Before most MBA students landed a job in a big corporation
Nowadays
Flatter organisations
Succesfull College dropouts
=> intrapreneurs or entrepreneurs
VOLATILE:
we need to constantly re-invent ourself: learn & unlearn
Need to develop comportemental competencies
Speed and agility above control and top quality
- UNCERTAIN
what will be the future needs, which jobs will be necessary, …
Need for more experimentation and thus acceptance of failure
L&D need to be more business savvy
- COMPLEX
NWOW, new competitors, expectations, technologies, …
Filter content & Support manager and employee in self-directed learning happen
T he content of the learning is the responsibility of the business
- AMBIGUOUS
Boundries are dissapearing: knowledge has to flow through the organisation
Sharing & Collaboration is key to ensure clarity and all work towards the same goal: working out loud, serendipity
Robotisation – added value?
also algorithms for strategic decision making
War for talent for scarce competencies
Wellbeing
Egyptian farao’s reaction on scripture
Technology will not make us stupid, but we will need to live with it
Elon musk => cyborgs?
How to make a difference as a human?
IQ, EQ and AQ (adaptability quotient)
Business models, technical knowledge
Production, supply chain, marketing & sales, Human Resources, finance, communication, legal, strategy, organizational design, change management, …
But: know they are only models, there is nog one size fits all, you’ll need to adapt it to the context you live in
Different profiles, learn to collaborate, learn their languages
Finance
Story: rope
Learn to know yourself better
Remain critical
Continuous work
Understand you know nothing and that you will never know everything you need to know
Not get everything out of it
Hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard
Work to hard
Forget about social relationships, family and friends
or suffer the consequences
Never get soo busy making a living that you forget to make a life
Party hard
Some will need less sleep than you:
proven benefits of sleep - wellbeing
Improves memory
You live longer
Makes you healthier
More creative
Sharpens attention
Weight loss
Lower stress levels
Avoid accidents
Avoid depression
Copy cases:
take into account the context and the history
People join comlpanies and leaves managers
Small boat or big boat => you are responsible as well for the machinery as for its crew!
Well being
Constant development
Napoleon:
It is never the fault of the soldier, it is always the fault of the gneral
Not the right man
Not the right tools
Not the right supervision
Purpose:
Stone cutter building cathedrals or cleaning man helping to put a man on the moon
Mastery:
Autonomy:
- Hire good people and leave them alone
The new currency
Comes on foot but leaves on horseback (or with uber if you want)
You need that safety to increase the autonomy of your teams
You have the power!
As the future is uncertain, the only way to keep control over it is to be yourself in the drivers’ seat.
You’ll need to keep on learning, and unlearn what you have learned and learn new ways to attain your goals, because the context will have changed in the meantime.
I worked in recruitment… WAR for Talent
Company chooses
If not:
Listings
Alumni network en support
Location
Fee
Cultural fit
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