I’ve been reading Gary Hamel‘s forthcoming new book, Humanocracy. He believes that the single most empowering (and profitable) thing that businesses can do is eliminate their creeping bureaucracy. He talks about how increasingly organisations are paralysed with red tape and bureaucracy. The end result is that they can’t get anything done. There are some clear…
“We think people want to be liked, but they need to be needed”. A thoroughly stimulating discussion here – that I’ve allowed to run long because it’s so interesting. I met a brilliant guy called Misha Byrne who worked for a company called NeuroPower. I was so taken with what he was talking about…
As discussed in the newsletter last week almost every business right now is working out what their new culture looks like – and in the absence of answers – commissioning experiments is pretty much the order of the day. There seems to be a societal simmer beginning to bubble over as a result of the…
Seth Godin, Matthew Syed, Adam Grant, Zeynep Ton – let these experts be your guide as we take you a course of inspiration to fix your work. Listen, share and discuss this selection of episodes. If you’re looking to fix your own work culture these episodes give you a course of listening to take your…
Tuesday and Thursday, see you there. BOOM!” A lot of us are starting to long for human contact again and the office feels like a happy place to be. But what does the office of the future look like? I chatted to the brilliant Antony Slumbers (follow him on Twitter here). Antony is regarded as…
The 12 Questions as a PDF Every firm in the world is going through the same challenges right now. They are asking themselves the same questions about what work looks like in the future. The problem for many is that their considerations are flitting between things that seem urgent at this moment, rather than exhaustive…
Sign up for Make Work Better Someone hit me up on LinkedIn a couple of weeks ago for feedback on their (incredible and timely) business idea (I’ll very willingly mention it when it gets closer to launch). Along the way they mentioned the research into The Strength of Weak Ties. The Strength of Weak Ties…
If you’re here, please do sign-up for the Make Work Better newsletter. It’s got everything you need to help navigate the changing world of work. Today’s episode is an opportunity to pick the brains of someone I’ve admired for a while. It’s a conversation with David D’Souza a director of CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and…
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