This week I saw a great video with pop and hip-hop super producer Timbaland and his office on wheels so to say. This thing is pretty extravagant. Way beyond anything that many of us reading this little blog post would ever dream up (or would like to pump money into). But nonetheless, the guy is making top 10 Billboard singles on a bus.
Check out the video below:
So my question to you guys is that if Timbo can be doing this, why can't you do what you need to do from where you need to? Surely we don't need Pro Tools or huge mixing boards and synthesizers. All we need is a laptop, some web apps and maybe some old fashioned pen and paper?
But here's the problem I think many of us get caught up with - the tools. Adapting the tools to work with our companies, our clients and the environments that are "supposed" to work together. I can tell you that if 2 weeks after the iPad came out you would have Rana Sobhany making sweet mixes and rocking crowds with "2 iPads and a microphone" then you can surely figure it out.
I am going a little over the top here. It surely has to be more complicated. I was reading over the data from the new Workshifting white paper and its really flooring the positive change that a few days at home will have on our entire economic framework. Billions of dollars saved. More productivity. Less reliance on price-gauged natural resources. It's nuts right?
It's a total no-brainer? Then why are more companies not jumping through hoops to make the change? I don't really have that answer, but I do know that change is hard. Like driving the lane towards Dwight Howard hard (Go Magic!).
My generation (the young bucks with big mouths) may be more open to this environment. We are writing books that chronicle these ideas and principles and educating people on how it has positively affected their business. We are creating networks with thousands of influential players that all want to talk about work.
Are people listening?
My hope is that one day we'll all dance with these ideas like we do on Friday nights to one of Timbaland's bass heavy singles. Till that day, we'll keep leading by example and workshifting our butts off, while they sit in their cubes, water cooler chatting and roaming from meeting to meeting.
That's a song I'll listen to all day long. Cheers.
Check out the video below:
So my question to you guys is that if Timbo can be doing this, why can't you do what you need to do from where you need to? Surely we don't need Pro Tools or huge mixing boards and synthesizers. All we need is a laptop, some web apps and maybe some old fashioned pen and paper?
But here's the problem I think many of us get caught up with - the tools. Adapting the tools to work with our companies, our clients and the environments that are "supposed" to work together. I can tell you that if 2 weeks after the iPad came out you would have Rana Sobhany making sweet mixes and rocking crowds with "2 iPads and a microphone" then you can surely figure it out.
I am going a little over the top here. It surely has to be more complicated. I was reading over the data from the new Workshifting white paper and its really flooring the positive change that a few days at home will have on our entire economic framework. Billions of dollars saved. More productivity. Less reliance on price-gauged natural resources. It's nuts right?
It's a total no-brainer? Then why are more companies not jumping through hoops to make the change? I don't really have that answer, but I do know that change is hard. Like driving the lane towards Dwight Howard hard (Go Magic!).
My generation (the young bucks with big mouths) may be more open to this environment. We are writing books that chronicle these ideas and principles and educating people on how it has positively affected their business. We are creating networks with thousands of influential players that all want to talk about work.
Are people listening?
My hope is that one day we'll all dance with these ideas like we do on Friday nights to one of Timbaland's bass heavy singles. Till that day, we'll keep leading by example and workshifting our butts off, while they sit in their cubes, water cooler chatting and roaming from meeting to meeting.
That's a song I'll listen to all day long. Cheers.
