by Cerys Hearsey | Sep 19, 2023
Employees trying to up-skill face a real dilemma, one which becomes even more acute when their organisation is undergoing transformation: on one hand, they are caught in the prevailing cult of bare minimum learning, and on the other, the organisation’s ever-changing...
by Lee Bryant | Sep 5, 2023
We are already seeing the decline of hierarchy as an organising principle for leadership in large organisations, and we have increasing evidence, such as this from Leandro Herrero, that positional authority is far less powerful than networked influence as a way to get...
by Radko Diev | Jun 27, 2023
A couple of years ago, in a fast-growing convenience retail company, I took on a new responsibility – operations. As a newly-appointed Operations Director, I was overwhelmed with the details of how individual processes work, urgent high-risk escalations, and...
by Lee Bryant | 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’,...
by Lee Bryant | Dec 20, 2022
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...
by Livio Hughes | Oct 12, 2022
In this issue, Livio considers the cultural elements of M&A integrations and how they can be enabled by a purposeful digital workplace strategy The key role of the digital workplace in supporting successful M&A integration Big is not always beautiful Last year...