Mark Abbott

You know, I'm not a magician.

If you don't want it, I can't help you get it.

But if you really do want to try to build a great company, we can help you figure that thing out.

Once you decide you really want to build a great company, the next thing you need to do is get everybody in your senior leadership team to agree and then to commit to the journey.

And then the first thing is to focus.

Make sure you guys are all on the same page in terms of what you're trying to build.

Then the next thing is to make sure everybody else in the company is aligned around where you're going to take the company.

And then ultimately what you want to get it to is where everybody in the company genuinely loves being there.

One of the speakers talked about it earlier.

You want to be surrounded by people who genuinely care about one another and want to work together and want to make the company better and better and stronger because they understand that together you can build something extraordinary.

So that's what we help people do.

All right, so from a revenue perspective, we've started the company, first revenues were 2017.

We grew like a lot of smaller businesses, 100%, 100%, 100% plus.

Last year we were 85%.

This year we're not going to quite hit 85%, but we're going to still perform pretty darn well.

And I know Nathan's probably going to ask me a question about that later on.

So let's jump into work now.

So the ages of work.

So we're gonna talk about the ages of work, I'm gonna talk about the future of work and learning, and I'm gonna talk about what I like to call useful intelligence as opposed to artificial intelligence.

So I've got a book coming out called Work 9.0, and it talks about the seven ages of work we've been through, the eighth age that we're going through right now, and my optimistic perspective on the ninth age of work.