The Quantified Organisation: can change become routine?

One of the challenges we have wrestled with since we launched Post*Shift is how to combine the best elements from new theory, ideas and models in the most practical and actionable way possible, whilst retaining enough flexibility to address the unique features and...

Reporting on our Workshop ‘Organising for Social’

Last week we ran a workshop on the topic of ‘Organising for Social’, looking at how social teams can and should play a bigger role in improving the business as a whole. It was an early preview of an upcoming series of events we will be organising in the coming months....

Is the idea of disruptive innovation overstated?

Jill Lepore has produced an excellent, well-written and passionate refutation of Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation in the New Yorker; but I can’t help thinking the target of her piece is not just Christensen’s work, but also...

Why we fell in love with Somewhere

Recruitment is broken – and it has been for years. Nothing much has changed, for a very long time, in the formulaic, process-driven way that people try to find the right companies and companies try to find the right people. The ability to put CVs online has made...