crossing boundaries 5: the end of the job ethos: blending professional and private activity
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Fifth in our series, Crossing Boundaries: Implications for the Content Industries, for Adobe. Link to the full webinar recording is here: http://adobe.ly/18ESQDw Full connectivity, anywhere at any time, is changing our perception of the boundaries between professional and private life. Perhaps we are entering an era where terms such as “job, professional life, and private life” will be replaced by a simple, continuous concept such as “activities.”TRANSCRIPT
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Crossing Boundaries: Implications for the Content Industries
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The End of the Job Ethos: Blending Professional and Private AcAvity
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Integrated Life Strategies Thank you for working with us!
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Everyone needs to have the means to live
Tea break at work: personal or professional activity?
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Can we really separate personal and professional skills?
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The Three Eights
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Hours in the Day
Sleep
Work
Personal Life
This “classic” way to organize our lives has become pure myth!
Life is a Continuum
Our Waking Hours: Theory
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Our Waking Hours: Practice
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Painting Our Personal Stories
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Generalists and lifelong learning across many disciplines are key to the new "Age of ConnecAon.“ Arnold Beekes,
What do you noAce first?
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Specialist or Generalist?
EvoluAon has created highly specialized species that occupy disAnct ecological niches.
What Does an Ant on a Brick Wall Know About the Wall?
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EvoluAon has created highly specialized species that occupy disAnct ecological niches.
The human mind tends naturally to surf over wide areas of interest, to be the integrator of nature’s specializaAon: there is only one human species, but many human cultures. (Jorge Wagensberg)
What Does an Ant on a Brick Wall Know About the Wall?
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Generalization vs. Specialization
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“A lifelong career in one domain is an illusion”. Arnold Beekes from Amersfoort, The Netherlands
“LifeAme employment has gone.
LifeAme learning has replaced it.”.
Arnold Beekes
from Amersfoort, The Netherlands
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• The specializaAon imposed by the industrial revoluAon is coming to an end; highly specialized tasks are being taken over more and more by automatons and computers. The future for Human acAvity is in complex, generalized, conceptual thinking (OECD Study, 2003)
Organizing Fragmented Reality is Conceptual CategorizaAon, organizaAon, planning or interpreAng reality is a process of dematerializaAon and culture building.
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Canada, 1972
• Canadian autoworkers’ union campaigns, not for higher salaries, but for “dignity on the assembly line.”
• Incumbent Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau makes an elecAon speech in which he says we need to end the “work ethic.”
• Trudeau’s Liberals almost lose the elecAon – are returned with a minority government.
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We need to work – we need activity. Do we need a job?
“We must do away with the absolutely specious no=on that everybody has to earn a living...The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living. “
-‐R. Buckminster Fuller (1970)
Employment protection?
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Buckminster Fuller, in "The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-‐In" by Elizabeth Barlow in New York Magazine (30 March 1970), p. 30
Did Thomas Edi
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Or did he j
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Beethoven, Michelangelo, Picasso, Did they have a job? Or did they just work?
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Concept of private and public “Collective Space”
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Job as a linguistic concept
Work Job Task AcAvity
Labour Profession Employment
Experience
Post
Trabajo Tarea
Faena
AcAvidad
Profesión
Experiencia
Empleo Labor
Puesto
“Wealth is our organized capability to cope
effectively with the environment in sustaining
our healthy regeneration and decreasing both
the physical and metaphysical restrictions of
the forward days of our lives.” -R. Buckminster Fuller, 1963
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Virtual Wealth
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Building Added Value
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-‐ CollaboraAve tools -‐ Team building -‐ Leadership training -‐ Project management
-‐ Integrated media -‐ Learning communiAes -‐ Value communicaAon -‐ CommunicaAon plan
-‐ Generalists and Specialists -‐ InteracAon Clients and Producers -‐ Diversity, Global Values
Contribution to Society
• As we actualize ourselves, we become masters of some subjects, the go-‐to source for informaAon.
• As the go-‐to source for informaAon, we enrich the community
• As we acquire new knowledge, we actualize ourselves.
Change Ethos: Searching for What?
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Aha! Moments
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• Where? • When? • How? • Whom with?
Can you remember a deep learning moment?
Is it a Job or Community Service?
• Ergonomic design • Ecological efficiency • Sustainable development
• Great Customer Experience
• Affordability • Accessibility
The New Blending: The End of the Job Ethos
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Study: Editions Tissot / Opinionway
Factors promoAng friendship Aes in enterprises
Yes, o1en
Facilitate signing of contracts or
commercial success
Facilitate career development
Can friendship promote business and career?
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The Things To Do
• The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done… that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you...
– Buckminster Fuller, from a leGer to a 10 year old boy who had inquired in a leGer as to whether Fuller was a "doer" or a "thinker” (16 February 1970)
Not jobs, not home life, just ac>vi>es!
A CriAcal Point on a CriAcal Path
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Virtual identities
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Pubic
Private
Virtual environment Physical environment
Changing paradigms
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Everyone has three lives:
A public life A private life And a secret life
Changing paradigms
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Everyone has three lives:
A public life A private life And a secret life
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I input very liBle informaAon when I first signed up but yet, Facebook was able to link me up with people I’d gone to primary school with. I found it very unseBling.
I had to shut down my old blog once because some creep started to “stalk” me in real life – he got my personal info just with an email address and even went to the extent of harassing my friends
I wish I had been wiser when I started my first blog when I was thirteen. It was a private Livejournal, my online diary. I’m sAll in touch with a couple of people who read my diary for 5+ years and I don’t even dare to read up on my past myself because it’s embarrassing.
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Integrated Life Strategies
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• Any Ame, any place • Self-‐paced, Autonomous • Self-‐MoAvated, Raising awareness • AdaptaAve producAon • Building knowledge and pracAce • Focused on tasks • AuthenAcity • Credibility
Lifelong Project
“Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustra=on of the fact that we can fully understand a connec=on though we can only speak of it in images and parables.”
-‐Werner Heisenberg
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THANK YOU
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