Export Prepared For Charlie Coode

Produced For Charlie Coode : Wed, February 17, 2021

Sometimes you find yourself sending very similar information and links to different people - over and over again. So I’m fixing that. Back in the early days of the web, people used to publish links to stuff they found interesting. Sometimes it actually was. The challenge is that the links got long and unmanageable - who has the time? PLUS, just because I am interested - doesn’t mean that you automatically are. This page is a modern version of that principle and is ‘close to’ automatically generated as a result of our conversation.

The information on this page lies at the intersection of three things.

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3 Notes

1. If I missed anything - let me know.
2. I have personal connections with most of the companies and people listed. if you would like an introduction - let me know.
3. This is a living document, I might occasionally update it and will let you know if I do. But also - you can comment on it. If you right click on any part of the doc - a small plus sign will appear to the right. Click on that and comment away!

🔗 Two Links To My World

• Gateway to People First (WIP)
• Gateway to John Philpin (WIP)

🕸️ Web Sites To Poke Around

• Cognitive Edge
  • Founder / Thought Leader : Dave Snowden
  • A 2007 HBR Article about Cynefin
• 4 Groups
  • Founder / Thought Leader : Bruce Lewin
  • 4 Groups is “a process that enables managers and executives to understand the link between behaviour and performance in the workplace.”
• Gaping Void
  • Founder : Hugh McLeod
  • CEO : Jason Korman

📚 Books To Read

• The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism
  • Shoshana Zubnoff

📻 Podcasts To Listen To

• Freakanomics with Jeff Immelt

💭 People First Thought Leaders

These links go to their personal web sites, best way of grokking the thinking.

• Doug Rushkoff
• Cal Newport

We have many partners all over the world. A selection that are relevant to our conversation.

• Make Meaningful Work : Hong Kong
• DigLife : UK : “Cooperating at Global Scale is Humanity’s Primary Challenge”
• Digi.me : A company I consider to be at the vanguard of personal data management and the emerging intention economy.

🔗 Links Resonating Right Now

Change Cadet.Home Page

The humane world of Ursula Franklin, a scientist who wanted us to question technology | CBC Radio

🗣 Relevant Tenets Of People First

I literally have hundreds. These are a few that came to mind as we were talking today.

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📬 Contact Information

John Philpin - Founder, People First - john@peoplefirst.vision

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Will AI Benefit People - Or Corporations?

Will AI Benefit Us All?

Small Businesses in New Zealand - And Elsewhere.

The particular comment I was responding to was in a private group hosted in New Zealand - hence the opening paragraph. BUT - I think it pertains to any country. In that post, this link was provided — I think New Zealand has more businesses (and hence ‘small’ businesses) per capita than pretty much any New Zealand just doesn’t have the people to support it.

BUT - when you leave New Zealand … there has been something happening for a while now. I will try to discover the article I wrote a while back ….

Here’s the nub … In the US (but I am pretty sure this applies to most countries) 50 to 60 years ago, big employers like GM and GE were the dominant market cap companies on the financial exchanges. Not entirely un-coincidentally, they were also the companies that employed the most people. Fast forward to today … the market caps of the biggest companies are an order of magnitude higher than the ones back then and the number of people they employ is an order of magnitude less. Meanwhile the population of America has doubled? Tripled?

So where are all those people now working? Answer small … or at least smallER businesses.

Some of this has been achieved by improved efficiencies … we no longer need banks of people directing calls, typing up documents, manufacturing cars …. But also … since the 70s there has been a steady drip of those organizations getting those people ‘off the books’ .. why employ people if you can off shore, outsource, automate processes … and the new one - use AI. The result is that more and more people are in smaller and smaller businesses but often working in service to a larger organization.

Quite simply - If I am building a house (actually - or metaphorically) .. do I employ everyone full time … or contract with the right resources at the right time to get the job done?

Tongue in cheek .. but for the longest time, I have had this vision of the ideal company comprising a single individual with ‘agents’ managing their ‘virtual supply chain’ that they need to deliver value to their customers.

This thought informs the graphic below - ‘The Business Equation’ - and is foundational thinking in the People First domain.

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