Remote working brings real benefits; I'm an advocate. Less commuting, wider talent pools, dead time reclaimed, and my kids now know me, but there's a robotic cost. We become governed by 30-minute slots, bouncing from call to call to keep the machine synchronised and moving. Sometimes
In my experience, it seems far easier for people working in technology and in the many disciplines that enable it to conceptualise and anchor to the systems and platforms that produce data products than to the data products themselves. That imbalance influences the efficacy of data in an organisation and
On Assent and Vocation. "Here, we can glimpse one of the Stoics' most fundamental attitudes: the delimitation of our own sphere of liberty as an impregnable islet of autonomy, in the midst of the vast river of events of Destiny" This powerful line from Hadot in his
Flow has been written about in many books, promoted as an enjoyable way of spending time. A time when your mind and body are at ease with their surroundings, wholly focussed on the task at hand. Time, rumination of the past, anxiety for the future all subside, replaced by the
“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment, and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. But it was right that it should be so; my eyes and heart acclaim it. I had to experience
I saw this painting online and thought it was poignant, something that we could hang in the hall so that in future years we can reflect on this period of our lives. It's an extraordinary time that in 100 years from now, our great-grandchildren will look back on
At some point these days if you work in transformation, in particular, digital transformation you will be involved in changing the archetype of the organisation, or at least some part of it. I think I’m fortunate to say that I’ve been involved in 4 significant transformations now, whilst
Memory Palaces, The Method of Loci Have you ever noticed it’s far easier to remember how to get somewhere than it is to recite something you’ve read? On one hand, we can hop in a car, pull out the drive and visualize the journey from start to finish
The Boulder to our North Star. Anyone wanting to create a future divergent from the status quo, tasked with setting a vision, standing out in front and saying “follow me” or looking inside themselves to become someone better than they currently are should empathise with the challenges faced by the
I found out from a colleague recently that in the new year, on February 6th it will be world retrospective day ( http://worldretroday.com/ ), who’d have thought such a thing existed? The cynical me immediately thought of all the other labelled days we have and following a brief google
That infinitely divisible moment of time that rests between perception and action was for Stoics the epicentre of their emotional intelligence, from where they were able to direct their volition through the puppet strings of an ethical hand. Where they tamed anger, found courage and took the perspective of true
Ethical Codes For a Digital Age. Thanks to colleagues I was the recent and fortunate recipient of a couple of tickets for Breakout17, an event focusing on ethical codes in the digital age (https://www.bora-co.com/). There were an array of speakers representing the majority of disciplines found within
Reflections
Horizons of Responsibility. We live in a world on the precipice of change, in general and fuelled by the constant connectedness of our lives anxiety is growing. Our media biases conflate the issue, the popularity of articles promoting fear compound themselves. Recently the media anxiety pumps have been working on
Systems
Continuous learning, feedback loops & chaos in containers. The prevailing focus in Digital Transformation is the journey, customer centricity and outside-in being amongst the most popular buzzwords. The need for companies to have an effective and emotionally intelligent digital relationship with customers perceived paramount to their survival. In order to
Praxis
In the complicated domain, we have an illusion of predictability, a projection forward in time of events yet to happen, architected in either the current or past, a snapshot of activities and a state with an associated benefit. In the complex world, we have flow, failure, exaptation and adaptation, like
Praxis
In his book on Servant Leadership Robert Greenleaf presents a principled call to conscience, an attempt to initiate modern leaders into practical wisdom and help them attain moral authority by learning to lead themselves before others and lead others through an egoless posture of serving. He had observed in his