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Turn on, tune in… burn out?
In this edition, Livio considers some of the productivity trends around remote working and their possible long-term effects on the health of online workers. Work Has Changed Forever Whatever politicians might say about sandwich shop economics and the billions they...
Glimpses of our Hybrid Future
This week, Cerys writes about the emerging hybrid future of organisations and the challenges facing managers and leaders as they learn to both function and support others in the new hybrid world. The Unbearable Lightness of Remote Working The wants and needs of...
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People and Machines United in Bloviation
In this edition, Lee looks at different views of GPT-3, and how the acceleration of white collar automation will change both the fitness function for managers and how we value their contributions. General AI: Genius or Bloviator? The new version of OpenAI’s Generative...
Postshift Linklog #243
In this edition, Lee looks at the return to the office debate, home working productivity, corporate education, the magic of blockchain and the recent Digital Workplace Disruption online conference. Welcome to Our New-Look Linklog We have switched our newsletter over...
Never waste a crisis: how the sudden switch to remote working could enable the shift to truly digital organisations
What and where is your Organisational Fabric? What and where is the fabric of your organisation? How would you describe it? When the buildings are empty and the conference rooms are silent, what actually *is* the organisation? Some might argue it is the sum of...
Can Europe’s Automotive Sector Change Quickly Enough?
Tesla's soaring (possibly overvalued?) stock price, and its continued ability to design and deliver market-leading electric vehicles, raise some serious questions about the structure and culture of the incumbents in the automotive sector. Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner...
The ESN as an Engine for Employee Experience Improvement
We have worked with enterprise social networks (ESNs) for over 15 years, helping organisations to create a connected context, networks and communities to support new ways of working and overcome the harmful effects of silos. In Munich this week, at the 15th Social...
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A Practical Model for Distributed Digital Leadership
Last week I presented a model of digital leadership and strategy at #SocialNow in Lisbon. Here is the text of my talk, with slides embedded at the end... It is very hard to succeed with digital transformation in an established organisation without addressing...
What do we mean by an Org OS?
"The greatest challenge for today’s leaders is how to upgrade their organisation’s operating system” This is how we frame the conversation about organisational change and the role of digital transformation on our newly-updated website, so I thought I would explain our...
Our Guide to the Evolution of the Digital Workplace
A few weeks ago, LJ hosted a vibrant and well-informed twitter chat about the future of the digital workplace, which we summarised in a blog post. It occurred to us that there are a lot of people and organisations still working hard to develop a basic connected...