Takewaways from Steve Sammartino's World of Work

Top takeaways from breakfast with Steve

at the Oct 2015 Randstad Executive Briefing

@SAMMARTINO WORLD OF WORK

… superseded

by street art

in laneways

NGV is no longer

the most widely

visited gallery

in Melbourne…


For 200 years our education

system was designed to

prepare factory workers

- follow rules, sit still

for 8 hours


Formal education can't keep

up with the pace of change


Silicon Valley doesn't ask for

your CV or degrees, they ask

what have you made


It used to be hard to

make stuff.

Now it's hard to

connect people.


Time at the top of an

industry is shrinking

iTunes was only at

the top for 8 years


Pace of technology change

is so fast that you are only

ever 10 minutes behind

Never been easier to adapt


Apple has 800,000 developers

via the App Store


The power of the cloud

Automattic runs

23% of the Internet

and they don't

have an office


Funding the dissidents…

The brief at Walmart's

innovation lab?

Put Walmart out of business


The future is underpinned

by technology, but the

revolution is all about

human connection


The role of government in

innovation?

Regulate within reason,

without stifling


There won't be any car

parking in 10 years.

We'll send our driverless cars

home, or out to work.


In thirty years we

won't have CBD's,

we'll have central

relaxation districts

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