by Gaby Wolferink | Jan 24, 2023 | Culture, Future of Work, Leadership, Technology |
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...
by Cerys Hearsey | Jun 25, 2021 | Culture, Enablement, Leadership, Organisational structures |
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...
by Lee Bryant | Jun 10, 2021 | Culture, Future of Work, Leadership, Technology |
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...
by Livio Hughes | Nov 26, 2020 | Future of Work, Technology |
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...
by Lee Bryant | May 9, 2019 | Digital Transformation, Technology |
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...
by Lee Bryant | Mar 22, 2018 | Digital Transformation, Enterprise social platforms, HR, Technology |
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/,...
by Lee Bryant | Jan 10, 2018 | Enterprise social platforms, Learning, Technology |
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...
by Lee Bryant | Jul 7, 2016 | Culture, Enablement, Events, Leadership, Learning |
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...
by Sam Thomas | May 3, 2016 | Culture, Events, Strategy |
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...
by Lee Bryant | Feb 1, 2016 | Enterprise social platforms, ESN Adoption, Incubation, Organisational structures, Quantified Org, Strategy, Technology |
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....
