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More Thoughts on the Digital Leadership Gap
This week, Lee reflects on the leadership reform agenda we need to pursue to unlock the productivity gains we hope to see from digital innovation. Somewhere over the rainbow? It feels like there is so much potential value just over the horizon - such an opportunity to...
Tackling Emerging Tech as a Team
In this edition, Cerys explores how employees can feel less on the back foot when it comes to emerging tech. Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting at a conference on the paradox of emerging technology, and one of the questions asked at the end of my talk has...
Lessons For Emerging Leadership Development
In this edition, Cerys looks at what emerging leaders need when faced with the challenge of building the future of their organisations. Being identified as an emerging leader is both a proud and daunting moment for many - stepping into a sliver of limelight before...
The Innovation Promise of Citizen Developers
In this edition, Livio looks at the disruptive potential of low-code/no-code platforms and how well-organised, motivated Citizen Developer networks can help to drive ground-up innovation In the internet of forgetting, some not-so-new things are sometimes presented as...
The * of Crowds
Thinking about three very different examples of the wisdom, stupidity and bravery of crowds, and how we should never under-estimate so-called "users"... With Great Reach Comes Get Responsibility… I really enjoyed reading up on three wildly divergent outcomes for...
Looking Beyond Centralised Platforms and Workplaces
This week, Lee is seeing signs of light through the cracks and trying to imagine a world beyond attention-farming. Will we remain trapped in centralised systems that seek to monetise our attention and emotions, or is there a brighter future beyond this stage of the...
Relearning Some Basic Lessons From Institutional Failure in the Age of Stupidity
This week, Lee is desperately seeking lessons and positive signals of change amidst the debris of 2020 😉 Happy New Year \o/ Welcome to 2021, which is definitely going to be better than 2020 - I mean, no way it could be crazier, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ *checks news* Oh, I...
Chasing Productivity at the Expense of Learning
In this edition, LJ reflects on the successes and failures of the 2020 remote working experiment. As we head towards the end of this extraordinary year, I have been reflecting on the successes and failures of the largest spontaneous working from home experiment. It...
Can Software Replicate the Value of Real-World Interaction?
In this edition, Livio shares some thoughts on how much better virtual environments need to be to compete with in-person interaction, serendipity & co-creation, and how team rituals might help. One of the most acutely-felt shortcomings of remote working is the...
Rebuilding for the Next Normal
In this edition, LJ reflects on how remote or hybrid working is here to stay, and how we can design more sustainable ways of working to cope with it. The last few weeks have brought a slight but long-overdue shift in the prevailing global mood. Biden’s historic win in...
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...