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The Fabric of the Org is Links Not Bricks
This week we look forward to the looming battle between office and "remote" working and ask what we can learn from Reddit and gamers about collaboration. Ronald Coase Reversed Earlier this week, I completed the content planning phase for an extensive leadership...
Mind Your Language
In this edition, Livio looks at some of the subtler communication challenges we rarely focus on in digital change programmes. What's in a word? I never cease to be amazed by the speed with which certain terms spread across all sorts of business communities, eventually...
Siloed Capability Development Cancels Out Transformation Advantage
How can we work to build a truly developmental organisation, allowing new capability development to be for everyone, not just those closest to the customer? With any transformation effort, it makes sense to target meaningful organisational capabilities rather than...
World-Building in Hybrid Organisations
How can we move beyond 'managing' one-size-fits-all workplace culture and think about world-building or cultivating a hybrid ecology in the post-lockdown period? Can online working reach escape velocity? The debate about whether - and how - to return to the office...
Digital Talent: An Emergent Approach
How can HR functions adopt a more creative, targeted approach to developing home-grown digital talent? The digital people challenge The digital skills gap was already widening fast before COVID-19 struck, as this World Economic Forum report shows. Since then, the 1-2...
More Thoughts on the Digital Leadership Gap
This week, Lee reflects on the leadership reform agenda we need to pursue to unlock the productivity gains we hope to see from digital innovation. Somewhere over the rainbow? It feels like there is so much potential value just over the horizon - such an opportunity to...
Tackling Emerging Tech as a Team
In this edition, Cerys explores how employees can feel less on the back foot when it comes to emerging tech. Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting at a conference on the paradox of emerging technology, and one of the questions asked at the end of my talk has...
Lessons For Emerging Leadership Development
In this edition, Cerys looks at what emerging leaders need when faced with the challenge of building the future of their organisations. Being identified as an emerging leader is both a proud and daunting moment for many - stepping into a sliver of limelight before...
The Innovation Promise of Citizen Developers
In this edition, Livio looks at the disruptive potential of low-code/no-code platforms and how well-organised, motivated Citizen Developer networks can help to drive ground-up innovation In the internet of forgetting, some not-so-new things are sometimes presented as...
The * of Crowds
Thinking about three very different examples of the wisdom, stupidity and bravery of crowds, and how we should never under-estimate so-called "users"... With Great Reach Comes Get Responsibility… I really enjoyed reading up on three wildly divergent outcomes for...
Looking Beyond Centralised Platforms and Workplaces
This week, Lee is seeing signs of light through the cracks and trying to imagine a world beyond attention-farming. Will we remain trapped in centralised systems that seek to monetise our attention and emotions, or is there a brighter future beyond this stage of the...
Relearning Some Basic Lessons From Institutional Failure in the Age of Stupidity
This week, Lee is desperately seeking lessons and positive signals of change amidst the debris of 2020 😉 Happy New Year \o/ Welcome to 2021, which is definitely going to be better than 2020 - I mean, no way it could be crazier, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ *checks news* Oh, I...