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
Frederic Laloux: ‘there is something in the air’
It was great to have the opportunity to watch Frederic Laloux talk about his book Reinventing Organisations at the RSA yesterday, although an hour was a frustratingly short amount of time to explore such as rich topic. Laloux believes there is 'something in the air'...
How can we address the main cause of integration failure in M&A deals?
Mergers and acquisitions represent a large and strategically important element of business growth. The number and value of deals has been increasing in the past two years, and this trend is expected to continue until at least 2016, according to Deloitte’s 2014 M&A...
Openness is the best defence
I really enjoyed spending a few days last week in the historic city of Prizren, Kosovo, at the inaugural Doku:tech conference, held in the open air overlooked by the fort that gives the city its name. The event was organised by Kushtrim Xhakli alongside the...
Digital transformation requires better organisational structures
The following is an outline of the keynote I gave today at the 7th Social Business Forum in Milan, with slides embedded at the bottom of the post. >>You may also be interested to read our research report on The Barriers to Digital Transformation which includes...
Launch announcement: POST*SHIFT is GO!
We are proud to announce that POST*SHIFT is now operational. Our mission: To build 21st Century businesses. We believe that organisations cannot fully benefit from social technology without also addressing questions of structure, culture and practice in a serious way....