Organisational Radical Candor FTW

by | Apr 6, 2023

Cerys explores missed opportunities for radical, two-way discussions L&D are avoiding in their quest for simple, KPI-friendly projects. It is both a cliché and a truism that change is hard and that it never ends. And whilst trying to make employees feel safe,...

Organisational Evolution & the Power of Competitive Ecosystems

by | Mar 21, 2023

5 perspectives on how to harness the power of evolution within competitive environments to improve our organisations.  Kevin Kelly is a kind of techno-elder, and I often enjoy his musings, such as this interview with Noah Smith that references ‘What Technology Wants’,...

The cult of bare minimum learning

by | Mar 7, 2023

The past few years have seen an increasing investment in solving the growing digital skills gap within organisations. There are pockets of employees, even in leadership, who adopt learned helplessness with a chuckle – as if it is OK to lead in the digital age...

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

by | Feb 21, 2023

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....

Fail, Learn and Repeat. Or not really?

by | Feb 7, 2023

Should we always encourage failure-as-learning, and when might this risk de-motivate individual contributors, asks Sebastian Kowalski in this Link*Log Learning by iterating is not the same as accepting overall failure At this point, most team leads have been told many...