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Nobody Gets Fired for Buying IBM - But They Should
A classic enterprise phrase hides a deeper truth: decisions made to avoid blame quietly accumulate Human Debt. This essay revisits why “nobody gets fired for buying IBM” was never about safety - and why courage, not risk aversion, is the real competitive advantage.
A Lesson The Pandemic Taught Our Team
WARNING: This is rather long, don’t start it as a procrastination exercise but consider parking it for when you have the mental space to…
Agile In A Pandemic
(Reposted from the LinkedIn “The Future Is Agile” Newsletter)
It’s High Time The Future Of Retail Were Now
Making an experience is nice and inspiring, making software that can empower people to imagine and build their own flying cars? Priceless.
Will The Future (Of Work) Hold Humans?
Loads of foolishness happens in many industries these days when it comes to discussing the future of work. Everyone can tell in their heart…
Wake Up, It’s Future Of Work O’Clock!
A stupendous amount of people still go through their work-life as if it’s 1999. Spoiler alert — we all have to wake up.
On FIRE And Obnoxious Cliches About Loving What You Do
“If money were no object…”
The WHY of Everything at Work
It should all be up for questioning, examining, probing. The way we do anything in the workplace.
The “Staying Sane And Being Better” Leader’s Challenge
I write a lot about betterment on my professional channels. More than meets the eye, in fact. On LinkedIn, I have two weekly newsletters —…
On Positivity And Living Long And Prospering
This is not a piece on how to become happy. Nor a list of things to do to be positive. Just thoughts on why it’s hard.
How I Fell In Love With A Report On DevOps
The State Of DevOps 2019 — a report made by winners for winners. Even if not an #Agile and DevOps fetishist like me — you’ll fall in love.
The Future Of Work Isn’t “Doing The Robot”
Out of sheer love for our kids we have to open the urgent dialogue of how to stop doing the robot and start doing the human instead.
The “Be Human At Work Once A Day” Challenge
So much of our interaction at work is fake.
Mental Check-lists For Purpose Conscious Woke Leaders
If you look at what came out of Google’s Project Aristotle research as to what makes a team a super-team, and how they get magic done at…
Why FinTech And Influencer Lists Don’t Matter
For those of you coming over here to “hear” me rant violently this is the second week in a row where I may disappoint as I’m not even…
Being Kind — Ain’t Nobody Got Time Not To Have Time For That
The world is moving into a much more human era. Thankfully. No matter where you turn, whether you bemoan the snowflakery of Millenials or…
The Education Emperor is Butt Naked
I have an 8-year-old so I spend quite some time thinking about formal education. If you add to this that the day joy has me meet tens of…
Why Banks (And Everyone Else) Should Be Afraid Of Facebook’s Libra
I was going to write about UK Challengers going international and the reactions that brought, and about the most annoying #AgileFaker (a…
What the son of a motherless goat is happening to real-talk in conferences for the love of great…
Despite doing more speaking engagements this year than your average bootstrapping CEO I’ll never be your prim and proper run-of-the-mill…
What Banking Can Learn From Facebook
For all its many flaws GAFA is still spearheading everything in technology from how to design engaging digital experiences and products to…
Uncurious UX Changes — Are Experience Providers Such As Spotify Or LinkedIn Becoming Too Fast Or…
Nobody asks us what we think anymore.
Everything Is Awesome In Banking And Design If We Ignore The Butt Naked Emperor
Last week at this time I was at the FinTech Design Summit opening (and then later in the day closing in a panel too) and I have oodles of…