If the above reference sounds obscure, it’s from an old Rogers & Hammerstein musical that I was taken to as a child and every June, I simply cannot get it out of my head. It’s… Read more »
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Discovering the Human Future of Work – Virtual Event Notes & an invitation to join in the fun
Speculating about what’s next for the workplace has become quite the hobby. Will it be place-bound or not? Will AI take jobs or create new ones? How can we scale systems but retain our humanity? … Read more »
You Asked, We Answered: Questions from my live Coaching.com session
Well over 1,000 participants joined in live for my Coaching.com session, “The Permissionless Organization Has Arrived.” Many asked wonderful questions that we didn’t have time to get to in the session. Here are a select… Read more »
Bubble Bubble, Toil & Trouble and Some Brewing (see what I did there?) inflection points
We’ve been talking a lot about bubbles this month. An economic bubble happens when the market assigns a value to an asset that is disconnected from its true economic value. Mortgage CDO’s. Tulips. Dotcoms. You… Read more »
Will AI do to expert professions what the Model T did to railroads?
As economist Carlota Perez so eloquently lays out, systemic changes in technologies always lead to systemic changes in society. The winners in an old regime become the losers in a new one. With many predicting… Read more »
What the world needs now… is love and AI?
Paul LeBlanc, in his thought-provoking book “Broken,” shows how scaling removes humanity from many of our systems of care. AI might be the great unlock that would allow us to flood our systems with quality… Read more »
Revisiting the baby bust: Is “The Children of Men” prophetic?
“The Children of Men” is a dystopian 1992 novel by P. D. James about a world in 2021 when humanity is experiencing mass infertility. While we seem to have so far avoided such a dramatic… Read more »
Just add water? The fascinating prospect of “instant intimacy.”
For humans to create high-performing teams, traditional assumptions are that it takes a long time and goes through a predictable process (forming, storming, norming and performing). But in many of today’s most vital activities, time… Read more »
Thought Sparks Wrap Up — April 2024
Is 2024 going to be remembered as the year CHRO’s got a seat at the table? In the way that things seem to work post-pandemic, it’s wild to remember that just a month ago the… Read more »
Digital Slime, the Dead Internet, and Cory Doctorow’s great phrase
Much of the user excitement in the early years of the Internet came from the medium’s powerful way in which it eliminated constraints on human communication. You could find your friend from high school, let… Read more »
If it acts like a bubble, and sounds like a bubble, when will we realize it’s a bubble?
When inflated beliefs about future value come into conflict with actual underlying value, conditions are right to create a bubble. Housing prices will always go up! Having a dot.com in your name will always increase… Read more »
If you want a guarantee, buy a refrigerator!
The concept of purpose has been having quite a moment – from books heralding its importance to claims that it holds the key to the hearts and minds of Gen Z workers to claims from… Read more »