Beware of the HiPPO! The Highest Paid Person’s Opinion
In the past, those at the top often had the best information, and hopefully the skills and experience to make smart decisions. Seniority counted and [...]
In the past, those at the top often had the best information, and hopefully the skills and experience to make smart decisions. Seniority counted and [...]
A common question I get asked by business leaders is why they should invest time, effort and money in understanding and adapting to the so [...]
Not surprisingly, workplace communications preferences vary considerably across generations. This is largely a result of what communication method each generation has grown up with [...]
People love lists. During masterclasses with managers and leaders, I often get asked for a list of obvious pitfalls and things to avoid when leading [...]
The most often talked about shift in the changing expectation of the future of work is the desire for more flexibility - in time, location [...]
People worry that robots are taking the jobs of people. But more worrying is that too many people are still doing jobs better-designed for machines, [...]
In my last post, we looked at how technology and the ‘gig’ economy has created a shift for employees from needing-to-work for an organisation to [...]
Throughout the 20th century (and indeed before then), organisations have been built on the assumption that their workers needed to work for them. For the [...]
I was at dinner with a senior director in the property investments business recently. We were talking about what made his organisation ‘valuable’. Being in [...]
Have you ever thought about the irony of rows of ‘How-to-use your-iPad’ type magazines that grace every newsstand? How come there is a market for [...]