This document discusses how exponential technologies will disrupt jobs, organizations, and schools. It suggests that exponentials will evaporate the middle class by unbundling industries and work. This will lead to a portfolio approach to work with more fluid boundaries between work, leisure and learning. Problem-solvers of the future will need to be adaptive, creative and entrepreneurial to succeed in dynamic two-sided work markets facilitated by new platforms and models like co-working spaces.

1. Coaching &
the (Near) Future of Work
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2. Gary A. Bolles
gbolles@gmail.com
Exponentials
Strategies Careers

3. Gary A. Bolles
gbolles.com
gbolles@gmail.com
Exponentials
Strategies Careers
UNBUNDLING
WORK
UNBUNDLING
THE MIDDLE
CLASS
Strategic Agility
The Future of Performance Management
Hiring & Developing Your Future
Workforce

4. I N D I V I D U A L S O R G A N I Z A T I O N S
C O M M U N I T I E SC O U N T R I E S

8. What if we disrupted…

9. What if we disrupted…
Jobs?

10. What if we disrupted…
Jobs?
The organization?

11. What if we disrupted…
Jobs?
The organization?
Schools?

12. What if we disrupted…
Jobs?
The organization?
Schools?
Then…

13. What if we disrupted…
Jobs?
The organization?
Schools?
Then…
What’s the work of a coach?

15. Computers and
networks
3D Printing Digital medicine
Artificial intelligence Synthetic biology Nanotechnology
Robotics Blockchain &
Cryptocurrencies
Sensors/Internet of
Things
DISASTER
RESILIENCE
HEALTHENERGY ENVIRONMENT FOOD GOVERNANCE LEARNING PROSPERITY SECURITY SHELTER SPACE WATER
Let’s talk about exponentials.

16. Let’s talk about
exponentials.

17. Let’s talk about
exponentials.
Exponentials
unbundle
industries.

19. Advertising
Distributing
Curating
Creating
Producing
Vertical Integration

20. Advertising
Distributing
Curating
Creating
Producing

21. Advertising
Distributing
Curating
Creating
Producing

22. Advertising
Distributing
Curating
Creating
Producing

23. Advertising
Distributing
Curating
Creating
Producing

24. How do exponentials affect these industries?

25. Exponentials evaporate the middle.

26. Large, High-end,
Multi-national
Mid-sized
Traditional Industry Ecosystem
Small, niched

27. Large, High-end,
Multi-national
X
Automation+Globalization
Evaporate the Middle...
Mid-sized
Small, niched

28. ...Leading to a fat-bottomed world
Large, High-end,
Multi-national
X
Small, niched
Mid-sized

32. Exponentials are unbundling work.

33. The Three Boxes of Life
Work LeisureLearning

34. Work LeisureLearning

35. Work LeisureLearning

36. Lifelong Learning/Work/Leisure

37. Your Portfolio of Work.
Consulting
Day Job Writing
Startup
Hobby

40. CAREER

41. What is Work?

46. What’s an
organization?

49. Startups Have a Series of Problems to Solve...
Customer
Problem
Thesis
Tech-
nology
Risk
Access to
People
Access
to
Capital
Product/
Market
Fit
Compe-
tition
Access to
Scaled
Capital
Adaptive
Compe-
tition

50. Customer
Problem
Thesis
Tech-
nology
Risk
Access to
People
Access
to
Capital
Product/
Market
Fit
Compe-
tition
Access to
Scaled
Capital
Adaptive
Compe-
tition
Startups Have a Sequence of Problems to Solve...
...and Need a Sequence of Problem-Solvers

66. “Hard”
“Soft”

67. “Hard”
Knowledges
“Soft”
Transferables

74. !
Problems
Tasks
Skills

75. !
Problems
Tasks
Skills

76. !
Problems
Tasks
Skills
Mild
Interest
Curiosity Work Meaning
Purpose
Mission

77. !
Problems
Tasks
Skills
X X
? ?

78. highlow
high
Cultural
fit
X X
?
!Performance
fit

79. What if we disrupted…
Jobs?
The organization?
Schools?
Then…
What’s the work of a coach?

80. What’s a Job?

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Co-working
facilities
Just-in-time
learning
plaforms
Team
collaboration
Remote work
Dynamic
compensation
2-sided
markets

86. Two-sided work markets
Supply
Demand
Platform

90. Problem-solvers

91. Problem-solvers
Adaptive
who are

92. Problem-solvers
Adaptive
Creative
who are
and

93. Problem-solvers
Adaptive
Creative
Entrepreneurial
who are
and
and

94. Problem-solvers
Adaptive
Creative
Entrepreneurial
who are
and
and

96. intuitiveanalytic
repetitive
unique
problems
& tasks
skills

97. intuitiveanalytic
repetitive
unique
problems
& tasks
skills

102. Work is the
channeling of
human energy.

103. No human left behind.

104. I N D I V I D U A L S O R G A N I Z A T I O N S
C O M M U N I T I E SC O U N T R I E S

105. FULCRUMstrategies for the near future of work
catalyzer: anchor partner:
Readiness Inventory: Future of Work Leader’s Playbook: Future of WorkHR Playbook: Future of Work

106. Gary A. Bolles
GBOLLES.COM
Exponentials
Strategies Careers