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Is email to blame for what is wrong with office communication?

Is email to blame for what is wrong with office communication?

by Gaby Wolferink | Jan 24, 2023 | Culture, Future of Work, Leadership, Technology | 0 comments

Or are Meetings? Or Slack messages? Or Teams Channels? Or, maybe it’s simply us… ‘This meeting could have been an email!’ How many of us have uttered these words under our breath, sat in yet another pointless meeting? Meetings like these waste so much...
Permission To Be Different

Permission To Be Different

by Cerys Hearsey | Jun 25, 2021 | Culture, Enablement, Leadership, Organisational structures | 0 comments

Cerys shares links and insights into teams and leadership, inspired by the launch of a major collaborative project. This week, much of our time has been occupied with the launch of a new collaborative squad, with ambitious goals, combining the Post*Shift team, a...
The Fabric of the Org is Links Not Bricks

The Fabric of the Org is Links Not Bricks

by Lee Bryant | Jun 10, 2021 | Culture, Future of Work, Leadership, Technology | 0 comments

This week we look forward to the looming battle between office and “remote” working and ask what we can learn from Reddit and gamers about collaboration. Ronald Coase Reversed Earlier this week, I completed the content planning phase for an extensive...
Can Software Replicate the Value of Real-World Interaction?

Can Software Replicate the Value of Real-World Interaction?

by Livio Hughes | Nov 26, 2020 | Future of Work, Technology | 0 comments

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...
Our Guide to the Evolution of the Digital Workplace

Our Guide to the Evolution of the Digital Workplace

by Lee Bryant | May 9, 2019 | Digital Transformation, Technology | 0 comments

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...
The Facebook scandal and why we need to get better at social system design

The Facebook scandal and why we need to get better at social system design

by Lee Bryant | Mar 22, 2018 | Digital Transformation, Enterprise social platforms, HR, Technology | 0 comments

Like many people who were advocates for social tools in the early 2000’s, I regret that the comfortable world of collegiate, respectful debate and empathetic connection we enjoyed as early bloggers morphed into the dystopian world of Facebook manipulation, /b/,...
Turning Noise into Knowledge

Turning Noise into Knowledge

by Lee Bryant | Jan 10, 2018 | Enterprise social platforms, Learning, Technology | 3 comments

The meteoric rise of Slack over the past few years has re-energised the digital workplace field, and now with Microsoft Teams starting to become widely adopted in more traditional enterprises, new opportunities are opening up around this class of tools. Most...
Working Out Loud for Teams and Leaders

Working Out Loud for Teams and Leaders

by Lee Bryant | Jul 7, 2016 | Culture, Enablement, Events, Leadership, Learning | 2 comments

Last week, we joined in a co-creation effort with an amazing bunch of colleagues at Bosch and John Stepper, author of Working Out Loud, to adapt the basic idea of WOL (Working Out Loud) circles to the challenge of team development and leadership communication, and we...
Changing the Way we Think to Change our Organisation

Changing the Way we Think to Change our Organisation

by Sam Thomas | May 3, 2016 | Culture, Events, Strategy | 0 comments

Here at Post*Shift, we recently had the pleasure of hosting the author Dave Gray for a glimpse into the world of his new book ‘Liminal Thinking’. Dave had set out to write a book on agile, but his research into the difficulty of scaling agile practices in...
Enterprise Social Networks: a Higher Purpose?

Enterprise Social Networks: a Higher Purpose?

by Lee Bryant | Feb 1, 2016 | Enterprise social platforms, ESN Adoption, Incubation, Organisational structures, Quantified Org, Strategy, Technology | 2 comments

ESNs are now part of the furniture A basic form of social business collaboration is now an expected feature of the modern workplace, at least in terms of the prevalence of ESN platforms like IBM Connections, Jive and Sharepoint, or chat apps like Slack and Yammer....
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26 Jan

Our latest Link*Log by @drgabywolferink is out, with links from:

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It is Tuesday, and time for our first #LinkLog of 2023. @leebryant talks about how, amid the #AI hype and fear-mongering, there is value today in creating augmentative little helpers in the workplace, rather than trying to simply replace people!

https://postshift.com/little-helper-not-big-brother/

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Avatar Kaz Nejatian @canadakaz ·
3 Jan

Meetings are a bug. Today, we shipped a fix to this bug at @Shopify.

To start 2023, we're cancelling all Shopify meetings with more than two people. Let's give people back their maker time. Companies are for builders. Not managers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2023/01/03/shopify-is-canceling-all-meetings-with-more-than-two-people-from-workers-calendars-and-urging-few-to-be-added-back

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Avatar Josh Lu @joshlu ·
4 Jan

A big reason @zynga produced so many strong games founders & execs is bc game teams were trained to act like startups

1. New teams had to raise money VC style
2. Monthly board meetings for accountability
3. Outsized rewards for success

Here's what each tactic taught our teams👇

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20 Dec

From Tochka-Us to the Twitterdammerung, 2022 was an unpredictable one. For our last linklog of the year, @leebryant offers 4 techniques for navigating macro volatility & uncertainty: https://bit.ly/3jiRFKf - h/t @Noahpinion @FT @D_R_Goodwin @nmoryl @snowded @clayparkerjones @vgr

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