These posts focus on culture as we enter what is an increasingly uncertain world.
Let’s face it, we’ve been through some tough times. Most recently a couple of world wars, the subprime crisis and Covid to name a few low points. There is a prevailing view that the world is generally in some sort of steady state that is occasionally punctuated with disruptive events. Thus there is much talk […]
Who does self help help?A recent post on LinkedIn decried the notion of getting out of one’s comfort zone, suggesting that it was an underlying source of unhappiness and that we shouldn’t fall for this lifestyle con trick. I don’t know for sure, but I guess the author was taking aim at the very lucrative […]
Accidental insightLearning sometimes happens by accident. Very occasionally, it is a by-product of extreme (Chernobyl) or even inhuman (The holocaust) events. Covid-19 is one such extreme event. Whether leaders trusted their people or not, they had to let them work out of eyeshot.Leaders might reflect on what impact remote working has had on productivity, factoring […]
Tribal expulsion, anyone?Culture is the binding agent that endeavours to minimise wasteful friction within a social group. If you want to be part of this group you will need to behave in a particular manner. And if you don’t, you will be drummed out of the tribe. Knowing that tribal expulsion was a death sentence […]
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 […]
In the previous post, we saw how digital age organisations harness the full potential of their people. However, the real value comes when your people operate in a concerted manner. Tribes work best To complete the three pillars that underpin the Biz 4.0 model, we will now explore why we work best when we work […]
In the grand scheme of things we haven’t been on the planet that long. In anthropological terms we are still hunter gatherers. If you have a fall out with a colleague you just wander off with your mates and start a new tribe. Thanks to the agricultural revolution we have grown from about seven million […]