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21: John Winsor: Think Differently, Embrace Open
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John is currently the executive-in-residence at Harvard Business School’s Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), which studies AI and Workforce Transformation strategies, and founder and CEO of Open Assembly, a company that provides content, community, and strategic advising to organizations, people, and platforms to co-create the future of work.
Recently, he has been leading a global industry coalition made up 4000 global leaders in the open talent and innovation industry to start a non-profit trade association, The Center for the Transformation of Work with the goal of Transforming work for a billion people by 2025.
In his past life, John was the chief innovation officer of Havas, when Havas purchased his open advertising agency, Victors & Spoils, in 2015. Winsor founded V&S after introducing the advertising world to the practice of co-creation in his role as vice president and executive director of strategy and innovation at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. Winsor had merged his company Radar Communications, the world’s leading open strategy and research company, with CP+B back in 2007. Other companies Winsor founded include Sports & Fitness publishing, sold to Conde Nast, and the Gravity Games, sold to NBC.
John's most recent book was, “Open Talent: Leveraging the Global Crowd to Solve Your Biggest Challenges,” published by Harvard Business Press.
He is also the author of “Beyond the Brand,” “Spark,” “Flipped,” and the best-selling “Baked In,” winner of the 2009 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in marketing. Winsor is also an advisor to the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, and a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, Forbes and Digiday.
Chapters
1. 21: John Winsor: Think Differently, Embrace Open (00:00:00)
2. Introduction to the Podcast (00:00:04)
3. John's Entrepreneurial Journey Begins (00:01:35)
4. The Success of Co-Creation (00:04:11)
5. Merging Companies for Growth (00:06:05)
6. Launching Victors and Spoils (00:08:02)
7. Transition to Academia (00:09:54)
8. The Paradigm Shift in Business (00:11:40)
9. AI's Impact on Labor (00:12:45)
10. Organizational Resistance to Change (00:14:10)
11. Fundamentals of Business Amid Change (00:15:18)
12. The Future of Work and Language Evolution (00:17:01)
13. Sorting Through Noise in Thought Leadership (00:21:11)
14. The Evolution of Open Talent Marketplaces (00:26:03)
15. Insights from the Former Head of Innovation at PayPal (00:31:04)
16. The Role of Storytelling in Organizational Change (00:36:50)
17. The Need for Change in Talent Agencies (00:42:47)
18. Acceptance of Change (00:48:35)
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