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Hello there!
@clayparkerjones
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Study, develop, and spread adaptive ways of working and
organizing that accelerate meaningful progress for all.
@clayparkerjones
UNDERCURRENT ’S PURPOSE
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Make organizations habitable
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MY PURPOSE
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Gamification?
@clayparkerjones
SOOOO….
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The workplace is already gamified
@clayparkerjones
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Bosses
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OFFICE SPACE
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Raids
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JUST GOOGLE “BOARD MEETING”
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Scoring
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Rules
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TOM FISHBURNE
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Every day, millions of people wake up and play
a boring RPG called “Professionalism”
@clayparkerjones
DOCTOROW
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The organization is broken
@clayparkerjones
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Why is it broken?
@clayparkerjones
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CHANGE
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BRYNJOLFFSON, MCAFFEE
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Computing Power
@clayparkerjones
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@clayparkerjones
$0
$2,250,000,000,000
$4,500,000,000,000
$6,750,000,000,000
$9,000,000,000,000
1960 1974 1987 2001 2014
COST PER GIGAFLOP
TOP 500
BORING CHART, RIGHT?
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@clayparkerjones
COST PER GIGAFLOP
$0
$1
$1,000
$1,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$1,000,000,000,000
1960 1974 1987 2001 2014
TOP 500
LOG S CALE!
B OOM!
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+ Platforms (AK A Infrastructure)
@clayparkerjones
AU TOMAT TIC – SOME THING LIKE 250 PEOPLE REACHING A BILLION USERS!?
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EVANS
+ Networks (AK A Globalization)
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+ higher highs & lows
@clayparkerjones
HDI: HEALTHY LIFE, GOOD EDUCATION, STANDARD OF LIVING
0
0.5
1
1938 1960 1980 2000
ROSER
OECD
REST/EUROPELATAMCHINAINDIA
S. AFRICA
N. AFRICAREST/ASIA
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+ higher highs & lows
@clayparkerjones
ROSERIT ’S NOT PERFECT BU T IT ’S GE T TING BE T TER
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+ fewer conflicts
@clayparkerjones
ROSER
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= higher quality of life
@clayparkerjones
HOLY CRAP WHAT IF THE MAT TERNE T EXISTED?
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= more oppor tunities
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WHY PAY FOR SCHOOL?
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= easier to star t
@clayparkerjones
THIS IS INSTAGRAM @ $1BN VALUATION
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= easier to scale
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ASYMCO
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= more choice (For all users)
@clayparkerjones
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= more complexity
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BAR-YAM
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= easier to fail
10% OF THE TOP 5,000 FIRMS ARE GONE EVERY YEAR
SHOULD WE EVEN TRY TO KEEP THEM ALIVE?
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Designed to fail
@clayparkerjones
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@clayparkerjones
-4.0
-2.0
0.0
2.0
4.0
6.0
8.0
1949
1953
1957
1961
1965
1969
1973
1977
1981
1985
1989
1993
1997
2001
2005
2009
2013
1948-‘73 1973-‘90 1990-‘07 2007-‘13
Output 4.00 3.10 3.60 1.10
Capital 3.70 4.20 4.10 1.40
Labor 1.00 1.90 1.60 -0.10
Productivity 2.10 0.50 1.20 0.70
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Labor contribution doubling maybe every 50 years
Computing power doubling every 18 months
We clearly don’t know what we’re doing
@clayparkerjones
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The organizations we have are broken
@clayparkerjones
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Complex Adaptive Systems
@clayparkerjones
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Hierarchies &
Complication &
Silos &
Conformity &
▶︎ Predictability
▶︎ Control
▶︎ Profit
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@clayparkerjones
Hierarchies & Networks
Complication & Emergence
Silos & Flow
Conformity & Experimentation
Uncertainty ▶︎ Predictability
Empowerment ▶︎ Control
Purpose ▶︎ Profit
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Achievable at scale
@clayparkerjones
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How?
@clayparkerjones
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@clayparkerjones
Hierarchies & Networks
Complication & Emergence
Silos & Flow
Conformity & Experimentation
Uncertainty ▶︎ Predictability
Empowerment ▶︎ Control
Purpose ▶︎ Profit
Allow teams to self-organize
Reduce number of rules, increase their legitimacy
Work in public and push transparency
Undo the matrix with multidisciplinary teams
Make it easy to “ship”
Foster disposable metrics, projects and teams
Set purpose and property and watch what happens
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KNIBERG
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Self-organizing Lean
Autonomous Multidisciplinary
@clayparkerjones
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Continually reorganized on purpose, for users,
around projects
@clayparkerjones
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@clayparkerjones
DIGNAN
ACTIVIT Y
PROFILE
SKILLS
RESOURCES
RESISTANCE
ACTION
FEEDBACK
BL
AC
K B
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OU
TCO
ME
S
OB
JEC
TIV
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@clayparkerjones
DIGNAN
SALES
ACHIEVER; L ACK OF FACULT Y
PREP; FOLLOW-THROUGH
RESOURCES
TIME; COMPE TITION
ACTION
DATA; POINTS
BL
AC
K B
OX
STAT
US,
LE
AD
S
OB
JEC
TIV
ES
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@clayparkerjones
HOLACRACY
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Toward a healthy, living organization
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