We are moving…1700-1900-2000 Are you ready for the 21st century? Awesome video [must see]
Government as a platform for social innovation #gov20
After reading a few hours about Don Tapscott thoughts on government, I want to share some highlights on governing by network with you:
Why do we see the same institutions that produced the current mess as the source of solutions and stability in the future? Why do we take most of the old assumptions about how the world works for granted? Let’s call for a complete rethink of the top-down approach to global problem solving. Don’t call the same old elite club of decision makers, new models of social innovation and wealth creation offer genuine promise. Traditional instruments like taxes and legal agreements won’t be enough. Isn’t it time for a new model of regulation: one that uses the web to disclose pertinent information and enables a worldwide network of experts to pool their tips and analysis? There is a new fabric of connectivity in society that is leading to a deep change in our institutions.
We All Want to Be Young
Why not open-source government? The potential for new models of collaboration does not end with the production of software, media, entertainment and culture.
Wat is het nieuwe werken? #hnw10
Free agent vs The Organization Man
We work as free agents. What’s the difference between free agents and the organization man?
The Organization Man: an individual, who ignored or buried his own identity and goals in the service of a large organization, which rewarded his self-denial with a regular pay-check, the promise of job security and a fixed place in the world.
They had lowered their sights to achieve a good job with adequate pay and proper pension and a nice house in a pleasant community populated by people as nearly like themselves as possible. They abided by a Social Ethic, a secular theology that placed the organization at the center of belief. Work was a one-size-fits-all proposition, for example: people arrived at work at the same time and left in unison as well.
(William H. Whyte, 1956)
Free agent: the independent worker who operates on his own terms, untethered to a large organization, serving multiple clients and customers instead of a single boss. They are free from the bonds of a large institution and agents of their own futures. They are the new archetypes of work.
The rise of free agency shatters many ironclad premises about work, life and business, from how companies should operate to how we structure our health care, retirement and education systems, to which values guide our lives.
Free agents fashion their work lives to suit their own needs and desires, instead of accepting the uniform values, rules and structure of a traditional job. Opposite to the organization man era of “one size fits all” they prefer “my size fits me”.
(Daniel H. Pink, 2001)
Changing Education Paradigms (must see)
