The Future of Work: A Manifesto is a culture and business manifesto that will inspire you to work differently.

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With the funds raised, I will find an illustrator or photographer to help turn this into a beautiful, shareable artifact.

The Manifesto is already published on Medium (see under writing samples). In its current form, it’s a bit like a poetic (yet businessy) blog post - I would like it to be more like an art book, or illustrated poem. It’s a vision of how the world is changing but more importantly, what we can all do to make the future of work what WE want it to be - more human, more flow, more powerful. I want to find an illustrator or photographer who can create images to describe each line of the "poem" visually.

With enough interest from collaborators, we could even expand each piece of the manifesto more and include more real voices. The end goal either way is to create a piece of content that is visual, meaningful and shareable. So we can define our own Future or Work.

An excerpt:

I. Human beings are the most important asset we have.

1. We need to bring our whole true selves to work. Human­-ness has value for the organ­ization.
2. Our best work is at the inter­section of what we like doing, what we are good at doing, and what we get paid for. Our goal is for those three things to blend more. Flow has value for the organization.
3. Work is about learning. Learning is never complete and we have a respo­nsibility as indiv­iduals to make sure we’re always learning. We also have a respo­nsibility as organ­izations to provide resources and envir­onments for learning. This is not a choice, it’s an imper­ative. Learning has value for the organization.
4. Work involves colla­boration with others. Work doesn’t happen in a vaccuum. Collaboration – both internal and external – has value for the organization.
5. We have a need to commu­nicate and share what we do and how we each do it diffe­rently. We work better in the open. Transparency has value for the organ­ization.
6. We are able to do more than one thing. Our indiv­idual skills, whatever they are, have value and that value is marke­table.
7. The formula for marke­tability is the same for everyone but the weight of each component is different and may change over time. Agility, defined as the capability to evolve with our networks, has value for the organ­ization.
8. We are connected, and we bring networks with us to work. Our conne­ctedness has value for the organ­ization.
9. We will feel a sense of belonging and purpose if we’re involved in the direction and purpose of the system. Ownership has value for the organ­ization.
10. We build relat­ionships. Relat­ionships—and the human emotions involved in nurturing them—have value for the organ­ization.
11. We need to give as well as receive const­ructive feedback. Truth has value for the organ­ization.
12. We will trust our employers if our employers trust us. Trust has value for the organ­ization.
13. We have intuition as well as intel­lect. Intuition has value for the organ­ization.
14. We all aspire to love what we do. To love where we work and who we work with. Love has value for the organ­ization.