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Is your organisation digital age ready?

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Is your organisation digital age ready?

Are you digital age ready or a hall of famer? Despite the steady growth of the ‘digitally hapless hall of fame’, whose honourees include GE, Kodak, Toys R Us and Nokia, many business leaders are pressing on with their industrial era business models as if we had just hit ‘peak-Victorian. Unfortunately for these leaders, the […]

The Learning Organisation 4.0 – Humans repurposed

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Introduction Today, organisations find themselves in a situation where past successes are no longer indicative of future success. The ‘synthetic certainty’ of the industrial era has given way to increasing volatility and uncertainty. This article explores the implications this has on learning and learning professionals. A brief history of mankind To fully appreciate where the […]

Trust me – I’m a leader

Trust me – I’m a leader

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 […]

CIO perspectives

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leadership skills

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

Digital age leadership is different

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 […]

8 skills for career success in the digital age

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success in the digital age

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

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future

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?

kill the business

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 […]

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