What is past is prologue.
It has been clear for some time now that labor marketplaces, software and automation/AI were going to impact the employability, re-skilling and mobility of countless Americans. <2016 White House report>
At the onset of 2017, I took a detour from building companies. I spent the last 3 years (02/17 thru 01/20) as the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at JFF (Jobs for the Future), one of the nation’s leading social impact organisations on the future of work and economic advancement. …
From YCombinator Blog Post: What’s the Second Job of a Startup CEO?
“The transition from “Doer-in-Chief” to “Company-Builder-in-Chief”… “When you’ve been a successful Doer-in-Chief, it’s hard to stop. It’s hard to stop coding, designing product specs, and interacting with customers on a daily basis. It’s hard to stop answering support tickets, doing all the product demos, and debugging the latest build. It’s even hard to delegate the random and sometimes menial tasks that you’ve accumulated over the years because they were “no one’s job.” …
The Century of the Common Man — A Vision. Video | Text
“When the freedom-loving people march — when the farmers have an opportunity to buy land at reasonable prices and to sell the produce of their land through their own organizations, when workers have the opportunity to form unions and bargain through them collectively, and when the children of all the people have an opportunity to attend schools which teach them truths of the real world in which they live — when, these opportunities are open to everyone, then the world moves straight ahead”
Was struck today by Accenture’s Liquid Workforce report and their prediction that by 2025 we will see at least one new global 2000 company with *no* full-time employees outside of the C-Suite. Living in LA for many years, I appreciated the analogy to the Hollywood system. We’ll have stewards of human capital (aka *Creativity*) investment dolling out $10s of millions to production teams who will assemble, glue together and manage the best specialists for the job.
At the forefront of this curve, innovative startups are now outsourcing full functions with finance going to groups like Full Stack Finance. Security teams…
From Martin Luther King’s A Time to Break Silence
“These are revolutionary times. All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression and out of the wombs of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born.
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society.
Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole…
Jason Cavnar
Entrepreneur. Builder. Investor. Coach.
