Ok, so you are curious, as I described yesterday. The first of #14Actions. Great start! Because you are already questioning and scratching your chin, you are also probably happy to embrace ambiguity. And a good job too – for the … Continue reading Prosper In The Future Of Work: Ambiguity > Certainty – #14Actions
Of course I get direction from those higher up the food chain in my organization. The company’s strategies are theirs. My job is to amplify, to tidy and finesse, occasionally even caress. There is but one problem with this funnel … Continue reading The Future of Work Is About ANYONE (But The Leader)
One of the main policing teams in an organisation is the communications team. They are expected to gatekeep knowledge, speak as and for the company, oversee what others are up to and intervene, often righteously. Such behaviour is out of … Continue reading Data Flows, We Cannot Control It: Observations On The Future Of Work
Everything is beta, folks. The future of work (for communicators) is a crazy messed up dystopia – unless one prepares, builds new muscle, sloughs off dying practices. I shared this prognostication last week at a talk to communicators in Vancouver, … Continue reading Observations On The Future Of Work: Logarithmic Vs. Linear
I gave a presentation at a communications workshop / forum last week. When pondering what to talk about – alongside standard MarComms topics of social media and crisis management and intranets – I wrote: Why all the communications skills you have worked … Continue reading Everything Is Beta: A Provocation For Communicators (And, Well, Mostly Everyone)
Planning and team alignment requires tension. Harmony is overrated. Continue reading There Is Tension In The Room. Everything Is How It Should Be.
Following on from yesterday’s post about my antifragility approach, this is what I shared with Wouter Ijgosse about how I inject antifragility at work: Small tests, under the radar Play the long game, but test every day Prove out ideas through … Continue reading How I Make My Business #Antifragile
I once hitchhiked in a Mercedes limousine – it was intoxicating and #antifragile. Continue reading An #Antifragile Hitchhike In A Mercedes Limousine
