What is the bold new breed? Why is it important?
Listen to this episode to discover gig mindsetters (8:36)
“Thank you for giving me an identity.”
The Bold New Breed of employee is driven by the gig mindset. The gig mindset is a way of thinking and behaving like freelancers and independent gig workers. Except, the gig mindsetters are employees inside organizations.
They are a NEW Breed because they work differently from traditional workers.
They are a BOLD new breed, because they come up against management resistance.
When I talked about gig mindsetters in conference keynotes, I had these reactions from people in the audience:
“You’re the first person to understand me.”
“Now I know why I have the problems I have at work.”
“Thank you for giving me an identity.”
Why these reactions?
Gig mindsetters make management nervous, and feel threatened. They trigger strong reactions including getting sidelined or reprimanded. Three underlying issues:
- Gigmindsetters are here to stay. They make up a bottom-up movement emerging slowly in organizations around the world.
- They network intensively, cross boundaries and constantly scan the horizon. They detect early signs of change, take initiatives, operate with high autonomy and work to solve problems when they see them.
- But management behaviors have been stuck in a control and command mindset over several years.
2015 was a turning point for the gig mindset.
Topics
- Quick overview
- How the research started
- 2015 – the year things began to change
- Difficulties and resistance
About
The gig mindset story in this podcast and the book The Gig Mindset Advantage are based on 10 years of annual, global surveys about “the organization in the digital age”, and 2 years of research dedicated to the gig mindset.
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1 – What is the bold new breed? Why is it important?
2 – The gig mindset and internal civil disobedience
3 – Willful blindness: what and why?
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7 – How can you make learning come alive? Dany De Grave from Sanofi Pasteur
8 – Florence Devouard on a mission for open knowledge
9 – Chris Labonté, believer in the long life of books, F.1
10 – Knowledge management means people management, Raúl Cano, ESO
11 – Surge capacity in our DNA for operations and knowledge, Robin Vincent-Smith
12 – Waysfinding, complexity and opening spaces, Sonja Blignaut
13 – Orchestrating space to create competitive advantage, Guillaume Alvarez
14. Exercising the decision-making muscle, Grégoire Charp-Civatte
15. Leading from the heart, a spiritual journey with a backpack, Marie Reig Florensa
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