Diversity-as-a-System
A 21st century organisation uses systems thinking to enable agility. Shipping working code is an example of a highly valuable system that most startups develop early. When startups scale, everything moves so fast that the sole focus is on shipping the product to specified deadlines. If diversity isn’t engrained into the system of shipping the product, it will be forgotten during scaling…
Why throwing out job families is a good first step to creating a future-proof talent strategy.
In HR, the concept of job families is one example of a practice that needs revising to stay relevant. Clustering a set of roles into a ‘job family’ allowed for transparency in rewards, promotions and career paths, but today this can create artificial barriers to collaboration and personal development.
The Tell-tale Heart of Team Failure
At the end of a conference presentation, I was recently asked “how can I tell if an enterprise agile team is failing?”. A question for which I didn’t have an immediate satisfactory answer…
Reflections on Building Digital Leadership Superpowers
This week, we had fun hosting an event on how to discover and nurture digital leaders. We covered key strategies and approaches, which we have derived from both our client work and research (slides below). Building Digital Leadership Superpowers Within Your...
Linklog 87: The Role of HR in the Future of Team Development
This week’s curator, Cerys Hearsey, examines the future of team development, the role of HR in creating the conditions for high performance teams, and the tools and techniques HR can use to help teams fulfil their potential. You will also find below her pick of links...
Enabling the Future of Work Requires a Team Focus
Working in teams and teamwork are the backbone of any modern organisation. They are where the work gets done. As organisations move away from hierarchy and towards more team-centric structures (such as podular from the work of Dave Gray or team of teams from the work...
Building, Managing and Leading a Hybrid Workforce
“In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won’t mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.”...
Linklog 80: How HR can support new, more agile ways of working
This week’s curator, Livio Hughes, looks at the enabling and strategic role that HR professionals should play in developing more agile, digitally-fluent, and responsive organisations; he also shares some related guides from Shift*Base and picks 5 links for further...