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- 1. What Tech Startups Should Be Doing Next @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 2. World’s Largest Meetup Group
- 3. @jessicalawrence #startnext $ We provide the stage where billion dollar companies launch in New York, we connect founders with funders and key resources to grow their businesses, we advocate for access to technology and connectivity for all New Yorkers, and we host conversations on key issues like diversity in tech and tech workforce development.
- 7. @jessicalawrence #startnext (one of our most poorly designed products) Work!
- 8. It has a lot of negative side effects It’s outdated. It’s functionality doesn’t meet the users’ needs. No one really likes it. It’s inefficient.
- 11. Only 20% of people can say they like what they do every day. Source: Wellbeing by Tom Rath @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 12. 4% Burned Out 96% @jessicalawrence #startnext Source: Harvard Medical School
- 15. Photo Illustration by 731
- 16. 45 million Americans live below the poverty line
- 17. Bad bosses Useless meetings Sorry son, just need to hit send… You want me to pump where?
- 23. CHANGE!
- 25. TRUST
- 27. WELLBEING = HUMAN RIGHT @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 30. Results Only Work Environment: Wherever Whenever As long as the work gets done @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 35. Every company began as a startup. Every company began as a startup. Every company began as a startup. Every company began as a startup. Every company began as a startup. Every company began as a startup. Every company began as a startup.Every company began as a startup. Every company began as a startup. Every company began as a startup. Every company began as a startup.
- 37. Innovative Products Innovative Companies ? @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 41. fear scarcity competition urgency machine envy data obsession values-behavior gap @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 42. fear scarcity competition urgency machine envy data obsession values-behavior gap @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 43. fear competition urgency machine envy data obsession values-behavior gap @jessicalawrence #startnext scarcity
- 44. “The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.” - Andrew Carnegie @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 45. fear scarcity competition machine envy data obsession values-behavior gap @jessicalawrence #startnext urgency
- 46. fear scarcity competition urgency machine envy data obsession values-behavior gap @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 47. Machine Human Straightforward Complicated Unemotional Emotional Consistent & predictable Inconsistent & unpredictable Consistent productivity Variable productivity Consistent efficiency Variable efficiency Interchangeable Parts Not so much @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 48. fear scarcity competition urgency machine envy data obsession values-behavior gap @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 50. What’s the ROI of this wellbeing program? @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 51. Jerk?…OK! Unethical?…OK! Overworked?…OK! @jessicalawrence #startnext We use quantitative measures to excuse behavior that is qualitatively destructive.
- 52. fear scarcity competition urgency machine envy data obsession values-behavior gap @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 54. ''We treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves. We do not tolerate abusive or disrespectful treatment. Ruthlessness, callousness and arrogance don't belong here.'' From Enron’s Vision & Values @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 55. behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior behavior behaviorbehavior
- 56. scarcity competition urgency machine envy data obsession values-behavior gap fear @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 63. 7 Principals 1.Work and life are not separate 2.Business is personal 3.Human first 4.Wellbeing isn’t a perk 5.Explore the unquantified life 6.Know your own way 7.Practice presence @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 66. 7 Principals 1.Work and life are not separate 2.Business is personal 3.Human first 4.Wellbeing isn’t a perk 5.Explore the unquantified life 6.Know your own way 7.Practice presence @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 67. Business is human. And personal. #2 @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 68. 7 Principals 1.Work and life are not separate 2.Business is personal 3.Human first 4.Wellbeing isn’t a perk 5.Explore the unquantified life 6.Know your own way 7.Practice presence @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 69. Human FIRST What do we need to thrive? What does wellbeing look like? #3 @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 71. 7 Principals 1.Work and life are not separate 2.Business is personal 3.Human first 4.Wellbeing isn’t a perk 5.Explore the unquantified life 6.Know your own way 7.Practice presence @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 72. wellbeing = perk wellbeing = human right @jessicalawrence #startnext #4
- 73. P E R M A Positive Emotion Engagement Relationships Meaning Accomplishment Martin Seligman’s model of wellbeing… @jessicalawrence #startnext #4 cont.
- 74. 7 Principals 1.Work and life are not separate 2.Business is personal 3.Human first 4.Wellbeing isn’t a perk 5.Explore the unquantified life 6.Know your own way 7.Practice presence @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 76. “Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” @jessicalawrence #startnext - Robert F. Kennedy
- 77. #5 cont @jessicalawrence #startnext Our goal should not be to become more like machines, but to become more like ourselves.
- 78. 7 Principals 1.Work and life are not separate 2.Business is personal 3.Human first 4.Wellbeing isn’t a perk 5.Explore the unquantified life 6.Know your own way 7.Practice presence @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 82. Heroes to match your values #6 cont. @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 84. #6 cont. Carol Dweck Martin Seligman Parker Palmer Susan Cain Tina Roth Eisenberg
- 85. #6 cont.
- 86. #6 cont.
- 89. 7 Principals 1.Work and life are not separate 2.Business is personal 3.Human first 4.Wellbeing isn’t a perk 5.Explore the unquantified life 6.Know your own way 7.Practice presence @jessicalawrence #startnext
- 90. “…that know my presence as something far different than my performance.” - Courtney E. Martin Photo by Johanna Loock
- 92. - Evgeny Morozov, The New Republic “Hopefully, these movements will then articulate alternative practices, instructions, and designs. If it takes an act of unplugging to figure out how to do it, let’s disconnect indeed. But let us not do it for the sake of reconnecting on the very same terms as before”
- 93. How we work isn’t a law of nature.
- 94. We have the power to CHANGE them.
- 95. And that is what tech startups should be doing next.