Leadership is a troublesome word
I have problems with the word ‘Leadership’. It is freighted with all sorts of hidden meaning and emotions and it brings up different images for each of us. Churchill. Caesar. Stalin. JFK. Genghis Khan. Mandela. Heroes and villains. Positives and negatives. Compliance and rebellion. Good and bad. It is one of those words that obscuresContinue reading “Leadership is a troublesome word”
Bosses, shut up and listen!
“I built my career by building relationships in person…” “The most significant conversations in my career began with ‘Have you got 5 minutes…’ …” “I learnt most from sitting next to older workers and going down the pub with them…” … so we must all return to the office otherwise kids today will be deniedContinue reading “Bosses, shut up and listen!”
Late development for leaders
Leadership Development is like sex education. By the time you get it, you’re no longer a virgin. Astonishingly, most Leadership Development is delivered to people who are over 40. It is reserved for those who achieve a certain level in the hierarchy, it’s a reward for their advancement, a perk, a status symbol. But theseContinue reading “Late development for leaders”
The irresistable advantage of the future of work
The future of work is not about office v home or hybrid v remote. It’s about what comes next and the irresistible advantages that brings that will cause a seismic shift in how individuals and organisations work. Let’s take hybrid first. This is very much an interim step towards a remote-first model. What we seeContinue reading “The irresistable advantage of the future of work”
History Lessons
My career only began because I sat in an office with other people. I was only there as a temp to do some admin. I wasn’t there to deal with clients, but I was curious, I listened to what was going on and asked lots of questions. After a few weeks, I knew more thanContinue reading “History Lessons”
The adoption of Hybrid Work
‘Hybrid work’ is new and sexy, isn’t it? Well, no, not really. It might be new to the majority but it’s been around for ages. The key bit here is ‘the majority’. ‘Hybrid work’ is following the technology adoption curve and is now hitting the stages of majority adoption. It seems like it is aContinue reading “The adoption of Hybrid Work”
Remote-first is the Pirate move
If Steve Jobs was still alive, we’d never have seen the New York Post headline “Apple employees say they’ll quit over Tim Cook’s return-to-office push: ‘F–k RTO’”. He famously said “I’d rather be a pirate than be in the Navy”. As a pirate, he’d have enthusiastically adopted remote work because remote working is absolutely theContinue reading “Remote-first is the Pirate move”
The future is already here
“The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.” William Gibson. Don’t tell anyone but the future of work’s been here for decades. Mostly unnoticed and unremarked on. You know, Teams and Zoom didn’t suddenly appear out of thin air because of the COVID lockdown. There was already a bunch of people usingContinue reading “The future is already here”
The Co-ordination problem
“The problem with hybrid is that it’s so hard to co-ordinate with others” is a frequently heard complaint from managers. But what if the problem isn’t hybrid working? What if the problem is co-ordination? This is a case of an old way of working clashing with a new reality. Hybrid isn’t going away. If anything,Continue reading “The Co-ordination problem”
Faster Horses
I’ve read that in the future, we’ll be working as avatars in the metaverse. Or holograms, meeting virtually in space. Or some other whizzy new tech to make us feel like we’re ‘there’ when we’re not ‘there’. Is this just ‘faster horses’ syndrome? There’s a lot of focus on whizzier ways of doing what weContinue reading “Faster Horses”
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