The document discusses how technology is changing work and identity. Effective teams have psychological safety, which improves retention, profitability, and teamwork. As automation increases, future jobs will involve either directing computers, being directed by computers, or helping people cope with change. Identity is shifting from a static noun to a fluid verb as technology allows for multiple identities. Companies will need to help people integrate their different selves and sell wisdom to address this change. The ultimate goal is for organizations to become more humane through a process of "corporate intimacy".

1. Is this
Corporate Intimacy?

2. Google:
what makes a team
effective?

3. psychological safety
Improves retention,
profitability & Teamwork

6. everything that can
be automated
will be automated

7. jobs of the future:
1. People who tell computers
what to do
2. people who are told by
computers what to do
3. people who help people cope

8. coping with change
is the world’s
fastest growing
industry

9. technology is
changing how we
think of identity

10. identity is shifting
from a noun to a verb

11. we are all developing
multiple identity
syndromes

12. We all need help
integrating all our selves

13. brands will
sell wisdom

14. companies will
develop mystics

15. we have entered
an age of purpose

16. nothing will be
not safe for work

17. our work will be
making it safe

18. the outcome is a
more humane organization

19. corporate intimacy is not just
about adapting to change.
It is the change itself.

20. Our task is shifting our
organizational stories
from nouns to verbs