The following is a story of the future by the inventor — fiction with a real core. It shows what the points model could stand for at the largest scale. At the end stands the bridge to what already works today.
Jan enjoys the skyline of the city of Brach from his apartment on the 24th floor. He has many friends; the places to meet and communicate are excellently organised. Jan takes the time he needs.
His work — and he wants to work — gives him great joy. „Of course“, he thinks, „otherwise I wouldn’t do it.“
In earlier times, Jan thinks with a shudder, work was often drudgery. People depended on their income. To survive in civilisation you needed money — and money existed only in exchange for work, or after humiliating visits to authorities.
Today there is work of every kind, without end. You are always needed — partly paid, partly voluntary. For every kind of work you receive respect, and this recognition is an elixir of life.
In Jan’s world, the many voluntary activities are assigned following the model of the task exchange:
Points measure recognition: activities that attract too few volunteers carry higher measurable recognition — points. Childcare, care for the elderly, order services at events, duty with the volunteer fire brigade: when there is a shortage, the recognition rises. All by itself.
The status of honour: volunteers can raise their standing — expressed in the level of their individually earned points account. This status is personal. It can neither be sold, gifted, nor inherited. It can do only one thing: be earned.
Trainers receive points for success: not for attendance, but proven by the passed examinations of their learners. Every trainer today is passionately interested in the full success of their training — and learning is genuinely fun for students and teachers alike.
(How Jan’s society got there — which major reforms preceded his time — the inventor tells in his detailed story. Here it is about the principle behind it.)
The principle is not a dream — it has been tested. In the working world, the task exchange has delivered since 1992 (KVD Service Management Award), in the 2006 pilot +20 % productivity — without bonuses, without pressure, purely through visible recognition.
The core is always the same, in corporations and clubs alike:
Whoever takes something on is seen. What you have earned belongs to you. And what counts cannot be bought — only earned.
The beginning of Jan’s world exists now. Not as a reform of society — but as a tool for your club, your group, your team:
• GoodPoints Lean for clubs and groups — without registration, tasks with points, ready instantly.
• Private points accounts as in the vision: what you have earned belongs to you — nobody else can read individual values.
• Fair dynamics: unpopular tasks can carry higher points — the balance that engaged groups need.
Every club that starts with this today is a small Brach.
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