Tag Archives: Work

#FutureWork [Pt 3] – Qualifications into Capability

Posted on September 28, 2020 by

Jo enjoyed talking to grandad about the old days, when he had a career, although she was secretly glad not to have had one herself. The idea of doing all your education at the start without really knowing what ‘work’ … Continue reading →

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#FutureWork Stories [Pt 2] – ‘Management into Marketplace’

Posted on September 16, 2020 by

Anna is a member of the small Strategy Tribe in her Organisation: she comes out of a weekly meeting, held in the reconfigurable Hub, and meets Neharika for coffee. Virtual coffee. She shares the story of strategy that her Tribe … Continue reading →

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#FutureWork – a Series of Imperfect Essays

Posted on September 15, 2020 by

This week i’m sharing a short series of imperfect essays exploring aspects of the evolution of work, and the Organisations that it takes place within. Specifically, i am not trying to make this a coherent and congruent view: there may … Continue reading →

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Ways of Working: Perspective Shift

Posted on October 15, 2019 by

A great many Organisations have a focus on future ‘ways of working’: sometimes expressed as a future culture, sometimes as specific digital skills, often as an approach to innovation or change. These programmes represent the normalisation of change, and the … Continue reading →

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The Future of Work: Belief and Currency

Posted on July 15, 2019 by

Many Organisations are actively engaged in exploring the Future of Work: their drivers include a desire to optimise their physical footprint (and save costs), engage and retain the best talent, reclaim a lost agility of old (or find a new … Continue reading →

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Remnants

Posted on November 21, 2018 by

I spent last week driving through the Highlands, moving between fishing villages and towns, themselves a legacy of the Clearances, where rural populations were displaced by acquisitive land owners, appropriating the commons. The shoreside settlements thrived on salmon and herring, … Continue reading →

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A More Human Future Of Work

Posted on December 12, 2017 by

I’m using this week to clear a few ‘titles’ that have been waiting to be written. They have been languishing at the end of my document, waiting for their words to land. Today, a title that i wrote back in … Continue reading →

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12 Aspects of the Social Age

Posted on October 17, 2016 by

In the Social Age, everything has changed. The Social Contract between organisation and individual is fractured, the nature of work is changing, we’ve seen the democratisation of communication and the devolution of creativity, with the old structures of power and … Continue reading →

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Aspects of the #SocialAge – Part 4 – Boundaries Are Futile

Posted on August 4, 2016 by

In the old world there was a clear separation between formal and social aspects of our lives, between leisure and work. Today those boundaries are gone. We exist in a grey space: when networks, communities, influence, reputation, and stories themselves, … Continue reading →

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Separation of Space

Posted on June 21, 2016 by

Over dinner tonight, someone described their commute to work: he said he cycled out of the office, through the converted industrial district, former mills and warehouses, now upmarket advertising agencies and web designers, then over the bridge, through suburbia and … Continue reading →

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