BEYOND“HIRE TO RETIRE”

Rethinking the Employee Relationship

“People are our most valuable resource.”- Employee Handbook, page 1

BEYOND“HIRE TO RETIRE”

Rethinking the Employee Relationship“Yeah, right.”

COMPETITORS

“We compete against market transitions, not competitors. Product

transitions used to take five to seven years; now they take one or two.”

- John Chambers, Cisco

COMPETITORS CHANGE

CABS

“If transportation technology was moving

along as fast as microprocessors, I’d get in a cab and be in Tokyo

in 30 seconds.”- W. Daniel Hillis

CABS UBER

UBER

“Uber (valued at $60B) is the ultimate test of

whether the last eight years of venture

investment in Silicon Valley was worthwhile.”

- Matt Rosoff, Business Insider

UBER SELF-DRIVING CARS

NURSE (1996)

“One of the duties in providing reasonable care is fulfilled by a nurse who carries out the orders of the attending physician.”

- American Medical Association

NURSE (1996) NURSE (2016)

KNOWLEDGE WORKER

“Increasing the productivity of

knowledge workers is the most important

contribution management needs to

make in the 21st century.”- Peter Drucker

KNOWLEDGE WORKER A.I.

LIFETIME EMPLOYMENT

"We want talented critical thinkers with an entrepreneurial spirit who comply with our hierarchical structure and stay fiercely loyal until we fire them.”

- anonymous

LIFETIME EMPLOYMENT GIG ECONOMY

JOB

n. A group of homogeneous tasks

related by similarity of functions performed

by an employee in exchange for pay.

- BusinessDictionary.com

JOB WORK

ROUTINES

“Only 38% of all companies and 24% of large companies (50K+

employees) are functionally organized”

- Deloitte 2016

ROUTINES CHALLENGES

RELIABILEn. Giving the same result

on successive trials- Merriam-Webster

RELIABILITY RESULTS

CO-WORKERSWill you please be

my best friend at work?

CO-WORKERS CO-WORKING

SUPERVISORS

According to a new Gallup study, 50% of the

7,200 adults surveyed left a job “to get away from

their manager.”- Benjamin Snyder, Fortune

SUPERVISORS COLLABORATORS

PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

“Leading organizations are scrapping the annual

evaluation cycle and replacing it with ongoing feedback and coaching designed to promote continuous employee

development.”- Lisa Barry, Deloitte

PERFORMANCE REVIEWS RECOMMENDATIONS

RETENTIONn. The act of keeping

someone or something.- Merriam-Webster

RETENTION RELATIONSHIP

TRAITORS

(Attrition Risk software) evaluates e-mails and other

communications using behavioral analysis

techniques developed by the FBI… Red flags could include “late rent” and

“medical bills.”- Dune Lawrence, Bloomberg

TRAITORS ALUMNI

RETIREMENT

n. The period after you have permanently

stopped your job or profession.

- Merriam-Webster

RETIREMENT WORK-LIFE HARMONY

JOBSROUTINES

RELIABILITYCO-WORKERSSUPERVISORS

PERFORMANCE REVIEWSRETENTIONTRAITORS

RETIREMENT

WORKCHALLENGES

RESULTSCO-WORKING

COLLABORATORSRECOMMENDATIONS

RELATIONSHIPALUMNI

WORK-LIFE HARMONY

THANK YOU!

Sean Kearney is an award-winning thought leader specializing in learning, leadership, human performance and collaboration in distributed social networks. Scifi legend William Gibson once described his work as “cheap A.I.”

Sean's work has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, Guardian UK and Computer World. Past clients include AT&T, Best Buy, IBM, Time Warner Cable, and the US Army.

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