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How One Common Parenting Frustration Was the Seed For Profound Culture Change

Paul Estes is the author of the book Gig Mindset. He led the charge a while back within Microsoft, bringing programs to support and facilitate working with an on-demand workforce for Microsoft itself and Microsoft clients. John Winsor recently checked it with Paul about how he shifted his mindset and created the momentum to not only change his own life, but to change how an entire company does business. Here are some of the insights he shared.

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John Winsor
Jan 23, 2020

Is Your Future Of Work Jargon Confusing Your Sales Prospects? Here’s How To Gain More Traction

Those of you in the Future of Work space have not only identified a new industry or category that you and your company can sell into, but you’ve also identified a product or a service that serves a key market need, and solves the most prickly pain points of important players.

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John Winsor
Jan 21, 2020

4 Revolutionary Shifts That Will Change the Way We Work

What does the future of work look like? It doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict based on trends that have developed over the last couple decades: Businesses staffed almost entirely by freelancers. Fortune 500 companies using open-source crowd platforms to innovate. AI solving some of the world’s trickiest challenges.

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John Winsor
Dec 03, 2019

Is It A Freelance-Employee Tug O’ War At Work? It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way.

Open models are an exciting part of the future of work and innovation. Every year, more and more companies are choosing open models for innovation, blending freelance with in-house talent. But that transition can be tricky for traditional employees.

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John Winsor
Nov 18, 2019

4 Steps to Success: Get IP, Legal, and Others To Support Your New Open Talent Strategy

Developing and implementing an open talent strategy—one that engages contract freelancers in a structured way within your company—is an exciting step that puts organizations out front of innovation. But it can feel like shaky territory for some parts of businesses, notably IP, legal, and other key stakeholders whose job it is to uphold the business’s integrity while pursuing innovation and growth.

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John Winsor
Nov 13, 2019

Is There Anything Open Talent Can’t Solve?

Open talent models are evolving so rapidly, it’s sometimes hard to keep up. Where is open sourcing going and how will that impact the future of work?

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John Winsor
Nov 01, 2019

The Future Of Work Will Be Uniquely Human

As we are propelled into an even-more digital age, companies and employees are both asking: To what degree will AI replace human intelligence and make jobs obsolete? In the inevitable future of AI, what is the outlook for human employees? Neil Jensen, Vice President, Product Strategy, Workday, identifies trends in areas like the future of work. I asked Jensen to share with us the trends he’s seeing in the future-of-work space.

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John Winsor
Oct 21, 2019

Don’t Get Scared–Get Talking. Here’s How To Get Employees Excited To Work With Freelance Talent

My focus on the future of work means that I’m often privy to the inner workings of some of today’s most innovative companies. Moving toward open sourcing and the gig economy comes with its fair share of internal questioning and resistance

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John Winsor
Sep 06, 2019

Four Ways To Prepare For The Future Of Work

Conversation about the future of work is everywhere, but who really knows what that means, and who can help guide us into that future? This is the work I’ve been doing at Open Assembly and also in my role as Executive in Residence at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH).

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John Winsor
Aug 27, 2019

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How One Common Parenting Frustration Was the Seed For Profound Culture Change

Is Your Future Of Work Jargon Confusing Your Sales Prospects? Here’s How To Gain More Traction

4 Revolutionary Shifts That Will Change the Way We Work

Is It A Freelance-Employee Tug O’ War At Work? It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way.

4 Steps to Success: Get IP, Legal, and Others To Support Your New Open Talent Strategy

Is There Anything Open Talent Can’t Solve?

The Future Of Work Will Be Uniquely Human

Don’t Get Scared–Get Talking. Here’s How To Get Employees Excited To Work With Freelance Talent

Four Ways To Prepare For The Future Of Work

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