How's the energy in the room, how are you guys doing apologies for that?
More power. Okay. Let's make you a little bit. Hopefully, let's see whether you have some humor and you know, it's hot
You probably just had lunch. Can I ask all of you to put up your hands if?
Somebody feels uncomfortable by human touch don't participate but put up your hands. Come on people and you
turn to the person on your left if you have one or before in front and you give them a little massage a
Little afternoon massage wake up massage. Come on
meet some new people
Don't be shy. Oh, really? Oh
Come on, so many so many lonely people over there and over there. All right, we turn around and we return the love
We return the love. Oh
All right, good, I
Try to make some new connections. Oh, I thought this was about
Ecosystem building here. All right, and I want to spend my few minutes not to tell you about my organization
I also don't want to tell you about products
I don't want to tell you about how great I am or how great we are or all the things we're doing all the money
That we have or all the amazing customers and partners that we have
Instead. I want to use a couple of minutes of your time to talk about something which I think is a really big
misconception and dust problem
When we think about how we build the future of our economies
namely
How we help the people in it?
how we help all of us how we help adults to actually deal with this tremendous change that we're all facing and
Wherever things right now that this is a boring topic
Then I invite you to go fifteen
kilometers outside where you are right now and you're going to be in a place where the majority of the people has voted for the
neo-fascists in the last European elections
All right
So the question of how do we deal with change and how can we be confident about our future?
Is I believe a really important question for all of us no matter whether you're an entrepreneur and an investor
or somebody running a big business
So I'll tell you about that misconception in a moment, but let me just give you a brief baseline so you know
Never before and it's just really important
I think to remember never before in the history of the world have individual people irrespective of their background
Had such tremendous power to impact the world
Right many of you are disruptors to larger more powerful
Businesses if you think what greater is doing right now, that would not have been possible 50 years ago
It's really something absolutely new
but at the same time
The world is really messy and we're said, you know, I don't know how many of you have kids here
Do you think that you know, I did sort of the Oxford and Great degrees if I sent my daughter talks?
What do I believe that she'll be set for life? Oh
no, she won't I
Don't know how you think about preparing your kids. It's a messy world to make sense of
So, how do we deal with this? If we say there's so much disruption. There's so much change. How can we
Create a world in which we can be
Successful and it will be around in a couple of hundred years still in the way that we wanted maybe
This is where the big misconception comes in and I think that's a misconception that also drives 16 billion dollar of investments in EdTech
The conception is in order to develop people. I need to give them new skills
And if I'm a bit funky maybe some new mindsets
So that's why I'm spending my money on building
businesses that deliver content and that are engaging
But the real problem is that the way we're living and working is changing so dramatically
No matter in which industry and we're operating in I think 12 different industries right now no matter in which industry you are
There's less work and execution and more work and complex problem solving if you want to make it simple as just more project work
So that means no matter whether you're a freelancer or you're employed or you're a leader
The question becomes how do you allocate resources how do you allocate your resources? How do you allocate your people's resources and
the matrix structure
is
Not fit for that
It wasn't built for that the matrix structure and management was built for executing the hell out of something and be reeling efficient about it
But not to be a quick fast complex problem-solving organization
so it means if you want to think about
Lifelong learning if you want to think about air tech then for me the big recommendation isn't a thought that I wanted to share with
you and if you like discuss after is
You need to think about how do you allocate resources better? And
The way we're doing that at the due school is on the basis of two hypotheses. The first hypothesis is
actually based on stable data points of
expertise and passion
You can better allocate people than by putting them in a structure
I'm in marketing. I'm in sales. Oh, I'm actually a leader. I'm in management. Yeah
But you need to bring them together around stuff that they really want to work on and it's the second hypothesis
Employees that get to pick and choose what they work on based on their passion expertise
Much more likely to stick with the company
Now you might say up till now altruism. I'm really bored and this after lunch get rid of this guy
The problem is a lot of people are talking about it, but very few people are actually able to do it properly. So
that means what what it means in practice is you need to set up a system a
Platform a tool that allows you to quickly actually post
Problems challenges opportunities projects and match them with the right people in your organization
Give them the opportunity to partake and then actually realize that problem
Probably today and there's some wonderful research that I hope most of you know
Nobody has all the expertise in-house. So I also need people from the outside how so how do I get those involved, right?
So that means in a nutshell if you want to think about lifelong learning
think about how you bring people together around the stuff that they really care about and that creates value for you as an
organization or as a leader and
If you found a way to do that
then you can start thinking about
that learning has to be hands-on because if I just
Get all my people on degreed and I make them sort of read stuff for 30 minutes every morning
That's not going to deliver a value to them or others. I
Believe so it needs to be hands-on
the second one is that
you need to start to bring people together about stuff that they jointly want to engage around because that will actually make
stuff sink in if they built
Communities and networks and a third one. What I've just said is I truly believe
the only way
today to
transform a large corporate
if you're not able to
Mobilise its employees help them to work together differently and empower them not separately
But within the context of what they actually do
You can do as many strategy projects as you like you can have as many consultants in the door as you like
You can have as much VC funding as you like
you're not going to make the turn that is needed to become so agile that you can continuously adapt in the future and
By the way, all of this
I've not been around yesterday and today a little bit
What I'm really missing to be honest is how we connect what we're doing here all of us
With the problems that the world is facing out there and I think if you think about how we're building the future of our economy
How we're building the future of our businesses. How do we make our startup successful?
Then we need to think about the people in it
What their purpose is and how we can help them succeed with the way that they want to shape their community?
Thank you very much, and I hope you have a great rest of the day game. Yeah, bye
you
