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Quantified Self Scenario

This scenario is flexible, individualistic and enabled and is data driven.

Individuals are flex/network workers. Data is used to continuously monitor and improve individual performance and it is used to assure competences.

  • Individual in control
  • Competence development through monitoring / automated feedback
  • High talent mobility
  • Self compliance (data to proof compliance)

News from the future

Bert De Coutere has created some news from the future:

Did you thank someone today? asks Otto, the self-coaching app. Leuven - I've been trying out Otto, the self-coaching app for two months now. The app is a newcomer in the world of Quantified Self tools, and helps people like me draft their list of 'working points'. These working points get converted in a list of questions that Otto (the name of the automatic coach) will ask you daily or weekly. Now, two months later I look back at the graphs of my goals. For some reason, I never thank people on Mondays... The app is available for iPhone and Android and still in beta. It is made by homo competens, who brought us the quiz site about2findout.com and learning-site-in-disguise walkthe.net. Coaching is a hot item in the corporate development world these days. You can judge by the number of books on this topic displayed at airport book shops. But people don't really need these books. What they need is a solid method to make them formulate points of improvement, see a variety of reachable solutions and act upon that. The app actually mimics very expensive executive coaching who would call their coachees every day to ask the list of questions. That is obviously a very expensive process. Otto is 'coaching for the rest of us', as the makers describe it. Coaching started out as an activity for the happy few, usually the leaders in an organisation. Its proven benefits make that everyone could actually use a coach or mentor at key moments in their careers. The problem with coaching is that it is very expensive because people-intensive and doesn't scale well. This app won't solve this problem, but will bring basic coaching to everyone, and is a helpful complementary instrument to deeper coaching. The free version of the app will let you create a list of 10 development goals or 'working points'. The beauty of the app is that it suggests development goals based on your MBTI score - a popular personality assessment test. People with a certain MBTI profile tend to have common derailers, and I must admit I picked a few working points from that list too.

Leadership in the big data world

The Quantified Self world is all about data and flexible work. Leadership comes with proven and tracked experience. The cartoon version is “the leadership game” (also from Bert De Coutere):

Go to quantifiedself.com for news about how you could get self-knowledge through numbers.

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