This week in South Sudan all schools have been closed as the country faces an extreme heatwave: South Sudan shutters all schools as it prepares for an extreme heat wave This will unfortunately not...
Attempting unstructured digital workplace can be a painful experience
I often get asked: "What do you mean when you say 'you have to design a digital workplace' that enables effective anywhere-working?" Often the best way to answer this is to show an example of what a...
The impact of hybrid working
Take a look at the shift in sentiment from October 2021 to January 2022 Bay Area Council Employer Network: Return to Transit Tracking Poll Do not underestimate the impact of this major shift! For...
Lets analyse this in-person meeting
Every now and again it is a really good to pause and analyse how we do things. Is there a better way? A way that is kinder to people and the planet? Let's analyse the time and emissions required for...
Getting your head around asynchronous working
In our trainings, when we get to the part about what asynchronous work is and what it looks like in practice, we then share something like this, Comment source There are then often a lot of deep...
Insights from Dreamforce NYC
At the Dreamforce NYC event this past week during Brett Taylor's keynote he outlined how Salesforce sees the future of work. There were a couple of things about this worth highlighting. 1) The...
Forrester: Companies will fail at anywhere-work
This from their Predictions 2022 Europe insights Ten percent of companies will commit to a fully remote future. For the remaining 90%, vaccine mandates will lead to complications but won’t be the...
So is in-person working better?
Traditional in-person leadership teams consistently say in-person working is more effective. To which my comment is always “so how do you explain how the very successful office-less teams function?”...
How to cutdown on online audio/video meetings
Earlier this week I shared this about how fully distributed office-less businesses hire using Slack. The reaction from most traditional in-office teams when seeing this is “What!?” Here is another...
We are at a critical juncture
The science is very clear - the climate disaster is here (See this excellent piece of journalism using the current available science to inform on what happens next The climate disaster is here —...
The new normal — no office
Most startups going forward will be office-less. As a result they will be able to scale faster, have access to a global talent pool, be more agile and move faster than any physical office bound...
Work-from-anywhere prerequisite
A team must possess the skill to communicate and collaborate at distance as effectively as if they were sitting around a table in-person. It must be that seamless. This skill is often referred to as...