Something happened last week that gave me pause. Many other dialogues made me think and consider angles I hadn’t even noticed before and for that, I am very thankful to both our team and our clients and prospective clients but this interaction, in particular, left me pondering for a long...
Last week’s article which was an Open Letter to the Modern Leader elicited a bunch of responses but they were -maybe unsurprisingly- mostly in private. This is both good and bad, let me try and explain. It’s bad because any debate, discourse or dialogue that is private and is not in the public...
On Monday I wrote an “Open Letter to the Modern Leader” on the Chasing Psychological Safety series and I left it there, “unperturbed” by other writing on Tuesday or Wednesday -which are usually my other days to publish in the newsletters- just to see if its reach expands and it -hopefully- lands...
It’s about the planet of course but it absolutely applies to companies that refuse to transform their mindset and redesign their culture with the genuine happiness of their employees as priority zero that will equally face extinction in the near future. Every once in a while something reminds...
Execution Debt
Speaking of writing my upcoming book “Tech-led Culture” (which we were last week)- I find myself having to pull back quite a bit when it comes to tone. A book is not a place to be indignant. Neither is this newsletter in a sense by virtue of how open and public it is. So I set up this private...
As I was saying yesterday, if you fancy seeing some of my exclusive hard-hitting member content be it opinions or rants you can find it here: patreon.com/user?u=83255576 In today’s video, we’re speaking about the flip side of responsibility - the kind we all have to exhibit - personal...
Let me start by saying I’ve built a new destination for members-only content. It’s on Patreon and it is the next level after this. I will, of course, keep writing in these newsletters but I’ll reserve the juicy bit, the controversial parts and most of my boiling indignation for there. Expect “No...
As I’m getting deeper into writing for my upcoming book “Tech-led Culture” I find myself, once again, deploring how difficult it is to attempt to emulate hindsight and perspective when in the very middle of the history-making eye of the storm as we are now. I felt this way before when during the...
Today’s article was meant to be on a different topic but as I was researching for my new book yesterday I came across a new study that claims “Nearly half (46%) of employees say they wouldn’t recommend their company or their profession to their children or any young person they care about. An...
We have often spoken about the need to admit that the vast majority of workers have never quite recovered after the trauma of the pandemic. This is constantly and bizarrely overlooked in all industries and despite living and breathing people topics and speaking to tens of companies, we can’t...
I find it nothing short of astounding how willing we are to turn a blind eye to some horrendous things in the knowledge industry. There's so much that's common knowledge and we still carry on about our day trying to fit sideways around major elephants blocking the room and ignoring naked...
Today’s video is appealing to HR and it is straight from the heart. People need a people hero to establish the need for the human work and they need them yesterday. Over the past week, the terrifying events at Twitter (and Meta) are a lot worse than meets the eye. This calls for a major...
