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...
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...
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...