Radically Open

 

There are times when writing a response is the appropriate action… and times when reading appropriate action is the right response. That’s a fancy English teachers way of saying I haven’t had much time to write anything this month, but here is one of the best articles I’ve read in a while about the future of education, jobs, and being open to change:

https://dupress.deloitte.com/dup-us-en/deloitte-review/issue-21/tom-friedman-interview-jobs-learning-future-of-work.html?id=dup-us-en:2sm:3tw:4dup_gl:5eng:6dup

4 thoughts on “Radically Open

  1. @edaigle Love this quote as it explains so nicely the ethos of why C21 is so open. @gnichols

    “when we move into a world of flows, and the flows are the source of strategic advantage where you extract value, and the flows are getting faster—all the phenomena that John [Hagel] writes about—it seems to me that rule number one is you want to be radically open. And that’s a really hard sell right now, because it feels so counterintuitive, and everyone’s putting up walls right when you want to be, actually, radically open. Why do you want to be radically open? Because you’ll get more flows; you’ll get the signals first, and you will attract more flow-minded people, which I would call high-IQ risk-takers. That’s from a country point of view, but I have to believe that’s also right from a company point of view: that you want to be plugged into as many discussions, as many places, and as many flow generators as possible, because you’ll simply get the signals first in order to understand where the work of the future is coming from.”

  2. Hey @jmedved,

    I agree. I really love some of the “soundbytes” in this article. You could frame entire workshops around the concept of Radical Openness or Moving Into a World of Flows. Very much what Cohort21 has been about since its inception… embracing technology without erasing the essential self.

  3. For me C21 is about intentionally putting myself in the middle of “flows”. So many ideas to be exposed to that….”that you want to be plugged into as many discussions, as many places, and as many flow generators as possible, because you’ll simply get the signals first in order to understand where the work of the future is coming from.”

  4. Personally, I liked this one: “If you have a challenge that’s posed to you, why in the world would you limit yourself simply to the talent within your own company?” That, to me, explains why Cohort 21 was able to make that leap away from viewing each other as competitor schools…

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