17th edition of Idealoading my Call to all Leaders "Dare to Dream Greatly", Talent will follow!
Alex Bulat- van den Wildenberg
Group Technology VP at Capgemini ❤️ Ergo a Techguy "a Massive Technology enthusiast, among other enthusiasts that are building towards a better future, making lasting impact" 🥰
17th edition of Idealoading My Call to all leaders "Dare to Dream Greatly", Talent will follow!
Your weekly dose of #curiosity in technology, science 🧬, innovation and business🧐
Quick overview of this weeks curiosity Newsletter:
My Call to all leaders "Dream Greatly", Talent will follow! History being made October 5: Crew-5! Robot 🤖 news: "Musk's world domination is almost here" Say Pinky and the Brain (world domination experts) Nasa space crash has Insurer's puzzled, who is to blame 😂?! Longpath by Ari Wallach, What I talk about, when I talk about running by Haruki Murakami! Land of the giants collaboration between Recode and The Verge. Speaking about "Daring to dream greatly" have a listing to this episode: How do you build a Social Enterprise for good with books?
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This weeks thoughts: My Call to all leaders "Dare to Dream Greatly", talent will follow?!
Last week I had the pleasure to speak on stage at the Stack Overflow conference in New York: FlowState, and meet with senior leaders in technology and otherwise or a nice dinner. The not so surprising conversation was all about Talent, the struggle and difficulty to attract and retain. I think 🤔 that we where all hoping that someone would have the silver bullet for it, surprisingly no one had solved it 😂. And yesterday during the Capgemini innovation days it was all about "catch the dream", which kind of made think 🤔...how to dream bigger and do more?!
Jim Collins: "the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people."
This pervasive concept: "war for talent" is not something new. The term “war for talent” was coined by McKinsey’s Steven Hankin in 1997, and a book of that name in 2001. And it seems to be a thing that persist across the ages. We now again find ourselves in kind off an epic battle to attract talent. But is that correct? What are the numbers? (yes I love to seem me some numbers) here you go: https://layoffs.fyi there is a website that tracks the layoff across all tech companies, big to small startup, an it tells a different story. Layoffs have been rising and getting more frequent so it seems. This means that the tech industry is tightening the rains for what is to come?! So maybe not a shortage? Ah well still everyone is talking about it....
Nevertheless the scarcity of great talent will always keep existing, there are just not enough people with unbridled Curiosity, Enthusiasm and Passion in every field. While contemplating all these things, it seems so obvious. If you think about the past, the ones that dare to dream greatly and execute, where rewarded with the most amazing talent. Look at the moon 🌝 shot by Kennedy, DELL's Micheal, Microsofts Bill, Apple's Steve, Google's Sergey and Larry, Tesla / SpaceX/ Boring Elon Musk, Salesforce Marc Benioff, Spanx Sara, 23andMe's Anna, Cloudflare's Michelle, and I can keep going for a while.
In my mind this is easy human psychology, we want to be part of something great. Something that we can be proud of. Something that we can point at. Something that could take us to the history books. And It seems to me that most leaders of companies have forgotten that, definitely when companies reach a certain size. They don't show the passion, the fire, the drive. Most are doing their "job". They don't live the purpose. No wonder that talent doesn't seem to be attracted.
So this is my Call to all leaders: Dare to Dream greatly, dare to show you fire and passion, dare to be bold, and talent will follow..... What is the worst that can happen? That you get fired...so what! At least you loved it 🥰 , showed it to everyone, and had an amazing ride!
PS. When I talk about leaders I don't just mean the C-suite, I mean all the leaders in the company at every level, and yes my opinion stay if you think of yourself just as a manager you are probably not in the right job....! (dare he say it? yes he dares)
Quotes I'm thinking about
“We choose to go to the Moon, We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” --- J.F Kennedy
"It's really important for us to remember how much power we have...Humans have made the system; humans can change it"---Ingrid Lafleur
"as a musician i feel i can suggest the musical poetic angle which is that after tragedies one has to invent a new world, knit it or embroider, make it up. it’s not gonna be given to you because you deserve it, it doesn’t work that way. you have to imagine something that doesn’t exist and dig a cave into the future and demand space. it’s a territorial hope affair. at the time, that digging is utopian but in the future it will become your reality." Bjork
Video I'm watching; History being made October 5: Crew-5
"NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts lifted off at 12 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 5, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the International Space Station for the fifth commercial crew rotation mission aboard the microgravity laboratory. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, into orbit to begin a long-duration science mission on the space station."
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This weeks Tech articles
Talking about people and companies that exemplify the "Dare to dream Greatly" Concept we have some Robot 🤖 news: "Musk's world domination is almost here" Say Pinky and the Brain (world domination experts)...
You can start building your own collection starting from 20.000 dollars per robot 🤖......Cars 🚙, spaceships 🚀, flame 🔥 throwers and now robots 🤖.... Elon keeps going into new endeavours that keeps amazing me. it is the combination of everything that makes it amazing... The cool thing in this robot is that it actually uses the self driving algorithms of Tesla cars and visual AI technology that they keep developing to perfection.... Even though Elon warned everybody how scary #AI is, is this him proving a point of being able to build an I,robot army.... but yes it is still very cool 😎
Science read this week:
The Nasa space crash has Insurer's puzzled, who is to blame 😂?! Did we just crash a space vehicle in an astro just for kicks? No it was to test if our theory that we could potentially safe the planet in the future from an astroid strike by change this orbit.... it seems to have had some effect but will it be enough...
Books I'm (re)-reading
Currently I'm almost finished with these two books 📚 (like always I'm reading a stack of books 😊) but these one are short and fascinating! Have fun reading them and share with me what you thought about the books.
Longpath by Ari Wallach, is about how to think in generation, and not just in one life time. We have been consumed by our own needs now, instead of the needs Decedents. amazing book to pull you out of your "lifespan bias" and short-termism.
What I talk about, when I talk about running by Haruki Murakami is kind of a autobiography disguised in a short story about running and the analogy it has to performing at your best. As a ultra-distance runner this off course highly resonates with me and the how running is also a big part of my own life.
New Podcast I discovered this week:
Land of the giants collaboration between Recode and The Verge, where they decode the big tech giants inner workings, fails, successes, culture, goals and so on now it is Meta's turn (Facebook) but they have already done Apple, Google, Netflix and Amazon. Have fun listening 👂!
If you want to listen to my podcast Idealoading you can do so here? New episode are coming soon, so stay tuned!
Speaking about "Daring to dream greatly" have a listen to this episode: How do you build a Social Enterprise for good with books? Amazing episode with my friend Michael Van Loenen the co-founder & CEO of YouBeDo.com books for good🙌 . I wanted to kick off the year 2022 with an amazing conversation and Human, have fun listing. we talked about:
Spotify: https://lnkd.in/ddZrx_sq
Apple: https://lnkd.in/dJfq-imS
Happy Reading and Don’t forget to subscribe 🙌❤️
Chief Growth Officer at Kadme AS | Data and Knowledge Management | Energy Sector | Mentor, Equinor & Techstars Energy Accelerator | Board Director, SPE Stavanger Section
2yLoved Björk’s quote in all of this, she got it! 🙂