Work Futures Update | Fluid and Open
| Teams of Teams | Job Bots Hell | DoorDash Rebound | Amazon Delivery Culling | Unincluded |
Beacon NY 2020–02–17 | I’ve been very heads-down on a number of writing projects, but still managing to write longer pieces here, now that I have moved to a weekly-only regime for Work Futures. I’m less stressed, as well.
Quote of the Week
Value in this world comes not from providing the same thing over and over to a client, but from managing kaleidoscopic change processes that are busily bumping one another. Because one now needs to see and seize ever-changing opportunities, the new organizational model must be a fluid, open team of teams. That is precisely what one sees in the islands where the new world of change is already flourishing — for example, Silicon Valley and Bangalore. Here (and increasingly everywhere) the critical factor for success is determining what percentage of your people are changemakers, at what level — and how good a job you are doing in enabling them to work together in fluid, open teams of teams.
| Bill Drayton, A Team of Teams World (2013)
Fluid-and-open is a synonym for the fast-and-loose business model I’ve been writing about for years. [Emphasis above is mine.]
