RTO companies will get crushed by those who don’t
Companies that enforce a ‘Return to the Office’ will get crushed by those who don’t. Discuss! Here’s why I think this is going to be the case: The arguments for Return to the Office (RTO) are unsupported by any science that I can find. The justification given for RTO is to improve productivity, communication and…
I’m in heaven
This is me in my kind of heaven – on a pair of skis. It’s one of those perfect blue sky days with fresh powder and no queues. Days like these are hard to beat (but then a bad day skiing is better than any day working!). Skiing is not just something I love, it’s…
CEOs are in a different world of work
The reason CEOs have a different opinion to employees about where and how we should be working is because they live in a completely different world of work to the rest of us. So much so that it practically disqualifies them from having any valid opinion about the issue. And yet they happily bloviate away,…
Survival is not mandatory
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” W. Edwards Deming. You don’t have to move to hybrid working. You don’t have to downsize your office. You don’t have to move to asynchronous ways of working. You don’t have to give your people flexibility and autonomy over their work. You don’t have to…
Virtual and Asynchronous
What if meeting virtually is better that in-person, most of the time? What if working asynchronously in a distributed team works better than being together in one place for most work? What would that mean for how you structure your organisation and how you do your work? For so long the default has been to…
Psychos everywhere!
There are psychos everywhere in business, judging by the responses to my post about my Psycho Boss. It certainly struck a nerve with a lot of you. The picture is a lot more complicated and nuanced than my experience covered. What people have shared with me has many more layers and lots of different manifestations,…
Psycho Boss
Have you ever had a ‘Psycho Boss’? I was amazed at how much it resonated with people when I talked about my psycho boss at a talk I gave recently. What really got to me was how strongly people felt it still, even when the experience was decades ago. I should have really been so…
There’s a right way to sack people
Redundancies. Lay-offs. Downsizing. Whatever you call it, it’s sacking people through no fault of their own. It hurts and it can be damaging but sometimes it’s unavoidable. There are right ways of doing it, however, and a couple of good examples have emerged recently as a welcome contrast to the thoughtless carnage we are seeing…
Wants and Needs
Employers are throwing more money and all sorts of perks at people to recruit and retain them but they are still struggling to fill roles? How does that makes sense? We used to go to work to meet our needs. You went to work in the factory or to feed yourself and have a place…
The Everywhere Office
Welcome to the Everywhere office. Some of us have been here for a while. After all, we’ve had laptops, tablets and smartphones for years. Decades, actually. You’ve seen us around but just haven’t noticed. In the airport lounges, on the trains, in the coffee bars. At home too but you wouldn’t see that. Our friends…
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