How can we get people more engaged, more productive, and happier at work? Is technology part of the problem – and could it also be part of the solution? Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft, imagines what might be possible if more organisations embraced the full, empowering potential of technology and encouraged a truly open, collaborative and flexible working culture. Taken from a talk given by Dave Coplin as part of the RSA's free public events programme.Visit the RSA website for more RSA Animates.
How can we get people more engaged, more productive, and happier at work? Is technology part of the problem – and could it also be part of the solution? Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft, imagines what might be possible if more organisations embraced the full, empowering potential of technology and encouraged a truly open, collaborative and flexible working culture. Taken from a talk given by Dave Coplin as part of the RSA's free public events programme.
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This animation almost made me want to think about getting a "real job" :)
Thank you for the presentation Dave.
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The culture of openness itself seems being the self-limiting factor. Knowledge workers feel guilty in their choice of flexible working hours and space:
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Knowledge workers seem being not ready for free and open sharing of their knowledge. Knowledge Management experts still have no culture of working in Unified Conceptual Space:
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The situation resembles the period of liberation from physical slavery.
I believe that only Mental Liberation (of Knowledge Workers) will make the Trust at Work reality.
That is a very close minded comment. Lawyers could for example work from home in the future (teleconferencing when presenting cases or working with clients). Intellectual work is work of the mind which most of the time could be done at another place than an office. Cleaners, waiters and many of the manual task will eventually be replace with robots. We as a society are transforming and the bounds of the past apply less and less.
This is definitely me least favorite RSAnimate.
What kind of jobs is he talking about exactly? Sure, maybe some creative work... but this presentation is just unpractical feel-good nonsense which won't help most of us. I cant see how waiters, nurses, lawyers, cleaners, service people, technicians, or really ANYBODY in any industry (employers or employees) can get something out of this video.
The only ones who might benefit from working on the move are creatives like musicians, artists, and those creatives which were never required to work in a certain space with other to begin with.
Overall this speech was utterly useless nonsense, and I expected much more from RSAnimate who gave us the great "The Truth about What Motivates Us" and "Changing Education Paradigms."
1/10