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Trust me – I’m a leader

Leadership leadership

The primary difference between industrial age and digital age leadership is that the former is assigned to you by the HR department and the latter is conferred on you by the people. Leadership was easier in the industrial era because the workers had no choice but to obey orders. This is changing. Whilst the robots […]

Legacy business: A way forward

Wider themes

Find out how old school, legacy, industrial era businesses can be successful in the digital age:

CIO perspectives

Wider themes cio, collaboration

I was delighted to be invited to lead a series of private fine-dining events on behalf of RingCentral for IT leaders in Denver, Minneapolis and Miami respectively. The guests included a variety of CIOs and senior IT executives from a wide range of organizations spanning the public and private sectors. Local representatives from RingCentral were […]

Digital age leadership is different

Leadership digital-readiness

Digital age leadership is different to industrial era leadership. This leadership reset represents an opportunity for those with leadership aspirations. Recognising this I have spent the last year or so developing an online education service for digital age leaders. It comprises circa 100 micro-learning modules grouped into courses, along with quizzes and assignments to turn […]

Biotensegrity: It’s time for a strategic priority reset

Wider themes anthropology, biotensegrity, organisation

Before we get into biotensegrity: We live in an increasingly uncertain and volatile world. One where being too adapted to one scenario, makes you weak in every other. For example: Functional impairment: A large tortoise turned upside down. Structural impairment: Your office building turned upside down. The same is so for fragile organisations. A dinner […]

8 skills for career success in the digital age

You career, skills

It’s no surprise that the robots are coming. Along with the algorithms, they are redefining the workplace, which in turn is redefining our role in the workplace. With such an uncertain future ahead, it would be a brave person that picks a career path today on the basis that the path will still exist in […]

We need to talk about your future

You career, cognitive

You are sitting there at work going through the motions in a meditative / zoned-out state, perhaps even enjoying the uninterrupted streak you are having in respect to getting things done. But then your boss drops by your desk and asks if you have time for a chat. Here it comes Your mind goes into […]

Is it time to kill the business?

Wider themes innovation

I am a firm believer that organisational transformation, not simply change, is a bad move. Overhauling business models will just unsettle your people and put your existing cash flows at risk. Swapping from a business that works, at least for now, to something else that might work is akin to betting the farm. Parallel universes […]

Business focus: Don’t do it!

Wider themes attention, cognitive

Many parents lament at their children’s distractibility. Their ability to play Call of Duty in team mode, whilst catching up on Netflix is both amazing and bewildering to witness if you are above a certain age. That they are concurrently keeping track of their social feeds on another device is incredible. How shallow! One might […]

How to create a truly adaptive organisation

Organisation adaptability, factory

Variables are the new constants It’s no surprise that the current annual dream-plan-execute model of organisational strategy is no longer fit for purpose. To work, it necessitated a world where there were many constants and few variables. Today, there are very few constants, so those who operate their organisations in this manner might as well […]

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