A digital thinker and practitioner who is passionate about using technology to create more effective, human organisations that are better adapted to the volatile modern world.
Lee is passionate about using social technology to put humans front and centre of the way we do things in the Twenty-First Century.
He has been playing with words and computers since the age of 10, but it was in the mid-1990s, whilst working in international politics and diplomacy, that he discovered the immense power of the internet to influence and orchestrate change.
He believes social networks, not bureaucracies, are the organising principle of the current era, and is excited about further exploring new forms of highly connected organisations.
Natural habitat:
Food road-tripping through the Iberian peninsula
Obsessions:
Espresso, pixel-perfect alignment, editing
Bad habit:
Obsessive infovore filter feeder
Interests:
Geo-politics, football, food and wine
Videos from the archive
Selected Blog Posts
Don’t Let the AGI Soap Opera Overshadow the Practical Applications of Enterprise AI
I ran a small GenAI teaching experiment last week, asking 9 groups of South African executives to develop detailed customer personas for a finance product through dialogue with Anthropic's Claude LLM. The results were genuinely interesting, and some groups were able...
Organisational Evolution & the Power of Competitive Ecosystems
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’,...
Let’s (Not) Make Bots In Our Own Image
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. Co-founder Sam...
Improving our ability to navigate macro volatility in a world where we can’t predict it
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...
Moving From Ad-hoc Hybrid Working to a Hybrid Work System in 2023
In this edition, Lee considers how we can learn the lessons of ad-hoc hybrid work and create a fully-featured hybrid work system to help us hit the ground running in 2023. 2021 was a year of enforced remote working for most office-based roles; and in 2022, we saw the...
One Final Mission for the Middle Management Brigades?
The so-called 'squishy middle' of management is often perceived as a barrier to transformation, but what if we engaged this layer as change agents? Good management gets a bad rap Ed Zitron’s critique of lazy back-to the-office articles in the media starts from the...