Hello there!

@clayparkerjones

Study, develop, and spread adaptive ways of working and

organizing that accelerate meaningful progress for all.

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UNDERCURRENT ’S PURPOSE

Make organizations habitable

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MY PURPOSE

Gamification?

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SOOOO….

The workplace is already gamified

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Bosses

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OFFICE SPACE

Raids

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JUST GOOGLE “BOARD MEETING”

Scoring

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Rules

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TOM FISHBURNE

Every day, millions of people wake up and play

a boring RPG called “Professionalism”

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DOCTOROW

The organization is broken

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Why is it broken?

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CHANGE

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BRYNJOLFFSON, MCAFFEE

Computing Power

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$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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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!

+ Platforms (AK A Infrastructure)

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AU TOMAT TIC – SOME THING LIKE 250 PEOPLE REACHING A BILLION USERS!?

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EVANS

+ Networks (AK A Globalization)

+ higher highs & lows

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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

+ higher highs & lows

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ROSERIT ’S NOT PERFECT BU T IT ’S GE T TING BE T TER

+ fewer conflicts

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ROSER

= higher quality of life

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HOLY CRAP WHAT IF THE MAT TERNE T EXISTED?

= more oppor tunities

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WHY PAY FOR SCHOOL?

= easier to star t

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THIS IS INSTAGRAM @ $1BN VALUATION

= easier to scale

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ASYMCO

= more choice (For all users)

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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?

Designed to fail

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-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

Labor contribution doubling maybe every 50 years

Computing power doubling every 18 months

We clearly don’t know what we’re doing

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The organizations we have are broken

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Complex Adaptive Systems

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Hierarchies &

Complication &

Silos &

Conformity &

▶︎ Predictability

▶︎ Control

▶︎ Profit

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Hierarchies & Networks

Complication & Emergence

Silos & Flow

Conformity & Experimentation

Uncertainty ▶︎ Predictability

Empowerment ▶︎ Control

Purpose ▶︎ Profit

Achievable at scale

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How?

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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

Self-organizing Lean

Autonomous Multidisciplinary

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Continually reorganized on purpose, for users,

around projects

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DIGNAN

ACTIVIT Y

PROFILE

SKILLS

RESOURCES

RESISTANCE

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DIGNAN

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ACHIEVER; L ACK OF FACULT Y

PREP; FOLLOW-THROUGH

RESOURCES

TIME; COMPE TITION

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HOLACRACY

Toward a healthy, living organization

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