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Why your vision is destroying your business

Leadership, Organisation strategy, Vision

The Harvard Business Review website has circa 13k references to ‘vision’. It also has around 13k of references to ‘strategy’. But of course the HBR has been around for a century and a lot has happened since its founding, including the seismic transition from the industrial to the digital / human / social etc epoch. […]

10 reasons why leadership development programmes fail

Leadership leadershipdevelopment, MBA

The digital tsunami threatened to destroy business models and create new ones. And it did. However some leaders have side-stepped it through operating in markets that they essentially controlled or whose business models were so niche that that they were immune from macroeconomic forces. Some leaders are presiding over businesses on life support. It is […]

The super-resilient leader

Disruption, Leadership leadership, super-resilience

To understand what defines a super-resilient leader, we first need to understand what we mean by the term ‘leader’. Some definitions: Leader – the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country. Lead – causing a person (or animal) to go with one by holding them by the hand, a halter, a rope, […]

Are recruiters valuable people to know?

You 'future of work', careers, recruitment

This video from my Career Disruption Channel explores the value of recruiters from a career management perspective:https://youtu.be/xAt3xcwgUz8

Covid-19, disruption and humanity

Disruption, Society covid19, disruption

An uncomfortable truth Let’s face it, if you built a robot sensitive to dopamine, serotonin, cortisol and oxytocin, for all intents and purposes you have built a human. This does not fit with the biological definition of human life, but it does tell us a lot about human lifestyle. Each of us have the following […]

How do I remain employable?

You 'future of work', career management, disruption

This video from my Career Disruption Channel explores how we can remain employable in these disruptive times.

Are careers over?

You 'future of work', career management, disruption

Are careers over? This video from my Career Disruption Channel explores the the notion of careers in these uncertain and volatile times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfndga-nMKY

The Tao of tech

Leadership, Society citizen, technology

As a species, we are no strangers to augmentation. It was a significant day, when we first picked up that rock for the purposes of doing something, or someone. On that day, it dawned on us that our performance was no longer limited to our own mental and physical attributes. Since then we have been […]

Do we need a disruption reset?

Disruption, Organisation, Society, You anthropology, humans rebooted, transformation

The descent of man Stage 1 You are sitting with friends and family around the campfire. There is no electricity. It has yet to be invented. Despite the relative harshness of the setting, everyone is in great spirits. Its been an exhausting but successful day and so there is food for everyone. Over the course […]

8 steps to creating a super-resilient organisation

Disruption, Organisation ’talent management’, super-resilience, transformation

Much has been written about the problem industrial era organisations face as we enter the post-industrial era. Covid-19 is in many respects the closing ceremony for the era of the factory business model. The rules of the game have changed and many old school players are finding themselves playing on an unfamiliar pitch. Watching digital […]

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