Cities as a PlatformFuture of Work, Partnerships, and Connecting Community Assets

1. Cities as a Platform
Future of Work, Partnerships, and
Connecting Community Assets

2. Understanding exponential technologies
for the benefit of humanity.

3. Strategies for individuals, organizations,
communities, and countries

4. Career tools for teens, adults, 50+,
and other populations
Schools, non-profits, government,
corporations

5. UNBUNDLING
WORK
UNBUNDLING
THE MIDDLE
CLASS
Strategic Agility
The Future of Performance Management
Hiring & Developing Your Future
Workforce
Courses
U.S. Broadband Coalition
Exponentials
Strategies
Careers

6. Today.
Exponential change
Unbundling industries
New language of work
Strategies for
tomorrow

7. Spoilers.
All that’s inevitable is the pace of change.
We need a new mindset & language for work & learning.
Individuals must find & develop their superpowers (PACE).
Cities must be platforms for their constituents to thrive.

8. Our world is
changing
exponentially.

9. Our world is
changing
exponentially.

13. What’s a linear step?
30 Linear Steps (1, 2, 3, 4, 5…) =

14. What’s a linear step?
30 Linear Steps (1, 2, 3, 4, 5…) = 30 meters

15. What’s an exponential step?
30 Exponential Steps (1, 2, 4, 8, 16…) =

16. What’s an exponential step?
30 Exponential Steps (1, 2, 4, 8, 16…) =
1 billion meters

17. What’s an exponential step?
30 Exponential Steps (1, 2, 4, 8, 16…) =
1 billion meters
26x

18. Singularity University & exponential technologies
Computers and
networks
3D Printing Digital medicine
Artificial intelligence Synthetic biology Nanotechnology
Robotics Blockchain &
Cryptocurrencies
Sensors/Internet of
Things
DISASTER
RESILIENCE
HEALTHENERGY ENVIRONMENT FOOD GOVERNANCE LEARNING PROSPERITY SECURITY SHELTER SPACE WATER

19. Accelerating Exponentials
Computing
+
Machine Learning/AI
+
Image recognition
+
Computer networks
+
Robotics
+
LIDAR
= ?

22. Opnwatr

24. Today.
Exponential change
Unbundling industries
New language of work
Strategies for
tomorrow

26. Advertising
Distributing
Curating
Creating
Producing

28. Advertising
Distributing
Curating
Creating
Producing

29. Advertising
Distributing
Curating
Creating
Producing

34. X

35. X

39. Today.
Exponential change
Unbundling industries
New language of work
Strategies for
tomorrow

42. robots & machine
learning
diversity & inclusion
HR transformation
career decision-making
employee development &
retention
job-search & hiring automation
independent workers & the gig economy
portable
benefits
STEM
pipelines
online community networks
workplace of the future
lifelong learning
AR/VR/MR
universal basic income
future of the organization
two-sided work markets
job clouds

43. Old Rules of Work
Jobs
Employment
One job/one person
Paycheck
Unions
One team/one location
Work
Alternative arrangements
A portfolio of work
Multiple income sources
Platforms & guilds
Remote workers
New Rules of
Work

44. Work is becoming unbundled.

53. What’s Work?

58. We need to speak in the language of
problem-solving and skills.

60. Transferables
Knowledges
Traits

61. Transferables
Knowledges
Traits
“Hard skills” “Soft skills”

65. Unbundled.
At our fingertips.
Just-in-time.
Lifelong.

67. Mild
disinterest Mission
Klutz
Mastery

73. Performance
Fit
Performance
Fit

74. Performance
Fit
Performance
Fit

76. Jobs are becoming unbundled.

77. © 2017

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93. A B
C
D
E F

94. behaviormodel.org
Resources

95. behaviormodel.org
Resources
Wealth
Access
Support
Culture
Self-direction
Reinforcement
Options
Hope
Entrepreneurism
Motivation
Self-knowledge

96. behaviormodel.org
Resources
Wealth
Access
Support
Culture
Self-direction
Reinforcement
Options
Hope
Entrepreneurism
Motivation
Self-knowledge

101. and
Problem-solvers
Adaptive
Creative
Entrepreneurial
who are
and

102. Problem-solvers
Adaptive
Creative
Entrepreneurial
who are
and
and

103. Today.
Exponential change
Unbundling industries
New language of work
Strategies for
tomorrow

104. Strategies.
How can I have meaningful paid work?
Countries
Communities
Organizations
Individuals

105. Strategies.
How can I have the talented people I need?
How can I have meaningful paid work?
Countries
Communities
Organizations
Individuals

106. Strategies.
How can we be a platform for constituents to thrive?
How can I have the talented people I need?
How can I have meaningful paid work?
Countries
Communities
Organizations
Individuals

107. Strategies.
What are the policies & macro issues so all can thrive?
How can we be a platform for constituents to thrive?
How can I have the talented people I need?
How can I have meaningful paid work?
Countries
Communities
Organizations
Individuals

108. Strategies.
Countries
Communities
Organizations
Individuals

109. Stuff You Can Do Tomorrow.
Develop community work & learning strategies.
Career planning for your staff.
Acquire critical skills.
“Future vision” seminars at local colleges.
Take the first step in becoming a platform.

