The Future of Work
Talks
Speaker:
Nilofer Merchant (Author, The Social Era, Harvard Business Review)
Key insights / quotes:
About 20 months ago, Nilofer arrived in Paris from Silicon Valley. While she's been here, she's been researching how new and novel ideas dent the world for an upcoming book (Onlyness, Penguin/2017). The European context combined with the discovery writing process has made her realize how much the truth doesn't match the myths and narratives of Silicon Valley: in fact, they are the opposite.
Idea that matters to us. -> Ideas become big by what you do.
“vous , not you” -> collaborative business.
Silicon valley way is a story that will end. We have to find a new way, less about wealth, more about prosperity.
Speaker:
Tim Leberecht (Founder, The Business Romantic Society)
Key insights / quotes:
3 key insights / quotes: „Business romantic“
we never work as much as now meanwhile we see mental illness increase
1) - „50% of jobs will be replaced in 2025“ (Osford study)
exponential organizations (i.e. Amazon, Uber (Efficiency, Algorythms) are not compassionate
2) - „The great question is wheter humans will be able to feel“
„Loneliness“ no „intimacy“, „not togetherness“
secrecy, mistery
Radiohead: forget me not: quirky, ephemerality, serendipity
3) Entering the romantic age:
volunteer
crowdsource ressource
online material
Google launched DayDream
What machines can't buy? → Character, Acumen, Spirit Heart.
Speaker:
Esko Kilpi (Founder, Esko Kilpi Company)
Key insights / quotes:
The words of business and work is at a pivotal moment of change: we finally understand that post-industrial work IS interaction. The relational view is a new conceptualization of work, and is opening up new opportunities: it is time to change the focus from creating jobs to creating customers — in new, innovative and interactive ways.
To quote Max Planck: “If you change the way you look at things, the things that you look at change.”
We need to challenge our beliefs in work and business.
2 - 3 key insights:
„Do you care and what do you care about?“ 1) Shift from…. To
„Purpose before profit“
„From growing what you have to growing what you can do“
„From supply side scaling up to demand side networking“
„From making things to connecting things“
2) Productivity
is about creating more value → the biggest democratization of productive capabilities
= learning
3) Why work?
Work is not a task or a role, work is a relationship
Work is interaction between interdependent people
„Platforms as the new commons“
New system of distributed tries changing government and politics? Blockchain.
What could be the opposite of industrialism? The unique that happens here and now.
Speaker:
Laurence McCahill Co-founder, The Happy Startup School
Key insights / quotes:
There’s a new breed of entrepreneur looking to realise their dreams – startup founders that place happiness before profits. The future belong to organisations with a clear purpose, that want to make a positive dent in the world.
Business is not only about money.
There are different definitions of success. Success is personnal.
We decided to create a business school which is about purpose and not only about money.
We ran a summer camp and different courses.
To start talking about Hapiness, I will start with an example of death. A man that despite building an empire of wealth, at the end of his life he realized he failed : "I blew it".
Beyond a certain threshold money do not create any happiness. Money by itself do not gives us any meaning. You cannot can by time back.
Focusing on relationship, continuous learning, making impact in the world, etc.
Start with purpose, engage the people you work with, and engage yourself.
Conversations
Speakers:
Arantxa Balson (AccorHotels) Rodolphe Dutel (Buffer.com)
Moderator: Antonin Léonard
Key insights / quotes:
How can we enable cultural transformation within companies in ways that empower employee intraprenuership and engagement in all levels of business and strategic decision-making? Where do we still need hierarchies? What should be decentralised can the blockchain really help with this? What should be monitored? Where should the line between monitorring, evaluation and freedom?
We will explore these questions through the lens of the strategies and goals of Buffer and AccorHotels.
Panels
Speakers:
Esko Kilpi (Esko Kilpi Company) Tim Leberecht (The Business Romantic Society) Nilofer Merchant (Innovation Expert/Harvard Author)
Moderator: Arthur De Grave- OuiShare
Key insights / quotes:
Are you ready to dive (?) in the post-industrial era? Are we really done with subordination? Are we entering the social era?
NM Express yourself in a sharing direction: Individual & Organization/System (Interactions/Relations)
TL: Romanticism is about the self / Dark side of romanticism
NM: not the same as Empowerment
EK: "you don't empower anybody in a symmetrical relationship“
NM: USA: 60% of work is not creative and 40 % is creative economy. "Winners take all the end“
EK "Our thinking is so outdated". We are meant to do several kind of activities
NM we have to find another way to measure the capabilities than outputs (GBP)
How do we measure creative work= What will be the new matrix? (ex. Twitter, parenting work, reading, writing a book) "Not everything to be measure“
NM Government has to manage the commons and protect us from business
TL Universal basic income + extra work. Transcendance
ER Worker → Customer
Speakers:
Teo Benjamin (Freelance, Teo Ferraz Benjamin) Jean-Michel Pailhon (Strategic advisor, Financial + Technology) Jeremy Vachet (Researcher, University of Leeds) Daan Weddepohl (CEO, Peerby)
Moderator: Martijn Arets (expedition leader, Crowd Expedition)
Key insights / quotes:
An Expert session for everyone that wants to consider crowd-based funding strategies (from equity to perks) to finance meaningful work: we'll help you navigate the possibility (and the challenges) that Crowdfunding now offers to people that want to make possible to work on what motivates them more.
