The Biggest Story of the 21 st Century Different organisational models are more important than technology – or shift happens Leon Benjamin

The Biggest Story of the 21 st Century? The end of command and control Massive advances in technology Prosperity to millions But at what cost to humanity, equality , society and the environment? Anglo-Saxon model has outlived its ‘usefulness’ Network organisation as the model of choice There is a spectre haunting the world. The spectre of peer-to-peer Open source production Collaborative capitalism * not * managerial capitalism The future is about less Africa’s response Almost exclusively in the hands of entrepreneurs “ The antibodies”.

The end of command and control

Massive advances in technology

Prosperity to millions

But at what cost to humanity, equality , society and the environment?

Anglo-Saxon model has outlived its ‘usefulness’

Network organisation as the model of choice

There is a spectre haunting the world. The spectre of peer-to-peer

Open source production

Collaborative capitalism * not * managerial capitalism

The future is about less

Africa’s response

Almost exclusively in the hands of entrepreneurs

“ The antibodies”.

What do these need to survive? Orders Order Stability Continuity Rules Fear Withholding Information Measurement Incentives Competition

Orders

Order

Stability

Continuity

Rules

Fear

Withholding Information

Measurement

Incentives

Competition

The Cost of Command & Control Modern Ways Open India’s Doors to Diabetes Got the cash but it comes with ‘issues’ Western diet/lifestyle 35m type 2 diabetics. 75m by 2030 Work Rage France Telecom’s suicide rate 21 since Feb 2008 One more last week despite ‘interventions’ 2.6m people in Britain on incapacity benefits Over 60% there courtesy of workplace stress Inequality USA 1950, CEO earns on average 40 X lowest paid worker In 2009, CEO earns on average 4,000 X lowest paid worker Frequently as high as 200,000 X 47m Americans without health insurance In the UK poverty is almost at pre-war levels Environment The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment The Story of Stuff, An Inconvenient Truth, etc, etc The West: Signs of cracking? US infant mortality, UK & US drop to 17 th & 19 th (out of 19) on preventable deaths 30m Americans on ‘low food security’ Education disparity

Modern Ways Open India’s Doors to Diabetes

Got the cash but it comes with ‘issues’

Western diet/lifestyle

35m type 2 diabetics. 75m by 2030

Work Rage

France Telecom’s suicide rate

21 since Feb 2008

One more last week despite ‘interventions’

2.6m people in Britain on incapacity benefits

Over 60% there courtesy of workplace stress

Inequality

USA 1950, CEO earns on average 40 X lowest paid worker

In 2009, CEO earns on average 4,000 X lowest paid worker

Frequently as high as 200,000 X

47m Americans without health insurance

In the UK poverty is almost at pre-war levels

Environment

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment

The Story of Stuff, An Inconvenient Truth, etc, etc

The West: Signs of cracking?

US infant mortality, UK & US drop to 17 th & 19 th (out of 19) on preventable deaths

30m Americans on ‘low food security’

Education disparity

What do these need to survive? Everyone is a leader Everyone sensing, responding, Transparency Trust Peers Agile Adaptable Self-organising

Everyone is a leader

Everyone sensing, responding,

Transparency

Trust

Peers

Agile

Adaptable

Self-organising

The Value of Peer-to-Peer Production Open Source Software Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay could not exist without Open Source technology Linux & Coase’s Penguin P2P lending Grameen bank, Kiva, Zopa...many others Prosperity without growth Steady state economies Fractional work Creative commons Crowdsourcing is solving some of the world's intractable problems NASA Clickworkers Open democracy The future of a country depends less on the nature of its issues, and more on its capacity to create social structures able to solve them

Open Source Software

Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay could not exist without Open Source technology

Linux & Coase’s Penguin

P2P lending

Grameen bank, Kiva, Zopa...many others

Prosperity without growth

Steady state economies

Fractional work

Creative commons

Crowdsourcing is solving some of the world's intractable problems

NASA Clickworkers

Open democracy

The future of a country depends less on the nature of its issues, and more on its capacity to create social structures able to solve them

A Guide for Entrepreneurs Think differently about ownership structures Visa – A Chaordic Model “ Complex rules and procedures lead to simple and stupid behaviour. Simple rules and regulations lead to intelligent and complex behaviour” – Dee Hock Ricardo Semler’s employee contract at Semco The 7 day weekend & work/life balance Think differently about labour models Fractional work The unit of work is no longer a whole job The future is about less Progress will be based on being rather than having Rate of change “ We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.” - R. D. Laing

Think differently about ownership structures

Visa – A Chaordic Model

“ Complex rules and procedures lead to simple and stupid behaviour. Simple rules and regulations lead to intelligent and complex behaviour” – Dee Hock

Ricardo Semler’s employee contract at Semco

The 7 day weekend & work/life balance

Think differently about labour models

Fractional work

The unit of work is no longer a whole job

The future is about less

Progress will be based on being rather than having

Rate of change

“ We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.” - R. D. Laing

Antibodies That’s what we should be looking for, antibodies ; some peaceful idea that binds us.......because we can all agree that this King of the Mountain shit has got to go; a lucky few get to spend a bit of time on top, but everybody spends most of their existence getting pissed on from a great height. So why do we continue doing it? Ubuntu “ I am because we are” In companies, leaders get their power from the top In networks, leaders get their power from the bottom

That’s what we should be looking for, antibodies ; some peaceful idea that binds us.......because we can all agree that this King of the Mountain shit has got to go; a lucky few get to spend a bit of time on top, but everybody spends most of their existence getting pissed on from a great height. So why do we continue doing it?

Ubuntu

“ I am because we are”

In companies, leaders get their power from the top

In networks, leaders get their power from the bottom