continue reading #WorkHacks – Net Work

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#WorkHacks – Socialize

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This one is simple. The Cluetrain Manifesto got it dead right 15 years ago: “All markets are conversations.” It will be several more years before all businesses understand this, but why not get ahead of the curve and get involved? Blog, tweet, share, converse, research. Build a deeper network of contacts, experts, (non) believers. Develop your perspective, challenge your own orthodoxy. This is the nature of social… How do you ‘do social’? Think of the social space as ‘small pieces, loosely joined.’ Deliver ‘many lightweight interactions over time‘ to manage attention. Understand that social opportunities are available for ‘everyone, anytime, everywhere, … Continue reading #WorkHacks – Socialize

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#WorkHacks – Create Serendipity By Reducing Bathrooms

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Serendipity implies things happening due to forces beyond your control. Yes, but no. You can create serendipity in your workplace through office design. I read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, and a story that stuck for me was his involvement in the design of his offices. He demanded only one toilet block for the entire office, and that it be in the atrium. He wanted serendipitous meetings to occur between people who would not otherwise collide and connect. Where’s The Washroom? At a recent knowledge share session at work, I asked 30 colleagues where they would place the kitchen … Continue reading #WorkHacks – Create Serendipity By Reducing Bathrooms

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Nature Is Networked Too

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How lovely to discover that Nature, bigger-than-thou, that ALWAYS wins out over time, is networked, like a cooperative enterprise. Although we’re accustomed to thinking of trees as individuals, competing with each other for sun and nutrients, recently uncovered evidence suggests that they cooperate, with more mature individuals transferring carbon and nutrients to less mature individuals through their root systems, mediated by the action of fungi. If forests actually are more cooperative enterprises than we have heretofore imagined, singleton, isolated trees might be regarded as being in an unnatural state, like the isolated team member of a virtual team. A little … Continue reading Nature Is Networked Too

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Cool, Lean, Fast: Recipe For Organizational Seduction

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A cute little Technocrati article on how Yammer has made enterprise software ‘sexy’, no less. I am a confirmed fan of the platform, though I have never heard it called sexy before, even by nerd-ola “Yampions.” Still, of more interest was its recipe for success: cool, lean, fast. Yes. Of course, this speaks to software, start-ups, the next big thing. This is how technology ‘seduces,’ according to the article. But it also speaks to more broader disorganizational changes coming to the workplace. Enterprises in all industries need to embrace the concepts of cool, lean, fast – to survive in the … Continue reading Cool, Lean, Fast: Recipe For Organizational Seduction

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Wow. Foucault 30+ years ago prognosticates (the need for) the social era.

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Great extract found at Sara Hendren’s blog from Foucault from 30+ years ago: Foucault “I dream of a new age of curiosity. We have the technical means for it; the desire is there; the things to be known are infinite; the people who can employ themselves at this task exist. Why do we suffer? “From too little: from channels that are too narrow, skimpy, quasi-monopolistic, insufficient. There is no point adopting a protectionist attitude, to prevent “bad” information from invading and suffocating the “good.” Rather, we must multiply the paths and the possibility of comings and goings.” Hello internet. Hello social. Hello … Continue reading Wow. Foucault 30+ years ago prognosticates (the need for) the social era.