Can We Put the Future of Work into Code?

How we might use a DAO to promote better ways of work.

Great people, a great idea, and funding aren’t enough.

As Michael Dell once put it, great ideas are a commodity, but the execution of them is not.

But this is where so many organizations fall short — confusing presence with productivity, and motion with progress, content to spend all day responding to emails, and logging in to Zoom calls at the expense of getting any real work done.

Cue leadership development webinars aimed at fixing this problem.

Problem is, all of the leadership development webinars in the world amount to nothing if the systems and cultures people find themselves in when they return to their desks don’t support what they've learned.

But what if we could simply put into code better ways of work?

The DAO

Well, there’s a new type of organization brewing that empowers leaders and teams to do exactly that — the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).

A DAO is a blockchain-based organization represented by rules encoded in a smart contract, that are transparent about decisions and money-flows, and are controlled by the organization’s members (typically anybody…