111. How Can a City Be a Platform?

112. How Can a City Be a Platform?

114. Who are the constituents in your communities?

115. economic (commerce, infrastructure, transportation)
social (housing, health, education, recreation, religion)
political (security, stability, equality)

116. Can you agree on the future you want?
Can you update that on an ongoing basis?
Who should be in the tent?
How will you communicate agreements?

117. Inventory
Assess
Prioritize
Design
Identify
Strategize
Narrate
Include
Action
Communicate

118. (narrate) What’s happening?

119. (inventory) Who’s in our ecosystem?

120. (include) What’s the coalition of the willing?

121. (assess) What are our challenges?

122. (prioritize) What are our biggest challenges?

123. (identify) What are we really good at?

124. (design) What solutions can we envision together?

125. (strategize) What can we solve right now?

126. (action) What can we do
right now?

127. Inventory
Assess
Prioritize
Design
Identify
Strategize
Narrate
Include
Action
Communicate

129. 1. Act local first – Choose local
and strengthen your
community.
2. Prioritize equity – Activate
and align for an economy that
works for all.
3. Regenerate soil and nature –
Use business to restore natural
environments.
4. Accelerate collaboration –
Build shared infrastructure to
advance cooperation.
5. Share ownership – Distribute
ownership to create healthier
communities.
6. Shift capital – Keep more
money in your community.
7. Cocreate policy – Engage all
stakeholders in
decisionmaking.
8. Cultivate connection –
Choose connection in your
business and your community.

130. Innovation Collective

134. ● Build Civic Capacity and Talent
● For legacy cities, charting a path forward will require strong leaders to envision and implement necessary changes. South Bend IN
has a fellowship program that places highly skilled recent graduates in management-level positions in the private and public sector.
● Encourage a Shared Public-and-Private-Sector Vision
● Private-sector leaders must also “own the problem” of urban revitalization and work collaboratively with the public sector. In
Lancaster PA a group of private-sector leaders stepped in to create and implement a new economic development plan that
reimagined the city as a tourist hub.
● Expand Opportunities for Low-Income Workers
● Each city must invest in creating greater access to opportunity for all its residents. Lima OH has created an umbrella organization to
coordinate workforce development efforts and ensure that residents are sufficiently trained for available jobs.
● Build on an Authentic Sense of Place
● Increasingly, highly skilled workers choose where they want to live before searching for a job in that place. Bethlehem PA
converted a closed steel plant into an arts & cultural campus, a signature draw both for local residents and outside visitors.
● Focus Regional Efforts on Rebuilding a Strong Downtown
● Strong, vibrant downtowns are a critical asset for the entire regional economy. The Syracuse NY chamber of commerce and the
state have prioritized downtown revitalization efforts to help create jobs and attract talented workers.
● Engage in Community and Strategic Planning
● Community-wide planning can help identify how to allocate limited resources while laying the groundwork for further investment.
Grand Rapids MI encourages neighborhoods to create and maintain community plans that help guide investment when new
development is set to occur.
● Stabilize Distressed Neighborhoods
● Youngstown OH has used data to pinpoint struggling neighborhoods and then leveraged a variety of financial resources to triage
housing in poor condition.
● Strategically Leverage State Policies
● Some states have programs that target resources to cities based on their size or level of economic distress, while others focus on
removing barriers to market development. Local communities can absorb outside resources best when local leaders carefully guide
implementation of state policies to align with local goals and to spur additional investment.
Revitalizing America’s
Smaller Legacy Cities

135. Exponential change
Unbundling industries
New language of work
Strategies for
tomorrow

136. What are your city’s superpowers?

137. OTHER STUFF.

138. Co-working facilities Invest in up-skilling

139. Reduce licensingNano-degreesIncrease market signals

140. Tax credits for training Learning bank accounts Schools teach PACE

141. “xShips” - interns, apprentices Remote workers

142. “Learn-fare”Homeless job-search trainingGig platforms