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Let’s (Not) Make Bots In Our Own Image

Let’s (Not) Make Bots In Our Own Image

by Lee Bryant | Feb 21, 2023 | Digital Transformation, Future of Work, Technology | 0 comments

Approximation & Interpolation It is impossible to ignore the wave of excitement, hype and alarm that the launch of ChatGPT – and its recent adoption by Microsoft as an enhancement to its Bing search engine – has created in the past couple of weeks....
Is email to blame for what is wrong with office communication?

Is email to blame for what is wrong with office communication?

by Gaby Wolferink | Jan 24, 2023 | Culture, Future of Work, Leadership, Technology | 0 comments

Or are Meetings? Or Slack messages? Or Teams Channels? Or, maybe it’s simply us… ‘This meeting could have been an email!’ How many of us have uttered these words under our breath, sat in yet another pointless meeting? Meetings like these waste so much...
Little Helper, not Big Brother

Little Helper, not Big Brother

by Lee Bryant | Jan 10, 2023 | Digital Transformation, Future of Work, Technology | 0 comments

Photo by Jan Huber on Unsplash Amid the AI hype and fear-mongering, there is value today in creating augmentative little helpers in the workplace, rather than trying to simply replace people. We make our tools, and our tools destroy us in a robot uprising make us Amid...
Improving our ability to navigate macro volatility in a world where we can’t predict it

Improving our ability to navigate macro volatility in a world where we can’t predict it

by Lee Bryant | Dec 20, 2022 | Capabilities, Strategy, Thoughts | 0 comments

A final few links and observations as we close 2022 on the skills we need to develop if we are to safely and successfully navigate complexity and macro-level volatility. From Tochka-Us to Twitterdammerung in 2022 I am not going to make the mistake of trying to predict...
Moving From Ad-hoc Hybrid Working to a Hybrid Work System in 2023

Moving From Ad-hoc Hybrid Working to a Hybrid Work System in 2023

by Lee Bryant | Dec 6, 2022 | Future of Work, Learning, Organisational structures | 0 comments

In this edition, Lee considers how we can learn the lessons of ad-hoc hybrid work and create a fully-featured hybrid work system to help us hit the ground running in 2023.

In Search of the Best Blend for Hybrid Learning

In Search of the Best Blend for Hybrid Learning

by Lee Bryant | Oct 21, 2022 | Capabilities, Events, Leadership, Linklog, Technology | 0 comments

Some reflections on hybrid learning approaches as L&D teams start rushing back towards face-to-face offline learning delivery

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Lee reviews some interesting experiments with AI chatbots, and considers the risks of amplifying the human tendency to deliberately mislead...

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In our latest LinkLog, Sebastian talks about #failure, and how we should approach this in our learning journeys.

Should failure be a goal? is failure itself an inherent part of how we learn? What about risks and how can leadership mitigate those?

https://postshift.substack.com/p/fail-learn-and-repeat-or-not-really

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It is Tuesday, and time for our first #LinkLog of 2023. @leebryant talks about how, amid the #AI hype and fear-mongering, there is value today in creating augmentative little helpers in the workplace, rather than trying to simply replace people!

https://postshift.com/little-helper-not-big-brother/

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Avatar Kaz Nejatian @canadakaz ·
3 Jan

Meetings are a bug. Today, we shipped a fix to this bug at @Shopify.

To start 2023, we're cancelling all Shopify meetings with more than two people. Let's give people back their maker time. Companies are for builders. Not managers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2023/01/03/shopify-is-canceling-all-meetings-with-more-than-two-people-from-workers-calendars-and-urging-few-to-be-added-back

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