{"id":18774,"date":"2018-06-04T21:13:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T01:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=18774"},"modified":"2018-06-05T18:32:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T22:32:27","slug":"monday-morning-moment-trust-me-sharing-economy-idling-capacities-and-trust-with-rachel-botsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=18774","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Moment – Trust Me – Sharing Economy, Idling Capacities, and Trust with Rachel Botsman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: YouTube, Rachel Botsman<\/a><\/p>\n

Trust me. If you ever have the opportunity to hear thought leader Rachel Botsman<\/a> speak, don’t miss it. Don’t miss her.<\/p>\n

Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart<\/em> – Rachel Botsman<\/a> [Botsman’s latest book]<\/p>\n

I discovered Rachel Botsman just a few weeks ago and, of course, wrote a bit<\/a> about her work.<\/p>\n

The concept of “shared economy” and “idling capacities” isn’t new. However, when I heard her use those terms in a TED Talk<\/a>, my heart about leapt out of my chest. This resonates so with my idea of work and workplace, in terms of valuing people and resources as well as maximizing outcomes.<\/p>\n

Rachel Botsman defines these terms as:<\/p>\n

Sharing economy<\/strong> – “an economic system that unlocks the value of underused assets through platforms that match ‘needs’ with ‘haves’ in ways that create greater efficiency and access”. – Rachel Botsman<\/a><\/p>\n

Idling capacity<\/strong> – “untapped social economic and environmental value of underused assets – tend[ing] to fall into three categories: physical stuff, labor assets (time, skills, human potential), and capital assets (crowd-funding, crowd equity, peer-to-peer lending platforms)” – Rachel Botsman<\/a><\/p>\n

She talks about this broken system of supply-and-demand. “How can we extract more value from existing assets?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

These ideas are captured in a short video of her speaking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n