Two CBRE Workplace Wizards on the Evolution of Work and a “Nifty” Future

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Two CBRE Workplace Wizards on the Evolution of Work and a “Nifty” Future

Enabling the innovation workforce to “Own Their Experience”

Caleb Parker

Aug 28, 2021

Dan Harvey, Vice Chairman of CBRE joins Bold Founder Caleb Parker, and guest host Dave Cairns of CBRE to discuss the polarization around the future of work and the inflection point that will check mate finite thinkers. We hear about the evolution of cities and work, how NFT’s could encourage certain types of employee behaviour, and Dan shares who he believes may soon rest with the dinosaurs…

Connect with Dan Harvey on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-harvey-ba7ba726/

Connect with Dave Cairns on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-cairns-5644a233/?originalSubdomain=ca

Connect with Caleb Parker on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebparker/

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Value Bombs

What continues to astound me 18 months and beyond into this whole (COVID) debacle, is how divided we remain in the industry and among companies at large about the future of work – Dave Cairns
This idea that collaboration can only happen in the office, is just not complete – Dan Harvey

This pandemic is a complete system shock. It's unlike anything I've ever experienced in my lifetime. It's personal, it's professional and it's global – Dan Harvey

We're at a moment where we need to think about what living in the future is and what do we notice that's missing that we need to have? – Dan Harvey
The innovators, the creators, the knowledge workforce has a lot of power in their labour and they have choice – Dan Harvey
We have accelerating exponential God-like technology raining down on us. Some of it generates new categories of goodness, and some of it is generating new categories of harm – Dan Harvey
We are sapiens, we are tribes, we gather, there's a social component that's physical – Dan Harvey
If ideas and insights sound plausible now, it means you're not living in the future – Dan Harvey
The future of the great diaspora of workplace and work force may end up being a real help in the de-densification of this connection of “everybody has more than me and how do I step on them to get it?” - Dan Harvey
This pandemic has shown us is that we can have relationships and build relationships that are really digitally based – Dan Harvey
Cities changed our relationship to want. Density, the pressing together, it developed a form of scarcity that was articulated in the language of aspiration, jealousy and desire rather than absolute need – Dan Harvey
The World Economic Forum is predicting that by 2050 70% of humans are going to live in cities – Dave Cairns

Resources

Dan’s article: The Case for Social Tokens and NFTs in Enterprise Culture.
Anthroplogist James Suzman’s book Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time
Tristan Harris podcast Your Undivided Attention.

Ben Horowitz’s book “What You Do Is Who You Are”

Pivot podcast by Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway
Masters of Scale podcast with Reid Hoffman
The Weekly Take from CBRE podcast

Shout Outs

Salesforce
Lisa Picard CEO of EQ Office.
Ben Horowitz co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz
Spencer Levy Global Chief Client Officer at CBRE

About Dan Harvey

Dan grew up delivering workplace in the primordial soup known as the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been on the field of play watching and being part of birth of the internet and cloud computing companies from Patient Zero to the massive tech platform companies we have today. As a Vice Chairman at CBRE, Dan’s client are Fast Sector innovation companies where software, mobility and AI are driving rapid disruption of Slow Sector enterprises. He brings breakthrough insights to delivering dynamic phygital workplace that is a force multiplier for talent density and vibrant culture.

About Guest Host Dave Cairns

Dave Cairns started his career at CBRE in 2012 after being a professional poker player where he was ranked as one of the top 100 online tournament players in the world for a time. Since then, Dave has become a thought leader within the commercial real estate industry with global recognition. He is an avid content creator on LinkedIn, who is highly respect by his peers, and has received over 1 million views in 2020 alone.

Working alongside his team, Dave’s focus is on working with high growth companies in the tech sector, Space as a Service Operators (#SPaaS), and with financial services firms on a local, national and global level. Dave also leads a partnership with Deloitte on their Technology Fast 50 program, advising many of Canada’s fastest growing technology companies on their real estate requirements. He is also the co-founder of CBRE Forward, a platform designed to showcase the fastest growing tech companies in Canada.

Two CBRE Workplace Wizards on the Evolution of Work and a “Nifty” Future

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