Seth Godin writes about landlords and tenants. Tenants trade labour. Landlords build assets that grow when they’re not in the room. Most of my work has been rented out: consulting hours, delivery, presence, etc.. But the shift is happening. Podcasts, frameworks, the podcast learning festival, a new book outline I’m working on. These are assets.… Read More More landlord, less tenant
I was listening to Tom McDowall and Adam Lacey the other week talking about making podcasts work for training. Fifteen minutes later, I’d pulled out a clip, cut it, cleaned it, and turned it into this: It’s a great example of what happens when you structure conversations that people want to listen to. And that’s… Read More Proving concepts
Seth Godin recently wrote about “ghost cities” – systems that still stand, still run, still look like infrastructure, but no longer hold real life. In workplace learning, the ghost city isn’t the LMS or the framework itself.It’s the assumptions they were built on: Those assumptions haven’t been true for years and this is why clarity… Read More Ghost infrastructure
A study of 64 senior women leaders found something worth paying attention to – 87% said menopause didn’t disrupt their work. However, the difference wasn’t fewer symptoms, but the environment around them. They had: For all the men who are senior leaders out there, these aren’t “women’s issues”, they’re leadership conditions. If you’re a man… Read More Men & the menopause
I’ve been speaking with a lot of people recently across HR, OD, L&D and consultancy. Senior and experienced people who have led real change and real work. The same patterns keep coming up: This isn’t about capability and it isn’t that the work has disappeared but the context has changed. I’ve said this before but… Read More Strategic Ambiguity
Lost and Desperate 