I was going to tell you all about my Elon indignation again on here but being that I already covered it twice this week and that given enough rope and time he’ll soon hang himself again, let’s ignore his actions that only suggest maybe he’s taking his belief that we live in a simulation to the...
In a world that’s crying out for heroes and feel-good stories, it’s little wonder someone like Elon Musk is capturing the imagination of so many and I was indeed expecting yesterday’s article to be unsavoury to them. What I didn’t expect was for their objection not to be encompassed in a defence...
No one reading this can possibly have escaped rumblings of the furore of the Twitter layoffs and everyone on LinkedIn seems to be discussing it so I won't repeat the background other than to say that within days of being acquired, Twitter has seen a wave of dismissal of seismic proportions in a...
Last week’s article about the acute need for cultural change seems to have resonated tremendously with a lot of people. That’s great news actually, it means we can all sense the urgency and that makes me hopeful for eventual momentum. Hopeful that eventually, we would have all agreed we have to...
Psychological Safety Research
As we were saying yesterday, we realised that, while the mental health crisis precipitated by the Covid trauma and the fundamental changes in the workplace continues, we can not ignore yet another crisis - that around the lack of emotional intelligence that we see in every organisation and at...
Unfortunately for all of us, no one comes out of formal education - irrespective of how extensive or on what topic it may have been- with any wealth of knowledge regarding the topic of emotions and behaviours. This hasn’t been too big of a hindrance in the “before times” when our work lives...
I wasn’t going to write today as I’m heading for IT Masters in Mexico City followed by a mini, overdue honeymoon but as the Mr is sat next to me in the lounge having had to log in to his own company’s system and check on an incident (perils of being married to a director of Microsoft...
Yesterday’s article underlines the mental wellness crisis in the workplace and the fact that it is now at long last recognised at large by various big reports and, more momentously, the World Health Organisation has released workplace mental health guidelines, further underpinning how severe the...
We can all agree that the value of self-reporting, in particular when it comes to topics that are traditionally seen as taboo or mired in ill-understood and antiquated convention is at best questionable so whenever I see surveys regarding workers’ mental health, I have a tendency to dig into the...
My extreme admiration for techies in general and "agilists" in particular, is no surprise. I’ve written about Technology and Agile Superheroes for years now and I am firmly of the belief that it is technologists that our hopes for better work culture and less HumanDebt rest with, and not anyone...
As I was saying yesterday, here we are at a place where we think we moved mountains in the workplace, but instead, we have #EmotionalSupportWaterBottle - what more clear expression of the size of the HumanDebt and how deep the EQ crisis really is?
