An #Antifragile Hitchhike In A Mercedes Limousine
I once hitchhiked in a Mercedes limousine – it was intoxicating and #antifragile. Continue reading An #Antifragile Hitchhike In A Mercedes Limousine
Tag: Disruption
The Automaton Hordes Are Here! I Hope you Are #FutureOfWork Ready
We all know Big Blue can beat anyone at chess, based on parsing billions of calculations and having a dedicated team of people at its side, soothing its fears and oiling its parts. We have seen the Japanese robots that can … Continue reading The Automaton Hordes Are Here! I Hope you Are #FutureOfWork Ready
A Phlegmatic Response To Social Technology Consolidation
This is a story about Yammer, but from what I read online, it could substitute for the existential angst that comes from adopting, and fighting for, most transformative social technology, as apps and tools get swallowed up in the technology consolidation rush. … Continue reading A Phlegmatic Response To Social Technology Consolidation
Beta Learning: Download App, Press Record, Mutter Hmmmmmm
Hyperlapse is the latest and greatest. Just a couple of days after I had a conversation about Microsoft’s upcoming reveal of an image stabilisation tool with @The_Solimonster – my genius creative tech colleague – Instagram has one in production, a single … Continue reading Beta Learning: Download App, Press Record, Mutter Hmmmmmm
One Moment, Art Installation; The Next, A Fight For Survival
I visited Tate Modern at the weekend for one of their shows in the magnificent Turbine Hall. It was something to do with immigration and Notting Hill and the carnival and modern London life, maybe. I captured a little video … Continue reading One Moment, Art Installation; The Next, A Fight For Survival
Whatever You Are, Be A Good One
I am just back from a week in London running some workshops, drills and meetings about, of all things, crisis management. Yikes. Now, crisis management is not in my DNA. It is not from where I draw my strength and … Continue reading Whatever You Are, Be A Good One
Curiosity: The MUSCLE Of Change
I read a great quote today from Hugh MacLeod:
People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.
So let’s go back to the beginning and watch our kids grow up. Think how much they learn and how much they change – seemingly in front of our very eyes.
We – parents, family, teachers – are not changing them, they are changing themselves, driven by a innate curious to understand and orient and reorient, no stone left unturned.
Fiendish Child: Follow Them To The Edge
Young people are VERY annoying. They ignore your sage advice, they throw out all your “best” practices. They call you square. Now, one might be prone to a sanguine shrug, a “What do they know?!” But no, we don’t. We … Continue reading Fiendish Child: Follow Them To The Edge
Fiendish Child: Knowledge, So What?!
Kids’ brains are being rewired, almost in real time, away from storing data to knowing how they might (re)find data when required – aka Dr. Google. Don’t believe me? Google it. FACT! Knowledge is increasingly less valued. Not undervalued. Your … Continue reading Fiendish Child: Knowledge, So What?!
Fiendish Child: Get Used To It, Grandad
Boomers have finally got used to the fact that their kids will not have a job for life; they accept that people move around jobs, looking for new challenges, whether by design or out of necessity. Now, Gen Xers have … Continue reading Fiendish Child: Get Used To It, Grandad
You Fiendish Child! Letting The Kids Cut Through Workplace Bullshit
I often used to annoy my mum with my ‘cleverness’ – y’know, glib responses to important questions, portraying her 40-odd years of experience had nothing on a random school playground conversation with a friend. Very annoying, especially when I was right! “Aaaah, you fiendish child!” she would often retort. It is a term that often now comes to mind when my eldest, Lola, tries on her all-knowingness routine. What goes around, comes around. — When I think about issues and opportunities arising from the discussion around social business and technology and the changing nature of work, I keep searching for something supremely, … Continue reading You Fiendish Child! Letting The Kids Cut Through Workplace Bullshit
3 Things I Learned From Being An Anonymous Enterprise Troll
Four years ago, before “social” was a thing inside my company, I tried a few things out. One of them was an anonymous blog on the crappy old intranet in which I gently, but directly, skewered various big personalities and important people in the organization, through the voice of The Pundit.
The Pundit always referred to The Pundit in the third person. The Pundit was self-important and zealous, convinced of The Pundit‘s rectitude. The Pundit antagonized and poked colleagues throughout the world, trying to galvanize social discourse and watercooler chat that was visible to all. The Pundit was very edgy, a satirical representation of the back channel protagonists and gossip mongers that patrol the office corridors.
The Pundit, unsurprisingly, was a highly divisive character – hierarchy killing hero to some, rude and ridiculous troll to others.
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