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Hi my name is Vasco Duarte and I'm here to talk to you about a topic that is very, very close to my heart:
How to help organizations evolve and adapt.
This particular story starts with a catastrophy.
BBC quotes a study stating that the average lifespan of a company is a mere 15 years.
And we are here to talk about how to help these organizations adapt and evolve.
because we want to extend the average lifespan of these corporations.
But I have a different message for you today.
I say: "Let them die".
This hit me like a ton of bricks once I visited the ???? place.
He was a sloppy cleaner and let a large fruit fly colony emerge out of the depts of his dirty dishes.
The fruit fly colony was immensely resiliant. Some may even say "antifragile".
And then it hit me. The problem we have today is that our organizations - the ones we have built -
are extremely slow at evolving.
I mean, think about this: democracy was experimented with 2000 years ago.
We had to wait up to the 1800s to start experimenting with that again.
And the reason is simple:
Kings and dynasties take far too long to die.
Certainly more than fruit flies!
But there are more and more examples.
Have no fear, however. The solution is easy. Deceptively so.
What we need is to experiment more.
This is how we change organizations.
We need the Cambrian explosion of organizational experiments to start the real change we need.
There is only one way we can change the type of organizations we have today:
to stop perpetuating the current companies, the current organizations.
Let them die! If you find yourself trapped in an experiment that you don't agree with...
...just quit!
Those of you lucky enough to live in Europe will even have healthcare! That's one less reason to worry.
You have to start today. Start experimenting.
Quit your bad job and start experimenting.
My mission for this year is to help people - awesome people like you - experiment more and change the world.
Let failed experiments die. Start adapting by experimenting more.
C'mon. Now it's your turn.
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