Meet five international experts, learn and create relationships with them and set the basis for your next project!
Speakers:
Dylan Hendricks (Institute for the Future) Sarita Gupta (Jobs With Justice) Vincent Huguet (Hopwork)
Key insights / quotes:
35 key insights (specify which speaker said it):
Who are vulnerable ?
(Sarita)
In american, immense growth of subcontract/contrary work > dvpt of gig economy.
Many women and men will be impact if the industries not rapidly switch
What is the social contract giving the nature of work ? how do we figure out the flexibility (many reason to need as flexibility and reliability) . how to be creative as possible to shape the future of work ?
What is a social contract ?
(Vincent)
Low skill vs high skill worker. Freelancer on hopwork high skill people (90% chose to be freelancer)
Keep them access to large customer
How freelance can become stakeholders to the company ?
What is the model in the us ?
(Sarita)
They need for health care as much as childcare. They don’t have social insurance. Dvpt of homecare workers > how could we work together (workforce excluded, slave jobs, no collective bargaining or any kind of protection). How can we as a platform could we care the health sector and consumers.
What kind of traditional protect exist ?
(Sarita)
It’s a really exciting time in the labour movement < lot of experimentation (how to reorient as a worker centered model?)
They need access to training but impossible to negotiate to tell what they need. The question : How to ensure commercial and social benefit
(Vincent)
The state have to reinvent and to give a good way to being an employee than a freelancer
Another aspect of the decentralization is the independance (as loneliness)
(Vincent)
We talk a lot to our community to understand what they need. They feel alone so they need to group themselve. A solution could be a coworking but it’s not enough. We organisation “hopdrink” where they can share their fears, success and what they expect from the community. If you group yourself, you can be stronger.
Workshops
Facilitators:
Leander Bindewald (MAN Groomer, Mutual Aid Networks) Stephanie Rearick (Creative Director, Mutual Aid Networks)
Key insights / quotes:
Description of workshop format: Introduction of facilitators & all participants Brief introduction video Talk, overview mutual aid networks Experiment Personal worksheet - robust budgeting worksheet. Q & A
3-5 key learnings:
Mutual aid network - create a cooperative around a common goal, everyone has participation in running it.
Reorganizing the economy - > getting to have people behave differently.
Cooperative: fair transparent, inclusive, core values: one vote per member, shared ownership,
They classify different kinds of work: productive work, self work, care work:
community work
Approach: just launched, open for new memberships, own platform, anyone can become a member, people can exchange time, frequent flyer miles, housing etc.
Facilitators:
Jörn Hendrik Ast (Solopreneur & Superhero-Trainer, Superhero Institute GbR)
Key insights / quotes:
How can we prepare for the workplace of the future by finding our career superforce? We will take the search to find your career superforces and determine which is your career superhero. You'll get a test result, a personal reference from the interview partner and the superhero certificate!We will take the search to find your career superforces and determine which is your career superhero.
Facilitators:
Jacopo Romei (Member, Cocoon Projects)
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Attendees will build and share models and stories about good and bad collaboration patterns. Attendees will come out with recommendations on how to drive negotiation to foster healthy collaborations.
Facilitators:
Sarah de Heusch (project officer, SMart)
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Fishbowl
Speaskers:
Michel Bachmann (Impact Hub Zurich) Marie Chartron (Les Enfants Perdus) Aurélie Salvaire (Shiftbalance)
Moderator: Asmaa Guedira (OuiShare/Womanity)
Key insights / quotes:
Gender & creative communities: the end of hierarchy?
The paradigm shift we have been witnessing in the economy is also happening regarding gender balance. Gender categories as hierarchical and differentiating are exploding, and it impacts many areas.
In the work environment, gender should play a little role. But it's still not the case: there are still general discrimination against women or queer, wage inequality, etc., except in the innovative ecosystems, collaborative economy, social business, creative networks, etc.
Is it allowed because the values that are promoted in those organizations (autonomy, trust) are more "feminine" and inclusive?
We will also explore how this attention paid to singularity and holistic approach to the person in these new ecosystems) also impacts other areas (sexual-identity fluidity, neo-relationships, sexuality, etc.).
We are going to explore these questions:
1) describing this shift in comparison to the traditional work and academic world
2) analyzing if that shift is related to generation change and / or way of working ?
3) If it's allowed because the values that are now promoted in those organizations (autonomy, trust) are more "feminine" / inclusive?
4) And how this attention paid to singularity AND holistic approach to the person (at work) also impacts other areas (gender identities, relationships, sexuality etc.) as an opening conclusion part.
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