# Humanity Works  ## Metadata - Author: [[Alexandra Levit]] - Full Title: Humanity Works - Category: #books ## Highlights - The alternative is what I call ‘The Futurist Mindset’, and it’s so simple and intuitive that we forget how true it is: we create our future. ([Location 327](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=327)) - along the way. And that’s exactly what we’re going to do here. The following nine chapters will explore the demographics, technological advances, work structures, organizational priorities, leadership models, individual career paths and human roles coming to fruition in the immediate years to come. ([Location 404](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=404)) - Leveraging global talent pools carries other risks. Not all education is created equal, and cultural differences sometimes play more of a role than we’d like. Although multicultural organizations and their array of diverse experiences often allow for greater creativity and innovation, they may also breed communication problems. A ‘glocal’ approach, in which a company hires local employees who also understand the organization’s larger market, is essential ([Location 702](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=702)) - While the millennials have become a majority of the global workforce, the baby boomers have reached retirement age doing the kinds of things that enable them work fewer hours and remain active using their talents. Despite falling fertility rates, the population in industrialized nations will be buoyed in great part by immigration. Meanwhile, population in the developing world is exploding due to advances in modern medicines and improvements in living standards. Organizations can contend with labour shortages and geographic skills mismatches by evaluating future labour market conditions by occupation and location. Target previously untapped pools of workers including new immigrants, older workers delaying retirement and discouraged or underemployed workers. Since certain jobs and locations will experience more significant shortages than others, be flexible in your hiring policies. We are moving from a talent ownership mindset to a talent attraction mindset, which can be supported with an external, global and technology-based talent strategy. The most pressing issue related to accessing global talent pools involves migration policies and processes that obstruct the timely, predictable and flexible access to talent. ([Location 734](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=734)) - ‘Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power – the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments – what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power’ (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014). ([Location 791](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=791)) - Google is presently hard at work creating a MasterBot that will be the mother of all personal bots we’ve seen so far. The MasterBot will be the central hub of your digital presence, keeping all of your information and data in one place and summoning services from other bots when needed. ([Location 902](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=902)) - ‘The combination of machine-driven classification enhanced by human correction, on the other hand, provides a clear path forward in acceptable accuracy’ (Oppenheimer, 2017). ([Location 956](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=956)) - ‘Effective production requires both machine and human inputs, and the value of the human inputs will grow, not shrink, as the power of machines increases’ (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014). ([Location 965](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=965)) - Ned Block, consciousness is divided into two categories (Block, 1995): access consciousness – the ability to access information about our interior lives; and phenomenal consciousness – the ability to process discrete and subjective experiences. ([Location 1020](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=1020)) - Note: Dreams mostly but not all brain awareness - Erica proves her human value every day by leveraging the unique human skills of leadership and teaming, interpersonal sensitivity, creativity and innovation, judgement and intuitive problem-solving. ([Location 1131](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=1131)) - The Susskinds proposed that in an environment where clients will pay for output rather than input, for the value delivered versus the output expended, a lot of professional work will move from craft, to standardization, and then eventually to systemization. ([Location 1157](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=1157)) - three categories of human jobs that will facilitate the use of AI in the business world: trainers, explainers and sustainers. ([Location 1177](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=1177)) - The popular, private education method founded by Maria Montessori in the early 20th century teaches children to follow their curiosity rather than direct instructions. And even in other types of schools, the flipped classroom is taking hold. Using this method, children use digital resources to master a subject on their own, and the instructor facilitates a discussion afterwards. In this way, children can learn at their own pace and focus on the material that promotes the most interest and utility. ([Location 1492](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=1492)) ## New highlights added October 2, 2023 at 10:45 PM - This chapter will explore others, focusing on co-working, flextime, and virtual teaming and swarms – as well as the infusion of remote access technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality and telepresence. ([Location 1621](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=1621)) - In the late 1790s, American statesman Thomas Paine called for a universal payment of £15 per year to all his countrymen in exchange for the right to hold private property (back when the British pound was still used as currency in the United States). ([Location 2186](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=2186)) - ‘We should spend less time on tasks that could be automated and more time on issues that are insufficiently addressed: fighting climate change, exploring space, preventing the next global pandemic,’ he said. ‘With a basic income, you’ll have 100 per cent of your time available to you and innovation will flourish’ (Flowers, 2016). ([Location 2194](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=2194)) - ‘The utopian view is that of flourishing creativity and freedom, and more social good; the dystopian view is one of mass idleness, diminished civic pride and rampant loneliness and boredom,’ wrote the Future Hunters. ‘The utopian is that people might spend more time caring for their families and communities, and pride would come from relationships rather than from careers. The dystopian is that jealousy would persevere, even in an economy of abundance’ (The Future Hunters, 2016). Which do you believe? ([Location 2226](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=2226)) ## New highlights added October 9, 2023 at 7:37 PM - Collaborate (Clan)’ culture: ([Location 2657](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=2657)) - Create (Adhocracy)’ culture: ([Location 2660](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=2660)) - Control (Hierarchy)’ culture: ([Location 2663](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=2663)) - Compete (Market)’ culture: ([Location 2666](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=2666)) - Zappos workers are more likely to expand their skillsets and acquire cross-functional expertise. The company even institutionalized this idea with the launch of the Role Marketplace, an internal job board that lists specific tasks other teams need completed (along with their proposed time commitments). ([Location 3289](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HQKQSZZ&location=3289))