Leveraging the Relationship and Sharing Economies: Innovation Potential and Strategies for Entry
1. Jerry Michalski, President of REX
Sustainable Brands 2015 San Diego
June 1, 2015
Leveraging the Relationship
and Sharing Economies:
Innovation Potential and Strategies for Entry
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Effects of the Sharing Economy
• Earn income from idle assets
• Idle assets are kept in motion
• Build relationships
• Build reputation
• Earn income in spare time, on demand
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Thorny Questions
Has the Sharing Economy
become the Rental Economy?
What does the Sharing
Economy mean for
manufacturers? GDP?
Are workers better off or worse
off? Who benefits here?
Is the Sharing Economy always
winner-take-all?
What should cities do about
the Sharing Economy?
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If we:
Stretch the truth
Treat you like cattle
Go to war on you
Call you “consumers”
Stalk you
Fill your world with noise
Deny mistakes and wrongdoing
Don’t really listen or engage
Why trust us?
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How to build trusted relationships
1. See your customers as peers
2. Be honest
3. Be open
4. Understand social dynamics
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How to build trusted relationships
1. See your customers as peers
2. Be honest
3. Be open
4. Understand social dynamics
5. Design from Trust
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Design from Trust is often:
Counterintuitive, risky,
uncomfortable
Cheaper than control
More effective
Transformative
Regenerative, social
But:
• It’s social, so there are
no guarantees
• It’s nested inside other
problems
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Thorny Questions
Stalk or serve?
Are people really trustworthy?
How might we shift our
measures of success, personal,
corporate and economic?
How do we shift from mistrust
to trust?
How do you deal with the bad
actors?
How do we manage the
Commons together?
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The idea landscape
Neighbors:
Compassionate Capitalism
Conscious Capitalism
Theory U/Presencing
Open Source
The Sharing Economy
Servant Leadership
Not Neighbors:
Attention Economy
Experience Economy
Authenticity
Mixed:
Creating Shared Value
Wikinomics
Big Data
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The Commons
• The Commons — Natural Resources — The Commons
• Coming back into relationship with the Earth
• Natural fit with sustainability, green, circular, sharing, etc.
• Governance models of The Commons (Elinor Ostrom)
• The New Commons: information, knowledge, learning