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Old Boy Network Scenario

This scenario is structured, regulated and managed and is relationship driven.

Work is structured by organizations. Work is done through relationships. Learning and development is highly structured and planned.

Characteristics of this scenario are:

  • Clear expectations, clear roles
  • Organizational driven development
  • Structural talent management
  • Competency mapping
  • Subject Matter Expert focused (authoritative knowledge)
  • Planned innovation (business cases, calculated risks)
  • Planned careers
  • Large structured curricula
  • Please use the hashtags #lrnscen and #oldboy to discuss this scenario on Twitter.

News from the future

Bert De Coutere has created some news from the future:

AMSTERDAM - Tonight, SuperTV will air the 5th Guild Tournament Finals. Over the past weeks, ten guilds had their most promising journeymen create their masterpieces live in front of the studio audience. Tonight's craft battle will determine whether the Programmer's Guild or the Bakery Guild will get the precious champion title and the associated million to support their apprentice working. Guilds have become popular in the last decade, and are largely duplicated from the guilds of the Middle Ages. Only now, they exist for every possible profession. The concept is always the same: a 'master' will take a number of 'apprentices' to learn the skill for a tuition fee. These then become independent professionals who can become masters themselves after successfully presenting their master piece. The overarching Guilds Association points out the rise in skillful labor over the past decade, but opponents to the system worry about the closed, undemocratic nature of the guilds.

Leadership in the big data world

This is probably the scenario closest to what we know today. It is leadership by authority, and it is planned and well organised in a hierarchy. In the cartoon version this becomes ‘old, older, oldest leader’ (also from Bert De Coutere):

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