Visionaries Wanted! The Dr. Wisdom Challenge. First submitted Ideas & Concepts!
One week ago we′ve started the Dr. Wisdom Challenge here on LinkedIN. And we′ve already received many excellent submissions (see below for more info).
If you are ready to demonstrate your skills and visionary capabilities as a futurist then you should take part at the challenge!
You just have to tell us your thoughts about how the future of work might look like in seven years? Specifically, share with us three ideas that you believe are essential for transforming our workplaces in order to survive-and-thrive in the future. Leave comments here.
How you can participate at the “Dr. Wisdom” Challenge: It′s super easy! Just leave a comment below and outline your three ideas. There are no rules other than you coming up with innovative ideas, concepts, etc. about how you envisage the future of work and our workplaces. Last day of submission is October 31, 2019. We will jointly select the best ideas here on LinkedIN via public voting by November 10, 2019.
Some selected, stimulating examples of current Dr. Wisdom aspirants:
- 4/5-hour workdays.
- Free education & healthcare.
- Give-first mentality over profits and monetary gain. Compassion lead society.
- In the future it will be essential to work without a workforce: on one side because the flexibility given to employees will push new models where employees can work for multiple companies at the same time and get paid for their skills, talents and creativity rather than for "work-hours". On the other side because the digital workforce made by bots, AI algorithm and smart assistants will be all around us and will replace majority of repetitive tasks.
- To thrive it will be essential to hire employees for their mind and hearth rather than for experience and knowledge. Twenty years from now all type of knowledge will be available to everyone, and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be able to interpret data and provide insights to make better decision. Therefore, organization must hire employees with skills that machines cannot provide: the mind to analyze data and find causation from correlation, and the hearth, to use computer-generated insights with empathy, ethic, and to make the world a better place.
- Finally, to transform our workplaces leaders will have to trust who they hire. As technology is changing faster and faster, leaders will not be able to keep up with all the latest technologies, the latest trends, the latest algorithms and opportunities while running global corporation. The secret will be to surround yourself with people you completely trust and empower them to carry the organizations forward.
- Let the robot become leaders of any automated process and allow the human beings to become "creators" of new activities and projects.
- Develop the art of craftmanship and nurture these skills as fundamentals for the development of the work-life balance and for the empowering attitude of an individual.
- Create sharing spaces where people can meet, talk, share experiences and be inspired in developing fulfilling activities that won't be called "job" anymore but life, where people can grow and exchange, put the experience at the service of projects and be nurtured by other people ideas and lives.
- Increasing cross-hiring of middle-aged persons from “dying” professions into entry-level careers in blossoming professions such as software engineering, data science and AI. Age was removed as an explicit barrier for entry-level roles decades ago through the advent of so-called equal-opportunity employment. But age survived as an implicit barrier, particularly in developing countries, where “young graduates” are targeted for entry-level roles in blossoming professions. With longevity increasing and the “old” jobs like driving dying, people will try desperately to reinvent their carriers at least once in their lifetimes, if not more. There would be a crisis of human irrelevance, if we don’t see middle-aged people admitted to jobs and vocational education, in emerging job markets.
- Typical for-profit startup businesses incorporating in their memorandums motivations beyond mere profit for the founding shareholders, and enshrining commitments to industry growth or a domain contribution, inclusivity, fair play, extension of ownership to staff, education, decorum and corporate social responsibility. Basically, if we are to reduce gross wealth inequality and corruption, and contribute to sustained industry or domain growth in any sphere, this plural definition of success is essential. A scalable, growing, balanced company is more than a mere structure for its shareholders to make a profit. It’s a vehicle for producing a socioeconomic success story. And we must begin to think of companies that way.
- A raising of consciousness’ against victimization through contact with those having malignant personality disorders such as NPD and psychopathy. Human resources departments are nowadays alert to patterns of gender discrimination, sexual harassment and overt violence, but the sly, long-term psychological damage caused by personality disorders at the workplace is not something that is discussed explicitly as a problem in HR circles. The damage caused in victims is immense, and the patterns are easily recognizable once trained.
- Thinking about the Future Of Work I think you have to consider the future of education what needs to change to support the new world of work. This is not just “more STEAM and more data scientists” this is “with advances in technology and data available, should kids still take the same classes? Should they still go through 12th grade?”
- There is much focus on robotics and tech, but less on how to optimize human capacity and creativity. Humans were not created to be stimulated at the rate we are in society now, so how to we generate the best performance of human power by leveraging all of our knowledge on sleep cycles, optimal diets for performance, the power of music on the mind, etc)
- At some point a company can no longer shrink its operational expenses any further to grow margins. Successfully leveraging the right business process outsourcing models along with strategic cross-service product lines/markets via merger/acquisition will be key.
What do you think about these ideas and concepts? Please share your thoughts with us and/or participate at the Dr. Wisdom Challenge here.
What you can win at the “Dr. Wisdom” Challenge: The best three contributors will each receive:
- A lot of exposure! I′ll be posting multiple times your ideas and comments across LinkedIN, Twitter, and Facebook with mentioning you as the creator.
- An Amazon gift card valued US$ 25.
- A signed copy of my latest book.
Looking very much forward to your participation and your ideas! Let′s get started!
Many thanks,
Andreas von der Heydt
Disclaimer: The Dr. Wisdom Challenge has nothing to do with Amazon nor with my work at Amazon. It′s a pure private pleasure and initiative.
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Andreas von der Heydt is Director of Talent Acquisition & Recruiting at Amazon. Before he held various senior management positions at Amazon and L'Oréal. He's a leadership expert and management coach. Andreas worked and lived in Europe, Australia, the U.S. and Asia. Currently he lives with his wife and daughters in Seattle, USA. Andreas enjoys blogging as a private person here on LinkedIn about various exciting topics. His latest book is about what makes a future leader. All statements made, opinions expressed, etc. in his articles only reflect his personal opinion.
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5 年Thanks Andreas that you liked my ideas.
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5 年The future of work over the next 7 years relies on our willingness to modify the current ways of performing work, redefining where we work, and to stretch the boundaries of what it means to be valued as a human being. 1. Governments/ leaders/ organizations, local or world, will invest more in the quality of how students learn. This will foster a sense of group efforts and inclusivity, collaborations driven by curiosity with diverse outcomes, and project work to prepare our youth to challenge old ideas of what boundaries exist our current workforce climate. Social skills will play an integral role a successful outcome of this investment. 2. Technology plays a large role in the changing workforce of today. I imagine this is not slowing anytime soon. With the expansion of the IoT(Internet of things), the evolution of the need for human skills in utilizing this technology is prevalent today and will be even more later on . As of today, some obstacles in expanding the human knowledge base of technology is: time, money, and awareness of what specific skills need to be obtained to perform a job. Over the next 7 years, I see more of an action to grow urgent needed skills with keeping IoT in the forefront, to generate awareness of the opportunities to be afforded from this action. 3. The productivity of the workforce depends on cultivating talents in individuals, thus creating better leaders. This requires redefining what great leaders look like. In 7 years, I believe many countries will afford more opportunities to become a leader, emphasizing focus on helping with issues of inequalities in gender, race, or other identifiable constraints we place on a person. A part of the transformation our human workforce is the need to redefine what it means to be a leader, as well as what it means to be human.?